S&OP Forecast Netting
Hello all, I am with JM Huber.
I'm wondering how the Forecast Netting works in S&OP cloud and if there is any "Forward or Backward Consumption Buckets" we can work with similar to Supply Planning cloud.
Description
We are currently setup for Demand Management cloud to publish an unconstrained forecast into S&OP cloud. S&OP cloud will then constrain the forecast based on any constraints on the supply side. S&OP cloud plans to Total Demand were Total Demand = max(Gross Forecast, Sales Order) + Dependent Demand at the item level. We are running into issues when the forecast for an item is in one month, but sales orders for the items are pushed or pulled by a few days causing them to be in a different month. For certain items that are only sold one month of the