Understanding Detail Forecast Revisions

After you generate and review a forecast, you can revise the forecast to account for changes in consumer trends, market conditions, competitor activities, marketing strategies, and so on. When you revise a forecast, you can change information in an existing forecast manually, add or delete a forecast, and enter descriptive text for the forecast.

You can access the forecasts that you want to revise by item number, branch/plant, forecast type, or any combination of these elements. You can specify a beginning request date to limit the number of periods.

As you revise the forecast, be aware that these combinations must be unique for each item number and branch record:

• Forecast type

• Request date

• Customer number

For example, if two records have the same request date and customer number, they must have different forecast types.