How to: Set Up Locations for Forecast

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To set up a location for Forecast

To maintain additional dimensions for all Forecast locations

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Items and locations need to be set up to be used by Forecast. The Retail Item Card and the Location Card hold specific fields to activate the usage.

To set up a location for Forecast

A few parameters in Location must be configured with the appropriate value or option before you can enable the location as a valid Forecast Location.

1. Click the icon, enter Locations, and select the relevant link.
2. Click New to create a new location, or click Manage - Edit to edit an existing location.
3. In the Replenishment FastTab, ensure that the Active for Autom. Replenishm. check box is selected, if the selected location is a store.
4. In the LS Forecast FastTab, ensure that the Active for LS Forecast check box is selected.
5. Assign Additional Dimensions if you want to provide the Forecast calculation with more supplemental data.

To maintain additional dimensions for all Forecast locations

You can view and configure the additional dimensions of all locations on one single overview page.

1. Click the icon, enter LS Forecast Location Dimensions, and select the relevant link.
2. Click the Edit List action to edit the additional dimensions assignment.

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How to: Set Up Items for Forecast