Another planner has previously created a supply plan, but you now need to make some changes so that you can do some 'what-if' analysis. How can you go about duplicating this plan?
Should value in Adjusted Shipments Forecast measure always be equal to the Final Shipments Forecast measure?
Demand is high leading up to the Christmas holiday every year between Dec 20 and Dec 24 and not on Christmas day (Dec 25). Your customer has two demand plans. Describe the steps to model Christmas causal factor in both demand plans.
Which release recommendation parameter can you utilize to govern the behavior of the auto-release process?
Your client uses product categories and global sourcing rules for supply planning. However, their newest product doesn't follow these rules. For a specific item in the category, it needs to be sourced from a different supplier globally.
How should they set this up for the easiest maintenance, going forward?
You are setting up the plan page layout for your customer.
In which of these requirements would you use an Infotile?
You are a demand planner and you want to generate forecast for all laptop and desktop products in the US business unit. You are using standard enterprise and product hierarchy. You have created a demand plan and now you must define plan scope.
Identify three valid steps. (Choose three.)
Your client has operations in the west coast of the US. If the customer is in the western half of the US, then they would like to ship the product from their warehouses. If it's in the eastern half of the US, then they want to drop ship it from a supplier.
How would you recommend they set the assignment up?
Segmentation was last run many months ago and the replenishment planner is concerned about losing track of items whose policies get changed due to the upcoming resegmentation. There are also a lot of manually assigned segments that must be preserved. Which two approaches for Execute Segmentation should you use in this planner?
Which four types of items are eligible to be included as Supply Planned Items in the Supply Plan? (Choose four.)
You just ran a Data Collection and want to confirm that certain data was successfully collected. Identify three collected data sets that can be viewed on the Maintain Supply Network Model Page. (Choose three.)
Which three options represent predefined hierarchies in Planning Central? (Choose three.)
You want to be able to filter your data by the planner code attribute on the item. Where can you go to do this?
As part of the agreement with one of our suppliers, you are supposed to order product by the 100s. But if the required supply is only 149, how many should be planned to purchase, and which item attribute will cause this to happen?
When running the Publish Order Forecast scheduled process, what is the minimum set of parameters needed to publish additional measures such as requisition and purchase order data?
Which statement order is NOT true about how to effectively address demand at risk?
The supply plan is not very reliable. Components often arrive early or late. A team of planners, buyers, marketers, product engineers, and materials managers are tasked to investigate. They list several possibilities that could explain their plan’s poor results.
If you were a member of the investigation team, which step would you recommend to help troubleshoot this serious issue?
During a client implementation, it is determined that an external forecast will need to be imported into Planning Central for use as a Demand Schedule in a Supply Plan.
What three steps must be executed to enable the successful load of the External Forecast file? (Choose three.)
During Implementation of Planning Central, your client has discovered that no Material Planners have been defined in Manage Material Planners in Planning Central.
In this situation, which three statements are true? (Choose three.)
During an implementation, customer is in the process of planning supply requirements. Customer also needs to generate forecast and safety stock levels. Which plan type on the plan options should the customer be running?
A customer has created a supply plan based on current requirement. Due to changes in third party forecast, the plan must be rerun with these recent updates. However, while this new information became available, existing supply like on-hand inventory and work order completions have also been updated.
Which data refresh option should be used to reflect all these changes in the plan?
You plan to fulfill customer demand from internal organizations or from a contract manufacturer. Which are the four types of planned orders that can be generated?
Your client wants to utilize product categories on sourcing rules. They have created a new category for this and populated the items for it.
Where do they set up the category planning uses when evaluating sourcing rules?
A sales order containing a back-to-back item has been created. However, when you ran the supply plan in Planning Central, the supply for the sales order was not released. Why was the supply not released?
In which situation would Bills of Distribution be more effective than Sourcing Rules?
During implementation, the customer would like to use safety stock planning parameters. However, they would like to uncheck "Safety stock change interval to all items." What will the results be if they choose to uncheck this parameter?
Which is the proper fulfillment strategy to plan for supply using the appropriate lead times required for processing material at a third party, based on the manufacturing work definition?
You are in Implementation project and your customer is a global company with a complex supply chain network. Planners work across different geographies and different line of products. Each planner works with their own set of data and analysis and dashboards.
How do you configure the application so each planner can have their own custom dashboard view-able only to themselves?
Which type of data in the Supply Network Model is not collected, but is accessed through a view used by Planning?
Which KPIs are available to measure forecasting accuracy and specify how these measures aggregated from item-organization level to higher levels.