Enter Abnormal Demand

Explanation

This activity is used to define a customer order line as an abnormal demand. Meaning that the qty entered on this customer order line differs significantly from what is normal and it should therefore not be considered for certain planning activities.

You can define a customer order line as an abnormal demand by using one of the following alternatives:

1. By enter customer order lines as abnormal from the Customer Order window.
2. By enter customer order line as abnormal from the Customer Order Lines window.

Prerequisites

Inventory transactions created for the customer order line cannot be included in the process of aggregating these transactions into statistical periods. If that is the case it will not be allowed to change the setting for abnormal demand. The reason is that an update of abnormal demand will update transactions already created for this customer order (deliveries as well as returns).

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• If an order line is set to be an abnormal demand the transactions for this customer order line will be separated into normal issues and abnormal issues when aggregating these transactions into statistical periods.
• The abnormal demands are also excluded from calculation of deviation analysis for inventory parts and when performing classification of inventory parts.

Window

Customer Order

Related Window Descriptions

Customer Order
Customer Order Lines

Procedure

To set a customer order line as an abnormal demand in the Customer Order window:

1. Open the Customer Order window.
2. Create one or more order lines as appropriate.
3. Select the Abnormal Demand check box on one or more order lines as appropriate.

To set a customer order line as an abnormal demand in the Customer Order Lines window:

1. Open the Customer Order Lines window.
2. Populate or query for an order as appropriate.
3. Select the Abnormal Demand check box on one or more order lines as appropriate.