The Forecast Consumption section enables you to assume that actual sales orders reduce, or consume the forecasted quantities. It ensures that sales orders aren't treated as additional demand to the forecast during a planning period. It further provides alignment of the Consensus Plan output with actual demand to provide a mitigated demand requirement to supply.
The key component of the Forecast Consumption section is:
- Forecast Consumption: Helps you control how open customer orders will net off from the forecast. It shows the forecast from the Consensus Plan and open and past customer demand. This enables the Consensus Plan to be changed using one of the several ways to use it.
