Enhance your demand forecasting and planning
Important
Some of the functionality described in this release plan has not been released. Delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy). Learn more: What's new and planned
| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Apr 2025 |
Business value
The latest enhancements for Demand planning in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provide new insights into your supply chain planning. Take advantage of them to help optimize your supply chain and boost your financial outcomes.
Feature details
Demand planning in Supply Chain Management helps you plan and forecast demand based on various data sources and signals. The app now provides capabilities that enhance the accuracy of the demand forecast to better help you optimize your supply chain and boost your financial outcomes.
All the new capabilities are enabled by default. You can use each of them as needed with your new and existing forecasts to help improve their accuracy. The new capabilities include:
- Assortment planning: Forecast from top to bottom by allocating demand across different dimensions (such as products, customers, or channels) based on an allocation basis that you define.
- Time freeze: Establish periods during which forecast calculations set to run continuously won't update their baseline forecasts.
- Forecast with signals: Now allows you to define multiple input signals and lets you choose to between the Prophet forecast algorithm, XGBoost forecast algorithm, or best-fit forecast model (which automatically calculates both XGBoost and Prophet results for each combination of dimensions and choose the best one for the final forecast).
- Auto detect seasonality: Automatically detect seasonality patterns for all forecast algorithms. The system runs an algorithm to detect distinct seasonality patterns across different dimensions (such as products and locations).
