Does anyone have experience in the use of time buckets and demand fences for forecasting in advanced planning. Visual version 6.5.3.
Visual does not 'consume' MPS from previous buckets as other traditional MRP systems do. Thus if you put a forecast in each bucket and you use demand fence 2 (set MPS on greater of actual demand v forecast) you can finish up with an overall MPS which is too high.
ie if actual demand all falls into one bucket instead of being evenly spread, you are generating material requirements for both forecast and actual demand.
How do others cope with this in Visual?
Thanks
Elaine
