User Forecast Method Maintenance
Add New Forecast Methods
• Allows you to incorporate your own expertise into the system by specifying your own method in Simulation Criteria Maintenance
• Use User Forecast Method Maintenance to define the new method
• You supply Progress program
• Provide a method number
• User factors (1) and (2) are reserved for your forecast methods
User Forecast Method Maintenance
• Required if you want to use other statistical methods in a forecast calculation
• It is required to name your user-supplied Progress program ffcalcXX.p
• XX is the forecast method and must be between 51-99
Rules for Adding Methods
• Write the procedure and make it accessible to QAD Enterprise Applications before the method number is defined in User Forecast Method Maintenance
• Procedure must use an array named calc[1-60] as the historical data input and an array fcast[1-12] for the calculated output
• Procedure must include the following files at the beginning of the procedure
• fcalvar.i
• ffvar.i
