"Decision Dynamics"
The data warehouse is in a perpetual . Every change to the raw data in the form of any transaction whatsoever is immediately reflected in the forecast and therefore you are continuously aware of your , and states.
Forecast data is accessed by a tumbling menu identical to the ex stock menu. This enables the manager/user to get forecast data by department, brand, category or sub-category. All forecast views can drill up to departments and drill down to product variants.
As well as forecasting for your business overall, you can forecast by customer. This is done by loading the customer you want to forecast for as the active customer, and then going through the same department, brand, category selection process. This gives forecast data specific to that customer.
When data is displayed at the product code level the following information is presented:
- product code and description
- Sales Last Year, Budget and Forecast
- Budget Year To Date, Year To Date and Month To Date
- Forecast out to 12 months forward - this is
- Reservations out to 12 months forward
- Actual sales current and back 12 months.
This information is dynamic and instantly updates with all activity in the system.
The forecast algorithms are configured using the , the and the .