## JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Forecast Management Preface

This preface discusses:

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne products.

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application fundamentals.

- Common fields used in this implementation guide.

### JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Products

This implementation guide refers to these JD Edwards EnterpriseOne products from Oracle:

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing - PDM

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Management - Shop Floor

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Requirements Planning

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Project Costing

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capital Asset Management

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Quality Management

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement Management

- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Contract and Service Billing

### JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Application Fundamentals

Additional, essential information describing the setup and design of your system appears in a companion volume of documentation called JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management 9.0 Implementation Guide.

Customers must conform to the supported platforms for the release as detailed in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne minimum technical requirements. In addition, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne may integrate, interface, or work in conjunction with other Oracle products. Refer to the cross-reference material in the Program Documentation at http://oracle.com/contracts/index.html for Program prerequisites and version cross-reference documents to assure compatibility of various Oracle products.

See Also

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management Preface

### About This Documentation

A companion Guide called About This Documentation contains general information, including:

- Related documentation, common page elements, and typographical conventions for guides.

- Information about using guides and managing the documentation library.

- Information on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country and currency codes used within documentation.

- A glossary of useful JD Edwards EnterpriseOne terms that are used in documentation.

See Also

About This Documentation Preface

Using Implementation Guides

Managing the Online Library and Implementation Guides

ISO Country and Currency Codes

Glossary of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Terms

### Common Fields Used in This Implementation Guide

Address | Specify whether the system considers the address book number as part of the hierarchy or if the system retrieves the address book number from the business unit associated with the forecast.
Address Number | Enter a number that identifies an entry in Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Address Book system, such as employee, applicant, participant, customer, supplier, tenant, or location.
Alpha Name | Enter the text that names or describes an address.
Branch/Plant | Enter a code that identifies a branch or plant.
Company | Enter a code that identifies a specific organization, fund, or other reporting entity.
Effective Date | Enter a date that indicates when a component part goes into effect on a bill of material or when a rate schedule is in effect.
End Extract Date | Enter the ending date that the system uses when creating actuals.
Forecast Type | Enter the forecasting method used to calculate the detail forecast for a specific item. Forecast type is also used to summarize forecasts in the system. For planning bills, the forecast type is used to create forecasts for components when you explode planning bills.
Item Number | Enter the number that the system assigns to an item. The number can be in short, long, or third item number format.
Planner Number | Enter the address number of the material planner for this item.