According APICS; Procurement: The business functions of procuremnt planning, purchasing, inventory control, traffic, receiving, incoming inspection, and salvage operations.
Demand: A need for a particular product or component. The demand could come from any number of sources, e.g., customer order or forecast. an interplant requirement, or a request from a branch warehouse for a service part or for manufacturing another product. At the finished goods level, demand data are usually different from sales data because demand does not necessarily result in sales; i.e., if there is no stock, there will be no sale. Resulting i.m.h.o. that Procurement is used at the action part, and Demand is used at the planning part. The procurement done will be input for the planning and generates demand. ------------------------ Jan www.veritos.nl www.supportandmaintenance.org -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48530#48530 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
