New Features
Promotional smoothing
Promotional periods boost sales and if not smoothed down, the increase in sales can distort the forecast going forward. Therefore we introduce promotional smoothing as a part of forecasting in AGR.
Promotional smoothing uses sales periods preceding promotions to estimate how sales might have been without the promotional influence. We then override the promotional sales period with the regular sales forecast, finetuning the input that goes into the forecast calculations, thereby influencing the forecast to reflect regular demand going forward.
AGR relies on information from the ERP system to identify past promotional periods for each item, enabling the automatic application of promotional smoothing.
Scheduled orders enhancements
In a perfect world the order schedule is carved in stone, in the real world however buying needs present themselves whenever they please.
We love to help, and have therefor added the shopping cart in the top right corner of the scheduled order section. The shopping cart is there, waiting patiently until you need to create an order, that has been scheduled at a different date.
The default behavior is to calculate an order quantity that will last until the next scheduled order will arrive. Optionally the user can change the next order date in the schedule impacting both the next scheduled order date and the order calculations of the manual order being created.
Scheduled order - Multi filter option
Because businesses need flexibility, we now enabled two filters to be added more than once, these are "item no" and item name, to apply detailed filter rules to achieve the right buy mix.
For example if item numbers including signs such as # or start with X, should be excluded from regular ordering, then select these filter as many times as needed.
Improvements
System status message window was slightly changed
Order line information: Min stock, cost price columns are now available
Extra decimal places for weight and volume
Bom Demand tab: Decimals are now in place for quantity in recipe
Forecast improvement - when a customer is excluded in Data management, all subsequent items will get an invalid forecast status, so that orders created afterwards will have up to date forecast.
Order status updated when split by constraint is applied
Translation database enhancements
Bug fixes
Order lines for items no longer in AGR causing errors in order transfer
Time zone fixed when using date filter
Other fixes and improvements
Minor changes were made in the system to improve stability, performance, and user experience.