Actual Demand

Actual demand is composed of customer1) In VMI, the tradi... orders (and often allocations of items, ingredients, or raw materialsCrude or processed m... to production or distributionOutbound logistics, ...). Actual demand nets against or consumes the forecastAn estimate of futur..., depending on the rulesDocumented definitio... chosen over a time horizon. For example, actual demand will totally replace forecast inside the sold-out customer orderAn order from a cust... backlog horizon (often called the demand time fence), but will net against the forecast outside this horizon based on the chosen forecast consumption rule.