No Period Limit/Consume Earliest Forecast

The Default Consume Forecast by Period Method is Don't Limit, and the Consume Earliest Forecast Demand option is selected.

You enter a sales order for 700 units to ship by 7/30/08.

The forecast that is earliest (the 6/01 forecast) is consumed first and moved to the sales order demand quantity.

The 6/01 open forecast quantity of 200 is insufficient to meet the sales order demand; 500 units remain. The next 200 units are consumed from the earliest remaining date (6/10), followed by the next earliest date (7/29), leaving 100 units to be consumed by the next earliest (7/30) forecast. Because only part of the open forecast quantity is consumed for 7/30, the 7/30 forecast is left with an open sales forecast quantity of 100.

Date	Open sales forecast	SO line demand
6/01/08	0	0
6/10/08	0	0
7/29/08	0	0
7/30/08	100	700
7/31/08	200	0
8/01/08	200	0
8/02/08	200	0
8/06/08	200	0