Edit Rooms Forecast screen

Use the Edit Rooms Forecast screen to review, enter, and update the forecast business volumes for all Rooms and Casino market segment KBIs. 

Note: If you manually change the data and then view last week's data, the numbers will not match.

Fields on the Edit Rooms Forecast screen

# Field Description Notes

Controls

1

Planning Period controls

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

Default: Current planning period.

Planning period drop-down

Select a planning period from the drop-down.

Default: Current planning period.

Current

Select the current planning period.

Available only if you navigate away from the current planning period.

arrows

Back / Forward

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

2

Expand All / Collapse All

Expand or collapse all rows in the table.

  

3

All / Needs Attention

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.

  

4

View menu

Select the check boxes to show or hide:

  • Critical Threshold icons

  • Moderate Threshold icons

  • Daily Totals

Show/Hide Daily Totals is unavailable if Needs Attention is selected.

5

Legend

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.

Read-only.

6

Recalculate KBIs

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

This button appears only if you enter or update KBI data.

7

Audits

View a history of changes to the screen.



Table

8

KBI

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.

 

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KBI details

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

Not all KBIs include the same details and statistics.

Forecast Environments

Forecast environment applied to the KBI.

 

System Forecast

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.

 

Manager Forecast

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.

You cannot enter a negative value.

Historical Data

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.

Read-only.
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Daily Totals

Displays total amounts for the day.

Daily Totals appear only if Show Daily Totals is selected in the View menu.