This section provides overviews of the operation planning business process components, lists the forms associated with each business process component, and discusses the tasks associated with each business process component.

Identify and aggregate requirements

Master planning

Material requirement planning

Communicate plans

Operation planning business process component forms

The following table lists the forms that support the operation planning business process component. The table entries are organized by business process component task and then alphabetically by form name.

Note Note

Some forms in the following table require information or parameter settings to navigate to them.


Business process component task

Form name

Usage

Identify and aggregate requirements

Forecast scheduling

Calculate forecast requirements and generate planned orders for all items or for selected items in the Forecast planthat you specify.

Gross requirements, schedule forecast

Requirement profile- View the current requirement information that was calculated for an item.

Import forecast

Import external sales forecast data into your Microsoft Dynamics AX database from the Microsoft Dynamics Demand Planner.

Purchase forecast

Create and view purchase forecast lines for items, item groups, vendor accounts, and vendor groups.

Sales forecast

Create and view sales forecast lines.

Master planning

Master scheduling

Calculate the master schedule requirements, and generate planned orders for the selected item.

Net requirements, schedule

Requirement profile- View the current requirement information that was calculated for an item.

Planned production orders

Planned orders- View and process planned production orders.

Material requirements planning

Planned production order

Planned orders- View and process planned purchase, transfer, and production orders.

Communicate plans

Change planned order type

Change the type for the planned order.

Firming

Firm planned orders.

Group selected planned orders

Combine several planned orders for the same item in one planned order.

Planned production orders

Planned orders- View and process planned purchase, transfer, and production orders.

Planned purchase orders

Planned orders- View and process planned purchase, transfer, and production orders.

Planned transfer orders

Planned orders- View and process planned purchase, transfer, and production orders.

Split

Create two planned orders from an existing planned order.