Introduction

Demand Transference (DT) helps you to compare products based on their similarities in order to determine what, if any, products customers might buy if the product they want to buy is for some reason unavailable. In this way, planning and ordering can be optimized. DT calculates similarities by comparing the attributes of the two products. If you are using CDT in conjunction with DT, you also have available the similarities calculated by CDT, which are based on customer-supplied transaction data.

The DT Cloud Service module consists of three tabs: Overview, Generate Models, and Manage Models. You use the Overview tab to keep track of the status of each stage during the main work you do with the application within the Generate Models tab. You use the Manage Models tab to evaluate the demand elasticity results and override the Maximum Substitutable Demand Percentage value, if that is needed.