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  • Customer Level

  • Customers/Product Level

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  • Combination of both if Customer Level (Targets) and Product Level (Forecasts)

Targets - This These are entered at the start of the year and can not be modified there after.

Forecasts - Theses Entered at the start but these can be edited modified for future months, the current and previous months can not be enteredchanged.

My Analytics

An overview of all Customers who have budgets is available under the Customer Profiles tab and then click the Customers Sales Target & Forecasts panel, This shows:

  • Customer (with hyperlink to customer detailed page)

  • Actual Invoiced Sales

  • Target Value

  • Forecast Value

    • (Theses are all based on the Accounting Year and the selected Reporting Up to Month)

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Customer Page

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If the system is set to Customer Only Level there is also a grid showing the product level sales totals for the selected Reporting Upto Up to Accounting month.

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If the system is Customer/Product Level this grid also shows if your up / down on your current Target and Forecasts based on the sales invoices values for each product.is

There is a hyperlink to drill down further into the selected Products Sales for each month.

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Customer/Product drill down data-grid by accounting month:

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Editing Customer Forecast

  • For Customer only level there is a blue Edit button that allow users with correct permissions to edit the Future Forecasts for the accounting year. (Current and previous months can not be changed)

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  • For Customer/Product level there is an Edit hyperlink (last column) on each Product.

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  • Export has the option of:

    • Export Current Data

    • Export a templates based on current year

    • Export a template based on previous year.

  • For Customer level only Import Format is as follows if you want to enter one amount for the whole year and the import will automatically divide the amount across all 12 months.

    • Customer_ID

    • Forecast_Year

    • Target_Sales_Value

    • Forecast_Sales_Value

  • For Customer level only having separate Targets and Forecasts for each month, this has two import formats:

  • Format 1 - An Excel row one per customer and month.

    • Customer_ID

    • Forecast_Date (one record per accounting month)

    • Target_Sales_Value

    • Forecast_Sales_Value

  • Format 2 - An Excel row one per customer and the 12 Target and Forecasts months as columns.

    • Customer_ID

    • Forecast_Year

    • Target_Period1

    • Target_Period2

    • Target_Period3

    • Target_Period4

    • Target_Period5

    • Target_Period6

    • Target_Period7

    • Target_Period8

    • Target_Period9

    • Target_Period10

    • Target_Period11

    • Target_Period12

    • Forecast_Period1

    • Forecast_Period2

    • Forecast_Period3

    • Forecast_Period4

    • Forecast_Period5

    • Forecast_Period6

    • Forecast_Period7

    • Forecast_Period8

    • Forecast_Period9

    • Forecast_Period10

    • Forecast_Period11

    • Forecast_Period12

  • For Customer/Product Level Import Format is as follows:

    • Customer_ID

    • Product_ID

    • Forecast_Date (one record per accounting month)

    • Target_Qty

    • Forecast_Qty

    • Sales_Price

    • Cost_Price

Please note: The Target_Sales_Value and Forecast_Sales_Value are automatically calculated based on the Qty multiplies by the Sales_Price.

  • Imports are from the first sheet in the Excel document, usually this is called Sheet1

  • Importing will update existing records if they already exist otherwise they are added.

  • There is an import preview data-grid before finally committed the import.

  • There is also a Delete All option that will clear and remove all records (use with care)