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Forecast Page (Fields)
Filter Table (Upper Table)
The upper portion of the page lets you define criteria that will narrow the number of records that are displayed in the lower portion of the page. The following describes the fields that appear in the upper portion of the page.
Field
Description
Part
Uses the part number as filter criteria.
Location
Uses the location where the part is stored as filter criteria.
Forecast Stream
Uses the forecast stream used to calculated the forecasted demand as filter criteria.
Part Type
Uses the part category as filter criteria.
Location Type
Uses a user-defined location type (for example, Central, Manufacturing, or Repair Facility) as filter criteria.
Display Options
Units - Displays the filter results in units (for example, quantities of parts).
Value - Displays the filter results in terms of monetary value.
Part Family
Uses the part family (for example, Manufactured Component or Stage 1) as filter criteria.
Region
Uses the name of the region associated with the location as filter criteria.
Results Table (Lower Table)
The following describes the fields that could appear on the page depending on how it is configured.
Field
Description
Annual Forecast
The annual forecasted demand for the SKU.
Forecast Stream
The forecast stream used to calculated the forecasted demand.
History Standard Deviation
A measure of historical demand variability over a specified number of time slices, calculated from either the raw demand history as downloaded from the host system or after being de-seasonalized.
If the forecast parameter Std Deviation - Use de-seasonalized and de-trended history is set to Yes, History Standard Deviation is computed using deseasonalized/detrended history. Otherwise, raw demand history data is used.
HistorySD = SQRT((SUMSQ(values) - (SUM(values)^2)/COUNT(values))/(COUNT(values) - 1))
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The number of slices used in the History Standard Deviation calculation depends on the forecast parameter Ignore demand before first non-zero slice and the global setting DMDHIST_USE_FIRST_FOUND.
Location Description
The description of the location for the SKU.
Location Name
The name of the location for the SKU.
Part Name
The name of the part for the SKU.
Part Number
The number of the part for the SKU.
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