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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.

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Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS Regular Price OptimizationMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition4.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition4.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition4.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x644.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
Microsoft Windows Server 20084.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x644.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
64-bit Enabled AIX4.2_M14.2_M29.2 TS2M39.2 TS2M3
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.