Re: System 21 Forecasting

Jeff

Normally, you only need to transfer the full demand history once. If you do
it more than once, you would overwrite any demand experience smoothing you
may have performed. Demand experience for new items will be picked up when
you transfer the last period demand.

When forecasting a new item you may want to consider forecasting it manually
until you get enough demand experience to get a reasonable answer from the
methods JBA supplies.

Greg
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:30 PM
Subject: System 21 Forecasting


> Anyone Knowledgeable About System 21 Forecasting,
>
> We are attempting to implement the System 21 Forecasting application. In
> preparation, it is necessary to run 2/FCP (Transfer Full Sales History).
> According to JBA documentation: "This option is normally run once only (on
> setting the company up for the first time)." Under normal circumstances we
> would then run 3/FCP (Transfer Last Period History) monthly to update the
> prior period's sales activity. This option would appear to update any
items
> currently set up in the Forecasting Model.
>
> As we will be constantly adding and deleting items (with and without sales
> history) to our forecasting models, do we need to run 2/FCP monthly? Or,
> will running 2/FCP once, and subsequently running 3/FCP monthly update
> items added to the forecasting model during the past month? If we are to
> run 2/FCP more than once, how often can/should we run it?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeff Lang
> IS Manager
> General Fasteners Company
> Livonia, Michigan
>
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