Overview
Once the sales season starts, you will likely want to make changes on your Original Plan (aka. Pre-Season Plan). This process is also called as In-Season Planning or Reforecasting. Toolio's In-Season Planning Workflows allow you to:
Actualize your plans
See your progressing towards your Original Plan
Update your Working Plan to maintain an accurate Forecast
Exposing Act/Plan Metric
The Plan
variant on Toolio, by default, is a non-actualizing variant. This means that, by default, the Plan
variant only contains the value that you have set for it. However, once the selling period has started, your initial plan value will not be very relevant in most cases, and you will want to see how a given metric has been actualizing.
Toolio allows you to easily change the Plan
variant into the Act/Plan
variant by actualizing it. The Act/Plan
variant will show the Act
value for time periods in the past, and the Plan
value for periods in the future; hence giving you the most accurate projection in to quarterly and annual plans. Please follow the steps below:
1. Click on the Scenario Selector & Check Actualize Plan
2. Save this Configuration to the Current View
For In-Season Planning Workflows, Act/Plan
will likely be the more relevant variant. To make sure that you always see the Act/Plan
variant instead of the Plan
, save your updated View, so that Actualize Plan
configuration is saved to the View. (See Using Views in Merchandise Planning)
3. Compare forecast (Act/Plan) to Original Plan
After you make changes to your forecast, you will likely want to compare it to the Original Plan. You can achieve this by the Scenario Comparison capability. (See Scenario Playing)
Video Walkthrough
Finally here is a Video Walkthrough that puts all of these steps together.