The Analysis Workbench is where you create and modify scenarios. (See Working with Scenarios.) It displays the scenarios for each analysis type that the administrator assigned to you. You must be granted access to at least one analysis type to create scenarios.
Each analysis type represents a business area such as forecast consolidation, demand generation, capacity planning, or supply-and-demand alignment. Analysis types are represented by either a planning workbook or a data collection workbook, which are assembled from predefined planning worksheets, where you change plans and investigate the impact of changes on a default set of key metrics and assumptions.
You can perform the following tasks in the Analysis Workbench:
Specify summary information for scenarios, such as name, description, and priority
Change plan and actual data values in a scenario’s planning workbook and recalculate key metrics, key assumptions, and other measures. (Exceptions are highlighted in red.)
Compare recalculated key metrics, key assumptions, and the number and type of introduced exceptions to determine the effect of changes
When you click an analysis type in the Analysis Workbench, the sections discussed in Table 2 are displayed.
Table 2. Analysis Workbench Sections
to open the planning workbook and begin analysis.