The Component Planning section contains dashboards to manage forecast archiving for use in waterfall analysis. These dashboards can be used to review, compare, and analyze forecast accuracy by forecast delay. It uses a combination of dimensions, including product, product-customer, plan basis, and accuracy measurement.

The key components of the Component Planning section are: 

  • BOM Structure: Displays the details of the finished goods, multiple levels of BOM components, and their characteristics.
  • BOM Inputs: Enables you to review the bill of materials by displaying the details of the finished goods, multiple levels of BOM components, and their characteristics.
  • Component Planning: Helps determine the component requirement, and identify which finished goods are consuming that component.
  • Component Availability: Provides the details of the requirements, incoming receipts, and closing inventory. You can also compare the component demand to its available inventory.
  • MPS Viability: Provides details of any shortfalls for selected goods during the master production schedule.