Actual Demand

Actual demand is composed of customer1) In VMI, the trading partner or reseller, i.e., ... orders (and often allocations of items, ingredients, or raw materialsCrude or processed material that can be converted ... to production or distributionOutbound logistics, from the end of the production...). Actual demand nets against or consumes the forecastAn estimate of future demand. A forecast can be co..., depending on the rulesDocumented definitions of how work is to be perfor... chosen over a time horizon. For example, actual demand will totally replace forecast inside the sold-out customer orderAn order from a customer for a particular product ... backlog horizon (often called the demand time fence), but will net against the forecast outside this horizon based on the chosen forecast consumption rule.