Hi Experts,
We got a requirement for demand planning and Forecasting in Business ByDesign system.
As per standard functionalities available in system, when ever we are running a demand plan, the system is picking up the actual demand from the history horizon specified and based on the forecasting model selected, it is calculating the data and is giving an output. This output is based on the Months (Independent variable)and Actual Sale (Dependent Variable) of the history horizon and the output would be Actual Sale (Dependent Variable) that is the foretasted figure in Months(Independent variable) of the future horizon
Sales in History Horizon
| Months | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
| Actual Demand | 100 | 250 | 150 | 90 | 200 |
Forecasted Sales in Future Horizon
| Forecast Horizon | Dec | Jan | Feb | March | Apr |
| Forecasted Sale | 158 | 170 | 154 | 154 | 167 |
But, the requirement is that, as per their business model they would be running the demand plan and Forecasting, they would be considering with three variables from the History horizon, which are
1) Actual Demand (Sales)
2) Promotion time in minutes
3) Price of the product
at the same time they would pre- plan the promotion time and price of the product for the future months and forecast the sale.
| History Horizon Months | Actual Sales | Promotion time in Minutes | Price of the product |
| July | 686 | 361 | $ 148.00 |
| Aug | 2599 | 1368 | $ 148.00 |
| Sep | 2455 | 1292 | $ 148.00 |
| Oct | 1841 | 969 | $ 148.00 |
| Nov | 2298 | 1210 | $ 118.00 |
| Forecast Horizon Months | Forecasted Sale | Planned Promotion time in Minutes | Price of the product |
| Dec | ??? | 1310 | $ 118.00 |
| Jan | ??? | 1400 | $ 130.00 |
| Feb | ??? | 800 | $ 130.00 |
| Mar | ??? | 3000 | $ 125.00 |
| Apr | ??? | 2500 | $ 125.00 |
Is there any standard process or a possible work around to get this done.
Thanks in Advance
Chaitanya