Collaborator workbench (Demand Essentials Implementation Accelerator)

A new Collaborator Workbench is added as a part of the Demand Essentials Implementation Accelerator. The workbench allows a standard subset of effective components to be deployed quickly and easily with minimal effort. The components deployed as a standard content for customers that requires the essentials of forecast collaboration but do not require the extended SCP functionality.

This workbench provides visualization of the forecast with essential interaction through the ‘Edit Grid’ type functionality but does not require the understanding of statistical modelling or application interaction.

The target user for this workbench is the Forecast Contributor, working independently, or in conjunction with Demand Managers. The workbench can be used as a dashboard or homepage for all implementations.

The workbench utilizes several worksheet panels available in previous versions of Demand Planning Displayed components:

  • Forecast Graph and Forecast Edit table tabbed pane: Visual review
  • Forecast Information pane: Key forecast driving information.
  • Edit Grid (both Item-Location children and Location-Item children) tabbed pane: Forecast intervention with alternate orientations, and hierarchical drill down
  • MI Events / Notes tabbed pane: MI details for events / Note information; for the selection
  • Forecast Accuracy pane: Review of reported accuracy for the selection
  • The Forecast intervention (manual adjustment to forecast units) is the editable component.
Note: This feature is enabled after appending the demand planning template (dpls.zip) for this version and no additional role or privilege is required to access this feature.