Problem Note 45921: Overforecasting observed for some SKUs
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In SAS® Promotion Optimization or SAS® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice significant overforecasting for SKUs that have sales for the first time in many weeks. The overforecasting is a result of leading zeros being ignored when smoothing the base demand in share modeling. This causes the forecasted shares to take away from other SKUs within the same share group.
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 Promotion Optimization | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 4.2_M1 | 5.2 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 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 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 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 2003 Standard 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 | ||
| SAS System | SAS Regular Price Optimization | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 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 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 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 2003 Standard 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 Datacenter Edition | 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#45921| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2012-11-14 08:32:48 |
| Date Created: | 2012-03-06 10:33:25 |