Grouping Parts—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own Server ID in order to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other server id, you will compromise your exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated to your own server id.

Basic Data Setup

Defining Schedule

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up a schedule for the different steps in the forecast cycle.

Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setup/Scheduling
Forecast Server

  1. Set up a schedule for your server ID.
  2. Start the Demand Planning Server.

General exercise for Defining Schedule

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to select the flow and view forecast parts

Windows:
Forecast Client

Grouping Parts

  1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to Programs, and then click Forecast Client.
  2. In the Flow ID list, select one of your flows.
  3. On the Part menu, click Group to group all parts in the flow.
  4. In the Planner Buyer list, select a planner/buyer.
  5. In the Part No list, note that some parts are marked with blue. These are the parts that fit your current group selection. You can also view the number of parts in the current group in the Parts in Group field below the forecast graph.
  6. Add another group object to the planner/buyer, e.g., by selecting an ABC class in the ABC Class list. All active group objects can be used at the same time, in any combination. They can also be combined with part selections, e.g., Sort By and Classification.