Demand Sensing at aggregates

Customers requested to be able to track this information at different levels of aggregation without the need for customization. In this release, we have added three additional Demand Sensing workbenches at varying levels of aggregation. The levels described in the worksheet names coincide with the hierarchical levels from the default item and location hierarchies in Demand Planning content:

• Demand Sensing (Items) - calculates at the base level of the Item hierarchy; which by default is Item-Warehouse (SKU).
• Demand Sensing (Item Grp) - calculates at the Groups level of the item hierarchy, which by default is Item.
• Demand Sensing (Item Grp - Location) - calculates at the Groups level of the item hierarchy and the base level of the location hierarchy, which by default is Item-Customer.

All workbenches have the same layout and work in a similar way to the existing Demand Sensing workbench. All four workbenches are available to be used independently or in parallel, so different users can sense the demand and track errors at different levels.

Demand Sensing allows setting tolerances based on number of standard deviations and a percentage difference. Standard Deviation tolerance is only performed at the base hierarchical levels, by default item-location-customer, as this is typically where we calculate and store the standard deviation from forecast generation. Therefore, three new workbenches only use the percentage tolerance for demand sensing alerts.