Qualifying 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 and site.

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 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 Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to manually qualify parts that match flows and qualification parameters.

Windows:
Demand Plan Server Setup
Forecast Server

Qualifying Parts

  1. Double-click the Demand Plan Server icon in the lower right corner of the screen to exit the Demand Plan Server. On the File menu, click Exit and then click Yes.
  2. Open the Demand Plan Server Setup/Base Flows tab.
  3. Select your flow, right-click, and then click Change Flow Definition. Under Change Options, click Delete Parts, and then click OK (this operation is for simulation purposes only).
  4. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button, point to Programs, and click Forecast Server to start the Demand Plan Server.
  5. Double-click the Demand Plan Server icon in the lower right corner of the screen to open the Demand Plan Server. On the File menu, click StopServer.
  6. On the System menu, click Qualify Parts.
  7. In the No of Periods to Run Qualify field, enter 24. 
  8. In the Number of Transactions in Range to Get In field, enter 10.
  9. In the Number of Transactions to Get Deleted field, enter 10, and click OK to start the qualify parts process. When the process finishes, information appears in the Demand Plan Server window about the number of parts added and deleted.