Demand Signals
Demand that is not a forecast: a signed order, a likely quotation, a weighted opportunity, a dependent requirement. One place for a planning run to read demand from, and it can say where every unit came from.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Planning
- Section: Demand Planning
- Screen: Demand Signals
Address in the console: /scm/demand-signals
List · 11 columns · 16 fields on its form · 4 of them required · 1 action
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Name | Text | item_name |
| From | Status | signal_type |
| Reference | Code | reference_no |
| Customer | Text | account_name |
| Wanted | Date | required_on |
| Quantity | Number | quantity |
| Probability % | Number | probability_pct |
| Planned as | Number | planning_quantity |
| Firm | Yes or no | is_firm |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Item required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Warehouse | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Kind required | Choice | sales_order, quotation, opportunity, forecast, safety_stock, dependent, transfer, service, sample, contract, manual | |
| Sales order | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Quotation | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Opportunity | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Customer | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Reference | Text | ||
| Wanted on required | Date | ||
| Quantity required | Number | ||
| Unit | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Probability % | Number | A weighted opportunity is not a firm order and must not be planned as one. | |
| Priority | Number | ||
| Firm | Yes or no | ||
| Consumes the forecast | Yes or no | Without this a sold-and-forecast unit is planned twice. | |
| Status | Choice | open, planned, committed, fulfilled, cancelled, expired |
What you can do here
Collect from CRM and works orders primary
Pull real demand in
Asks for: Horizon (days) Include quotations Minimum probability % For warehouse
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.