The Forecast Planner works with one week at a time. Forecast weeks always start with the day of the week defined for the category being viewed. Once you select a week here, the forecast factors display is labelled in relation to the selected week. The week you select is relevant for viewing, generating or editing a forecast.
To define the forecast week choose one of the following options:
- Previous Forecast Week - The forecast week before the current forecast week
- Current Forecast Week - The forecast week that contains today
- Next Forecast Week - The forecast week after the current forecast week
- Same Week Last Year - The week that is 52 weeks before the current forecast week
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Note: The week that is 52 weeks before the current week may appear quite different from the current week. For example, April 15 may be part of the week April 15-22 this year, but it may have been part of the week April 8-15 last year.
- Select Forecast Week - You can select any week. Ensure that data is imported for the selected week
- Click Select Forecast Week.The current month appears.
- If the desired forecast week is in the current month click any day in that week
- If the desired forecast week is not in the current month navigate to the month as follows, then click any day in the desired forecast week:
- To navigate by month into the past or the future click the
- To navigate to a month in any year in the past or the future, click the month name, then click the