Edit Rooms Forecast screen

Use the controls to display rooms forecasts for the specified planning period.

Select a planning period from the drop-down.

Select the current planning period.

Select the arrows to go to the previous or next planning period.

Expand or collapse all rows in the table.

Filter the table to display all data or only data that requires your attention. A red bubble displays the total number of items that require attention.

Opens the Copy KBIs dialog box where you can copy manager forecast values for selected input-type market group KBIs from one date range to another. The copy is performed by day of week (for example, Mondays to Mondays) with support for multi-week periods.

Select the check boxes to show or hide:

• Critical Threshold icons

• Moderate Threshold icons

• Daily Totals

Select this button to recalculate calculated KBIs after you enter or update KBI data on the screen.

View a history of changes to the screen.

Opens the Legend dialog box which displays the following information:

• —In recent weeks with the same business conditions, on average the system forecast moderately differed from the actual business volume. Read-only.

• —In recent weeks with the same business conditions, on average the system forecast greatly differed from the actual business volume. Read-only.

• —Needs attention. The system requires more data to generate a forecast. Read-only.

• —Forecast has been edited manually. Read-only.

• —A forecast environment has been applied. Read-only.

• —Data is missing or is incomplete.

The weather forecast is displayed for the location of the selected property. With this information, you can quickly see the weather on a given day so that you can make an educated guess as to the impact that the weather might have on business volumes. The weather forecast data includes the temperature (high and low) and an icon that indicates weather conditions.

Forecast values for the KBI. A number and an icon are displayed for each day. The numbers indicate the number of units (for example, covers), and the icon represents the variance of the system forecast from the actual business volumes.

Expand each KBI line to see details. The rows in this section define the details and statistics for each KBI.

Forecast environment applied to the KBI.

The volume forecast generated by the system.

In each cell, the number indicates the system forecast value and the icon indicates the recent average variance of the system forecast to the actual business volume.

Manually entered forecast by a manager. If there is no manager forecast, the cell is blank.

Enter a value if you feel that you can better predict the volumes for the day. If there is a manager forecast, the system uses that value instead of the system forecast in schedule calculations.

Expand to view statistics related to forecast accuracy and historical data, including:

• System Accuracy—During the past four weeks with the same business conditions, on average the system forecast was within X units and Y percent of the actual business volume.

• Manager Accuracy—During the past four weeks with the same business conditions, on average the manager forecast was within X units and Y percent of the actual business volume.

• Last Week—Actual business volume for the same day last week.

• Last Year—Actual business volume for the same day last year.

• 4 Week Average—Average business volume for the same day for the last four weeks.