MFG/PRO 9.0 User Guide Volume 3: Manufacturing - QAD.com

Copying and Combining Forecasts
FORECASTING/MASTER SCHEDULE PLANNING 217
To create new forecasts by copying or combining existing detail records,
use Simulation to Simulation Copy (22.7.11) or Single Item Simulation
Copy (22.7.12).
These functions let you copy, replace, or combine forecast detail records.
With Simulation to Simulation Copy, you can copy forecast records for
multiple items in a single transaction, whereas with Single Item to
Simulation Copy you can copy only for a single item.
Note To manually adjust forecast detail records created using these
functions, use Detail Forecast Maintenance (22.7.7).
Multipliers
When copying or combining forecast detail records using Simulation to
Simulation Copy (22.7.11) or Single Item Simulation Copy (22.7.12), you
can apply multipliers to the resulting forecast quantities. Multipliers, also
called multiplicative factors, allow you to increase, decrease, or scale
forecast quantities by a specified percentage. Multipliers can be useful
when you have prior knowledge of an unscheduled demand, such as a
future sales promotion.
There are three types of multipliers:
• Base Increase/Decrease
• Scale
• Trend
Fig. 11.6
Simulation to
Simulation Copy
(22.7.11)
Ï See “Modifying
Forecast Results”
on page 215.