You can choose whether to have the system generate a tactical order forecast along with the standard tactical forecast for directly supplied locations. Similar to the tactical forecast, the tactical order forecast shows detailed data for orders where an outside vendor delivers products directly to the stores, bypassing the normal distribution center.

The tactical order forecast calculates projected or future order proposal line items for a location product, based on such data as the forecasted consumption, current stock on hand, open receipts and goods issues, scheduling, and rounding information. It also considers the fully optimized quantity of the currently planned order proposal as an open receipt.

This forecast includes such information as:

You can choose the detail level for the forecast: detailed, cumulative, or both. When the tactical order forecast detail level is set to Cumulative the tactical order forecast of the directly supplied locations is cumulated by period by product.

For the tactical order forecast, one period is one week. If there are several future orders planned for a given week, the forecast shows the total of these orders.

The FRP module performs the calculation for the tactical order forecast. FRP checks whether the forecast horizon is long enough to provide the CPFR tactical order forecast for the desired horizon; if it is not long enough to generate the operational forecast necessary for the tactical order forecast, the system generates an exception message.

FRP stores this forecast data in the time series. The system uses key figure parameter ORD_FC to store data for the Tactical Order Forecast report in the database table /FRE/TS_OFCST. Within CPFR, system uses the special key figure parameter ORD_FC_CPFR to retrieve the tactical order forecast by vendor and product.