Overview of DT Process

When you use the DT Cloud Service module, you follow this general iterative process to create and manage DT models:

• Data Setup. You define the categories to be used in the DT calculation.

• Data Filtering. You configure filters that remove input data that might cause errors in the calculation or that can lead to inaccurate or unreliable results.

• Similarity Calculation. You calculate similarities and assess the results of the calculation.

• Elasticity Calculation. You calculate the assortment elasticities and assess the results in terms of substitutable demand, which is the percentage of demand of a SKU that is retained when the SKU is deleted from the stores where it is selling.

• Escalation. When you are satisfied with your results, you can set the escalation path you can set the escalation path to fill in the holes for partitions whose DT models were removed during pruning by setting up a search path through the segment hierarchy and the location hierarchy. Then you can set a version of the DT model as complete.

• Manage Models. Use this tab to set time intervals for evaluating your results and to override the value for the maximum substitutable demand percentage.