Forecast quantities may require modification to be more reflective of future market demand. This is especially true when forecast results are based on historical data that included unprecedented sales—for example, sales due to a sales promotion or a natural disaster. When you believe that future demand will not be similar to sales history, you can adjust existing forecast detail records accordingly.

You can use Detail Forecast Maintenance (22.7.7) to modify forecast detail records produced by forecast calculations or loaded into the system using the CIM interface.

Select a forecast detail record to modify by specifying a forecast ID and forecast year. To select a forecast detail record created for a product group, you must also specify an item number.

Forecast detail records display in three columns:

The quantities in the Orig. Fcst column are the original forecast quantities, either the result of the system forecast calculation or the original quantity you manually entered or loaded.

You can modify the forecast as needed by changing the quantities in the Adjusted Forecast column.