Selecting Flow, Parts, Unit, and Sort Order—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 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 lesson is to show you how to select a flow and view forecast parts.

Windows:
Forecast Client

Selecting Flow, Parts, Unit, and Sort Order

  1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to Programs, and then click Forecast Client.
  2. Log on to the Demand Planning Client using appowner as the both the user ID and password. The forecast server should be the name of your computer.
  3. In the Flow ID list, select one of your flows.
  4. In the Unit list, click Inventory Value.
  5. In the Sort By list, click Description.
  6. In the Classification list, click Level.
  7. In the Part No list, select one of your parts. Note that some parts are marked with blue. These are the parts that match the selected classification.