Setting up Budgets and/or Forecasting
To set up Budgets or Forecasting for your SIMS:
- Go to Company Maintenance > Others.
- Decide which field (group, category, department) to use on the Y-Axis of the Stock Budgets matrix.
Budget Style (checking about its usage)
Y axis items to exclude
Locations to exclude
Budget List
The factor will be used as a ratio
Eg. In case of stock group 005, the locations 01 and 02 have a ratio of 2:3
Stock Budgets
This form will enable the user to view the stock budgets matrix
Reporting
When highlighting a purchase from the audit trail, the system will allow user to print stock budgets report.
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