Forecasts
Forecasts presented in the Forecast app can only be imported via Jakamo Forecast API. In other words, customers need to purchase Jakamo integration before Forecasts can be shared with suppliers. Find Forecast API description from here.
With Forecasts, customers can send order or demand forecasts for coming months to their suppliers. Forecasts are in use and thus visible only when the customer has included this functionality in their Jakamo subscription. Forecasts are a sub-feature in Orders App. If Forecasts is available, users can navigate there from Forecasts icon on the top center view of the Orders App. The forecast feature presents always only the latest forecast, i.e. only one forecast per relation is available in Jakamo.
By hitting the Forecasts icon, the sub-feature view opens. Existing forecasts can be filtered by company (you can choose one or more companies) in the Relation drop-down menu, specific item IDs can be examined with the Search textbox, either Order or Demand type of forecasts can be viewed with Purpose code selection, and finally report can be selected to be viewed either in monthly or weekly form. Both sent and received forecasts can be examined.
By filtering the results with the report type, either dates-based, weekly or monthly forecasts are presented for filter criteria. Different selections present the forecast as follows:
- Dates based ("Nothing selected") report type, shows the latest values with dates.
- Monthly report type, the period is the current month and the next 11 months.
- Weekly report type, the period is the current week and the next 51 weeks.
However, the Jakamo user interface does not for instance sum up the demand for specific items for the period. Usually, it is more practical to export the forecasts to for instance Excel spreadsheet. This can be done by hitting the "XLS" icon on the top right corner of the shown forecasts.
Selection in the Report tpe drop box affects the exported spreadsheet as follows;
- Report type equals "Nothing selected" -Pcs for each item are summarized from all forecasts without time limitations.
- Report type equals "week" -Pcs for all items for each week that have Pcs in any of the items presented. The count for different items is not summarized.
- Report type equals "month" -Pcs for all items for each month that have Pcs in any of the items are presented. The count for different items is not summarized.
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