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Do you build your operational budget based on the sales forecast? Do you maintain your sales forecast in QAD for long term planning of materials and manufacturing resources? Do you have a quick and efficient way to compare actual sales with forecast and make timely adjustments?

In this webinar we share our knowledge and experience in entering sales forecasts into QAD and demonstrate the tools we have developed to improve forecast data entry, reporting, and analysis. You’ll discover how you can…

• Enter and update forecasted sales in QAD quickly, accurately, securely, and with very little effort
• Calculate projected material and manufacturing requirements based on sales forecasts with accuracy and confidence
• Use QAD forecasts for your operational budget and individual customer forecasts
• Give responsibility and control of forecast entry and maintenance to your sales force

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Questions from the webinar

	How would I decide whether to use the Summary Forecast Loader vs. the Simulated Forecast Loader?
Simulated Forecast allows you to maintain multiple forecasts (for different regions or customers, for example) and give maintenance access to multiple users without affecting production planning or material demands. Simulated Forecast is used for forecast simulation only and is eventually transformed into a Summary Forecast. Alternately, Summary Forecast is used as a source of demands in material requirements planning. So, it all depends on your existing business processes and whether you want to create a Summary Forecast directly or first create a Simulation Forecast and then turn it into a Summary Forecast.
	This appears to be a good tool to use with Production Smoothing. Can it be used to bring in historical forecasts that could be used to reset a Production Smoothing monthly schedule, for example?
Yes, the Sales Forecast Data Loader allows you to download historical forecasts and use them as a source for new forecasting or Production Smoothing.
	What dates are used in the Loaders—dates when an item is ordered or when it is projected to ship (order date vs. ship date)?
Sales Forecast quantity in QAD is entered for the month or week it is planned to be sold. It is a first source of demands in material requirement planning. Forecasted quantities are consumed by sales orders based on the forecast consumption logic defined in QAD’s control file. When a sales order is created in QAD, it may consume or not consume (irregular sales) forecasted quantities. Consumption can be set forward or backward and can take into account average shipment lead time. Sales forecast in QAD cannot be used to run order vs. ship date comparisons. Sources of ordered vs. shipped information are sales order and invoice history.

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