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Enhance your demand forecasting and planning

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts - Oct 31, 2024

Business value

The latest enhancements for Demand planning in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provide new insights into your supply chain planning. Take advantage of them to optimize your supply chain and boost your financial outcomes.

Feature details

Demand planning in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management helps you plan and forecast demand based on various data sources and signals. This release enhances the app by adding the following capabilities:

  • Filter data on calculations profiles.
  • View and select the best-fit model for each planning unit based on accuracy metrics.
  • Incorporate external signals, such as inflation rates or weather conditions, into your forecast calculation and understand how they impact your demand.
  • Apply a new forecast model (XGBoost), which can create forecasts using both input and signal data.
  • Apply time-fence rules to prevent edits during specific periods that are locked or closed.

Additional resources

Demand planning home page (docs)