Time Series Based Forecast Consumption vs Customer Sourcing

[Former Member]

Dear IBP Experts

In our current IBP setup, we work with a demand planning part that is focused on Product - Customer Levels. The final Consensus forecast is then 'sourced' via the standard Customer Sourcing setup in order to achieve Dependent Customer Demand on Prod-Loc-Cust Level. Then we use the S&OP Unconstrained Heuristic. We are now looking into the Forecast Consumption logic, but we have difficulties to combine this with our Customer Sourcing Logic.

Theoretically, we would work in following way:

1. Source the demand on product-customer level via Customer Sourcing in order to have forecast also on location level.

2. Perform Forecast Consumption on product-location level

3. Run the Heuristic.

However, this currently does not seem possible as the Heuristic (step 3. always performs Custom Sourcing again).

Any recommendation on how to use Forecast Consumption in our case?

Kristof

[former_member361260]

Hello

Has anyone been successful with the latest TS forecast consumption from 1805/1808? We are trying to consume at a level that is higher than Product/Location. Does this TS Forecast consumption support at a higher level or does it only support at a Product/Location level?