Aggregating Demand—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 general server data for your server ID.
Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setups
Demand Plan Server
- Set up a schedule for your server ID.
- Start the Demand Planning Server.
General exercise for Defining Schedule
Required Data
Create Demand
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how
to create a new
demand for a part within your flow. Later in the main exercise, you will aggregate
that demand and view its impact on the demand curve in the Demand Planning
Client.
- Create a material requisition for a part that matches the site in your
flow statement using the
- Select the material requisition line, right-click, and click Reserve.
Then click OK to reserve material from stock.
- Select the material requisition line, right-click, and click Issue.
Then click OK to issue material from stock.
General exercise for Handling Material Requisition
Main Exercises
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to show you how
to manually
aggregate a new demand into the flow and view the changes in the Demand Planning
Client.
Windows:
Demand Plan Client
Demand Plan Server
- Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar, point to Programs,
and click Demand Plan Client to open the Demand Plan Client.
- Log on to the client using Appowner as both the user ID and the password.
- In the Flow ID list, select the flow that includes the part
for which you created a material requisition.
- In the Part No list, select the specified part.
- Drag the cursor over the demand point for the current period to read
demand size up to today's date. Make a note of the quantity.
- On the File menu, click Exit.
- Double-click the Demand Plan Icon in the lower right corner of your
screen to open the Demand Plan Server window.
- On the System menu, click Aggregate Daily to start the
aggregation process.
- Open the Demand Plan Client and log on as you did in steps 1–2 above.
- In the Flow ID list, select the flow that includes the part
for which you created a material requisition.
- Drag the cursor over the demand point for the current period. Read the
demand size that the issued quantity has added
to the demand curve for the
current period.