This program allows you to adjust the forecast for a sales promotion if you are anticipating an increase or decrease in demand for a specific period of time. The program calculates the period forecast for the item/warehouse combination defined by the selected keys in the Work with sales promotions routine.
Note: For the purpose of this example, the system will only calculate the forecast for the active warehouses for the key Item group.
Via the forecast generation program you can also follow up on the result of promotion campaigns.
- Select the Work with sales promotions menu item.
- On the initial panel, select the applicable sales promotion that has a connected item related key and click Forecast det.
- You access Work with sales promotions, Forecast details. Click the Generate forecast details function key.
- You access Work with sales promotions, Generate forecast details. Complete the following fields:
- Estimated % increase
- Enter the estimated increase percentage.
- Estimated qty inc
- Enter the estimated increase/decrease in quantity.
- Actual % increase
- Enter the actual increase percentage for the item/warehouse/period combination showing the actual outcome after the end of the specified period.
- Note: When you enter a value in this field for the first time, it should be the same percentage as the estimated increase.
- Caution: This field is completely manually handled in this version of DC1. See Regenerate a forecast connected to a sales promotion for more information.
Click OK to update. You will receive a message when the forecast is generated in the system. Click Refresh and exit the routine.