Sales Orders Plus Forecast

This calculation process applies to Sales Orders Plus Forecast demand generation:

1. Determine the demand time fence:

   Calculate total gross requirements, by inventory item by date, as the quantity remaining greater than zero of all sales order line items with a delivery date less than or equal to, the demand time fence.

2. Determine the end date.
3. For each forecast period after the demand time fence and up to and including the end date:
   • Total, by inventory item by date, the quantity remaining greater than zero of all sales order line items with a delivery date greater than the demand time fence and less than or equal to the forecast period end date.
   • Total, by inventory item by date, the forecast quantity.
   • Create gross requirements as the sum of both sales order line item quantities and the forecast quantity.

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