Problem Note 45412: Negative forecasts might be generated for products that restart their lifecycle during the holdout period
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In SAS® Promotion Optimization or SAS® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that negative forecasts can be generated for products that restart their life cycle during the holdout period. The negative forecasts are generated because the PERIOD_IN_LIFECYCLE partition is not realigned correctly. This issue only affects scenario runs and not production runs.
There is no workaround for this issue.
A fix for this issue is planned for a future software release.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Promotion Optimization | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| SAS System | SAS Regular Price Optimization | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
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#45412| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | alert |
| Date Modified: | 2012-08-14 09:49:19 |
| Date Created: | 2012-01-17 11:35:37 |