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This panel displays all the records for the selected sales promotion in item/warehouse/period sequence. If records are not displayed it means that a forecast has not been generated yet for the sales promotion. To do so, click Generate forecast details.
The purpose of this program is to allow 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, for any reason. The program calculates the period forecast for the item/warehouse combination defined by the selected keys in the Work with sales promotions routine.
Note: If you want to simulate the forecast and the calculation without generating any new records in the system, you can do this through the Forecast simulation program and the Forecast calculation simulation program.
Options
Function keys
| Generate forecast details | Generate forecast details. |
Selection fields
- Item
- Displays all items included in the individual promotion key code for the Item related key defined for the sales promotion. The items are sequenced per item/warehouse combination.
- Whs
- Displays the active warehouses per item/warehouse combination.
- Unit
- Displays the item unit per item/warehouse combination.
- Period
- Displays the valid periods retrieved from the Forecast file, one period at a time per item/warehouse combination.
- Est % inc
- Act % inc
- Est qty inc
- Act qty inc
Work with sales promotions, Forecast details (INVD04604)
On this panel you can change, delete or view the forecast details for the selected item/warehouse/period combination applied to the sales promotion displayed in the panel header. If you change the estimated or actual increase/decrease percentage, the system will recalculate the forecast for the item/warehouse/period combination next time inventory calculation is run.
The combination is retrieved through the key fields defined for the sales promotion in the Work with sales promotions routine. You can view the actual outcome for a specific period in terms of increase/decrease in demand in the Forecast file or via the Forecast simulation program.
- Promotion
- Displays the sales promotion code that you are currently working with.
- Item
- Displays the item code that you selected on the previous panel.
- Warehouse
- Displays the warehouse code for the selected item.
- Period
- Displays the period for the selected item/warehouse combination retrieved from the Forecast file.
- Estimated % increase
- This value can be changed. Enter the new estimated increase/decrease percentage (+ or -) by which the forecast should be adjusted.
- Actual % increase
- Estimated qty inc
- This value can be changed. Enter the new estimated increase/decrease quantity (+ or -) by which the forecast should be adjusted.
- Actual qty increase
- Unit
- Displays the item unit, but can be changed.