The application configuration section allows a user (typically an administrator) to manage the Demand Planning app settings at a global level to act as the system's default settings.
The key components of the application configuration module are:
- Global Parameters: Enables an administrator to manage the Demand Planning app settings at a global level. Each section of this page defines system default settings for each stage of demand planning.
- Manage Scenarios: Helps you to manage scenarios and classifications used for demand planning. Any scenarios added here, are used in other parts of demand planning alongside the context selectors.
- Lists - Create Empty Placeholders: Allows you to manage blank list items for use in various lists.
- Lists - Delete Orphans: Enables you to identify and delete all items that have been disconnected from their parent record.
- Seasonality - Manage Periods: This page helps you to manage a list of generic time periods used for analyzing seasonality. Planning periods are defined time intervals used for all planning data, that you can adjust the periods to match your business calendar.
- Commercial Planning - Manage 2nd Tier: This page allows you to manage second-tier customers in the commercial plan.
- Marketing - Input Product Disaggregation: Enables you to manage fixed disaggregation percentages.
- Marketing - Input Customer Disaggregation: Helps user manage a set of percentages for use in disaggregating the marketing plan in the customer hierarchy.
- NPI/EOL - Manage Launch Curves: Enables the user to manage launch curves for use in NPI planning.
- NPI/EOL - Manage Ramp Down Curves: Allows you to view, create, and edit end-of-life (EOL) curves by product and customer.
- NPI/EOL - Manage Launch Periods: It helps you to manage the list of generic periods used for NPI and EOL planning.
- Opportunities - Manage Stages: Allows you to manage opportunity planning stages. You can name, define, and manage the lifecycle opportunity stages to align with the stages used by the customer.
- Promo - Manage Curves and Daily Splits: The page helps you manage a repository of promotion uplift curves, and control how a periodic base commercial plan splits into days.
- Top Down - Input Disaggregation %s: Enables you add fixed percentages when disaggregating higher-level demand planning overrides.
- Filtering - Manage Time Filters: Allows the user to manage the available time filter choices and manage which pages these filters apply to.
- Filtering - Manage Customer Filter: Enables user to manage the available customer filter.
- Filtering - Manage My Customer Filter: This page enables you to manage the my customer filter option.
- Filtering - Manage Product Filter: This page helps you manage the custom product filter options.
- Filtering - Manage My Product Filter: Allows you to manage the my product filter options available.
- Alerts - Manage Demand KPIs: Enables you to manage how the KPIs are evaluated and prioritized in the exception/alert reports based on the selected options.
- Alerts - Manage Consensus KPIs: This page helps you to manage how the KPIs are evaluated and prioritized in the exception/alert reports.
- Alerts - Manage Workflow: It allows the user to set the configuration for demand and consensus planning workflows.
- Reporting - Manage Geo Map: Helps user to configure and manage geo mapping for a customer and location.
- Reporting - Manage Accuracy Time Ranges: This page enables you to review the forecast accuracy by time range and manage the definition of timeframes over which forecast accuracy is measured.
- Reporting - Manage Accuracy Targets: Allows user to manage forecast accuracy targets.
- Reporting - Manage Accuracy Settings: Helps you define how forecast accuracy is calculated when it's used in reporting.
