Guidelines for Improving Forecasting Performance

This topic provides guidelines for improving forecasting performance. Forecasting performance can vary from one company to another based on network bandwidth, server capacity, database tuning, and a variety of other variables. Investigate these possible causes whenever performance issues arise.

As a preemptive move, consider the following performance objectives for forecasting:

• Minimize the Number of Records in the Forecasting Table

• Minimize the Number of Participants

• Minimize the Duplication of Data

• Minimize the Complexity of the Forecasting Process

• Minimize the Number of Aggregation Levels