Problem Note 45021: Units sold target produces unexpected results
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When specifying units sold as the target in a plan in SAS® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that the results are not as expected after optimization. Consider the following two scenarios:
Scenario 1:
Baseline units = 250,000
Target: Maintain baseline units
Scenario 2:
Baseline units = 250,000
Target: Units sold = 230,000
You might get results closer to the baseline for scenario 2, which is incorrect. This unexpected behavior occurs because the overall target is not decomposed into subproblems correctly.
There is no workaround for this issue.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Regular Price Optimization | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 4.2_M1 | 4.2_M2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS Merchandise Intelligence 4.2_M2 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D81.html#45021| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | alert |
| Date Modified: | 2012-01-30 09:13:56 |
| Date Created: | 2011-12-05 08:46:58 |