Setting up Budgeting and Forecasting in SIMS

Setting up Budgets and/or Forecasting

To set up Budgets or Forecasting for your SIMS:

  1. Go to Company Maintenance > Others.

  2. 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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