Product Unit Demand History Entry (IM64)

The Maintain Unit Demand History (IM64) program can be used to adjust the 24 months of regular and flyer demand unit history by warehouse/product. As a by-product of entering new orders, demand unit history is updated. This history is used by the Purchasing system to create suggested purchase orders. This maintenance is typically not required unless an unusual sales transaction occurs that causes a spike or dip for a particular month.

• For example, booked sales for a particular item are normally 50 - 100 for any given month. One month a customer wants to use up their budget so they buy 200 of this particular item. This should not be reflected for future forecasting. The amount can be changed using this program to reflect what would normally be sold, i.e. to smooth out the spikes or dips.

The program allows you to maintain two sets of demand history: Regular demand and Flyer demand.

• Regular demand represents the total demand for a product in any given month, including sales resulting from flyers.

• Flyer demand represents the flyer portion only of the total demand for a product.

Click on the links above above for more information on each of the folders in IM64.