This is a great article which has really helped me understand the forecast consumption options in AX. However, I am stuck dealing with past-due forecasts. I am using the Dynamics AX Generate statistical baseline forecast to generate a monthly forecast prediction. Once I review, publish and import my forecast changes from excel to AX the forecasts are imported on the first day of the forecast month. This is a simple distribution business which only wants to forecast sales by month with no further granularity. Sales orders are usually entered through EDI or manually 4-5 days before they ship. When running master scheduling on or after the first day of the month the forecast is now considered past due. As sales orders are created day after day for different customers MRP calculations are constantly creating planned orders for small quantities to account for the sales order being created as they are not consuming the past-due forecast. Is there some setup that can mitigate these past-due forecasts without creating more work for the planner? (ie they don't want to start managing weekly or daily forecast numbers.