The Demand Planning module provides the following procedures:

Customer Orders  This procedure provides methods for viewing and updating database information on the customer orders table and data file maintained by the user.  The database table Customer Orders contains the customer orders that are loaded from the data file CustOrd.dat and maintained using these methods. 

Demand History   This procedure provides methods for viewing and updating database information on the demand history table and data file maintained by the user.  The database table Demand History contains the demand history from past shipments that is loaded from the data file DemHist.dat and maintained using these methods. 

Demand Forecasts  This procedure provides methods for viewing and updating database information on the demand forecast table and data file which is user-generated.  A Statistical Smoothing method is also provided in this procedure for updating and Viewing these forecasts.  The database table Demand Forecasts contains the demand forecasts that are loaded from the data file DemFcst.dat and  maintained using these methods.