Weekly Profile

[To Demand Planning]

Weekly indexes are estimates of how demand is spread among days within a week, e.g. how much of the weekly volume that is sold on a Monday, Tuesday.... The indexes are created and edited manually by users of the system. Then the profiles are automatically normalized before being used in any models. A weekly profile is normalized like this:

When N = 7 and P = the period profile index, a normalized period profile must have this property:

Whenever any of the weekly profile are changed or created, the profile is immediately normalized. When is the weekly profile to be normalized, the normalization method is:

 

If you have other than weeks as the demand plan servers selected period version the weekly profiles can be combined with period profiles to form a final daily forecast.