JG Terms
Hierarchies
Forecasting
Business Analysis
Collaboration
100
Fields that pertain to products and customers or their combinations.
What is a series attribute?
100
This tool provides the ability to view and configure hierarchies.
What is the Hierarchy Manager?
100
John Galt's award-winning proprietary forecasting method.
What is Procast?
100
Tool used to limit the series list based on one or more series attributes.
What is a Filter?
100
Sales people use this tool to view customer demand history and forecast and enter overrides.
What is the Planning Portal?
200
This view shows the series in a tree structure.
What is the single series view?
200
This hierarchy feature controls the opinion lines that are aggregated.
What are Bottom Up fields?
200
Tab in the Viewer Miscellaneous window that allows the user to select the forecast method.
What is ForecastX Methods?
200
Tool used to define where History exceeds Forecast for the prior month by more than 20%.
What is an Exception?
200
Opinion line name typically used to merge forecast input.
What is the Final or Consensus Forecast?
300
A time series set of data such as adjusted history or forecast.
What is an opinion line?
300
On the Viewer login screen what type of hierarchy may already be applied to the scenario?
What is a static hierarchy?
300
Forecasting method used when the demand history is not appropriate.
What is Lifecycle?
300
Customers use this view to sort or filter by ABC rank, product family, or top selling customers.
What is the Multi-Series View
300
Task list where users can report on the status of the forecast process steps.
What is Workflow?
400
Controls access to opinion lines for one or more users.
What is a data domain?
400
This is the mechanism used in the Viewer and Planning portal to reconcile changes made at an aggregate level.
What is Re-balance?
400
Feature used to indicate where a demand history outlier is attributed to an irrecular occurence such as a promotion or price increase.
What are Events?
400
Feature used to set an opinion line to a set value or increase by x% for a defined time range.
What is Adjustments?
400
Tool used to configure the Planning Portal.
What is PP Admin?
500
Configurable feature that maps demand from an old series to a new series to manage demand across the lifecycle.
What is re-tagging?
500
This view has a feature that allows the user to drag and drop series attributes to modify an existing hierarchy.
What is the Summary View?
500
The two statistical measures used to determine the best forecast fit for a series.
What are MAPE and R-squared?
500
Visual aid for analyzing data that can also be used to filter the Single Series view.
What are Graph Filters?
500
Feature in the Planning Portal where collaborators enter overrides and notes one series at a time.
What is the Detail View?
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