Demantra 7.2 New Features

Oracle Demantra 7.2 release from Demantra product prospective came up with few new features to empower the application users with more robust demand planning platform. Following features are new in Demantra 7.2 for all the existing customers:
1. Support for multiple forecast streams: With this release Oracle has overcomed the missing ability of support for generating and managing multiple forecast in Demantra product. This has been developed using Engine profile options and system of forecast versioning. You can now create more than one forecast based on different historical data, like Forecast based on Shipment history, Forecast based on Booking history, Forecast based on Customer POS, etc.
Setting up multiple forecast generation is pretty straight forward, one just needs to define separate engine profiles with "Quantity from" parameter pointing to different history data. One can view and analyse these multiple forecasts generated by the engine, in worksheet as usual and can utilise forecasted booking trends to compare with forecasted shipment trends. This feature has for sure added a missing card into the pack of capabilities offered by Demantra product.
2. Enhanced Engine Performance: Demantra's Analytical engine, often referred as heart of the Demantra Suite has been improved by cutting down the processing time. Unlike older version, for combinations which have been forecasted already in previous runs existing branch allocation will be used now on. This cuts down the engine run time, as there are only few new combinations and thus allocation of branch happens only for them. Besides this, with few other changes has been done on engine side, to enhance Engine performance.
3. Enahnced Worksheet usability: You can now create series with "No Summary" option, thus users don't see any irrelevant numbers as Summary for each of the series. This takes off the compulsion of having a summary function even for Series with data, which doesn't have any significance at Summary level, e.g. Date type series, Approval series etc.