Import Customer Schedule Plan Demand for Level 1 Part
Explanation
Use this activity to import a user-specified set of customer
scheduling plan demands that have been generated in IFS/Customer Scheduling.
This activity allows you to represent plan demands from Customer Scheduling as
forecasts in Master Scheduling.
Prerequisites
This activity requires the existence of a Level 1 Part that has an associated set of
plan demands in IFS/Customer Scheduling.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, the system imports a set of customer plan demands from
IFS/Customer Scheduling for the specified Level 1 Part. The results appear
as forecast data in the
Register Forecast tab of the
MS Level 1 Part window..
Window
Import Customer Schedules
MS Level
1 Part
Related Window Descriptions
Import Customer Schedules
MS Level 1 Part/Register Forecast
Procedure
- In IFS/Customer Scheduling, verify the existence of the plan demands that you want to
import.
- Open the Import Customer Schedules dialog box.
- In the Site field, either accept the default value or enter another site for the Level 1
part for which to import plan demands or type in a value or use the
List button to
select from a list of available sites.
- In the Part No field, type in a part number or use the
List button to select
from a list of available parts.
- In the Customer field, type in a customer ID number or use the
List button to
select from available customers. If you leave this field blank, the system will select all
available customers.
- In the To MS Set field, either accept the default value or enter the number of
another MS set.
- In the Begin Date field, either accept the default value or enter another date on which
you want to begin importing plan demands for the Level 1 part. If you
leave this field blank, the system will import data from the earliest plan demand from the
day after the demand time fence date through the End Date.
- In the End Date field, enter the date on which you want to stop importing plan demands
for the Level 1 part. If you leave this field blank, the system will import data from the
Begin Date through the date of the latest plan demand.
- In the Forecast Distribution group box, click the
As Is or
Weekly
radio button.
- In the Process group box, click the
Background or
Online
radio
button.
- If desired, select the check box at the bottom of the dialog box. This tells the system
to import plan demands that are inside the planning time fence date.
- Click OK. The system imports the plan demands for the specified site, part, and
customer within the selected time span.
- If the import process is being done in the background, view its progress in the
Background
Jobs window.
- When the import process is complete, view the forecast data in the Register
Forecast tab of the MS Level 1
Part window.