Special Days and Matching Days

Special days are days when there are unusual changes to volume types, such as AHR, sales, units, and transactions, because of unusual circumstances. For example:

  • Sales increase sharply because of the discounted prices on the day after Thanksgiving.
  • There is a steep decline in sales on the day of a big snowstorm.

Special days are relevant to all forecast methods except the Budget Adjusted Trend forecast method, which does not use special day matching because it is a weekly forecast method.

You configure special days on the Add Special Days page in LFSO, which you display using the following menu path:

Scheduling > Schedule Optimization > Special Days > New

On this page, specify: