Establishing the Service Shipment Plan
You need to set the service shipment plan, which is the expected product ship/sales forecast at the highest level. The service shipment plan determines the forecast for the install base growth.
1. From the Analysis menu, select Lifecycle and click Manager. The Lifecycle Manager page appears. Select the product.
2. The following rows of information are provided to help you determine what you want the service ship plan to be:
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Company Ship Plan
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A plan created from an external source typically other software and downloaded via the Gateway. If can be edited in Servigistics.
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Like Prod Actual
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The actual shipments of the selected like product.
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Product Group Average
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The computed average of the shipments by time slice for products in the same group.
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Product Line Average
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The computed average of the shipments by time slice for products in the same line.
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3. Using this information, enter the values for the service ship plan in any of the following ways:
◦ Enter the values manually in the Service Ship Plan row, box by box.
◦ If you want to copy values from a different row to the Service Ship Plan row, select the button to the left of the row and click the Process Changes button 
. Once the values are copied to the Service Ship Plan row, you can edit them.
. Once the values are copied to the Service Ship Plan row, you can edit them.◦ To adjust the percentage of all the values in the Service Ship Plan row, enter a percentage in the Adjustment % box and click the Process Changes button . For example, if you wanted to increase all of the values in the Service Ship Plan row by 50%, you would enter 50 in the Adjustment % box and click the Process Changes button. This would change a value of 200 to 300.
. For example, if you wanted to increase all of the values in the Service Ship Plan row by 50%, you would enter 50 in the Adjustment % box and click the Process Changes button. This would change a value of 200 to 300.Note that as you change values for the Service Ship Plan row, the Install Base Forecast row is updated.
4. When have finished the service ship plan, click the Save button 
to save your new values.
to save your new values.5. Click the Upload button 
to upload the new values to the host system.
to upload the new values to the host system.