Defining Schedule—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
Entering General Server Data
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
set
up general server data for your server ID.
Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setup
Forecast Server
- Register the necessary basic data for your server ID.
- Save your changes.
General exercise for Entering General Server Data
Defining Flows
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
define a
base flow for your server ID.
Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setup/Base
Flows
Forecast Server
- Create a non-master base flow for your forecast server ID.
- Save your changes.
General exercise for Defining Flows
Entering Period Version
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
set
up a period version for your server ID.
Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setup/Period
Version
- Create a period version for your server ID. Demand will be
aggregated and a forecast created in period unit defined in period version.
- Save your changes.
General exercise for Entering Period Version
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to
create a
schedule for the processes in the forecast cycle.
Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setup/Scheduling
Forecast Server
- Open the
Demand Plan Server Setup window, and query (F3) for
your server ID.
- Click the
Scheduling tab.
- In the Job list, click Qualify.
- In the Schedule Type list, click Monthly.
- Under Time Parameters, enter today's date in the Schedule Date field.
Also enter a time earlier than the present time in the Schedule Time field.
- Under Only Job Qualify, enter 12 in the Number of
Periods field. Enter 10 in both the In field and the
Out field.
- Save your changes (F12).
- Repeat steps 2–5 and then step 7 for the Aggregate Daily process but with
schedule type daily and a schedule time values later then the
Qualify job.
- Repeat steps 2– 5 and then step 7 for Create Forecast process but
with schedule type Monthly and a schedule time later then the Qualify job.
- If the Demand Plan Server is running, close it by double-clicking the Demand
Plan Server icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
- On the File
menu, click Exit. You are prompted to indicate whether you
want the changes to be uploaded to the database.
- Click No.
- If the Demand Plan Server is not running, click the Start
button on the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, and then click
Forecast Server. The server starts automatically, and begins to
process your schedule.