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8. WORKSHEET FACILITY


The Worksheet Facility allows you to generate reports
suitable for distribution to your users so they can fill in
their projections of future consumption levels. Once these
reports have been returned (or filled in by you) you can
consolidate the forecasts by entering the data into the
Worksheet Entry screen and apply them to your Capacity
Planning database. Once applied, facilities are provided to
show the effects of these projections on your Capacity
Planning actuals data.

The Worksheet Facility enables you to perform these
forecasting functions using the following Capacity Planner
options.

    o Menu option (3) on the Capacity Planner Main Menu
      takes you into Worksheet Creation, Modification,
      Production (Execution), Worksheet Enter, and Database
      Apply.

    o An extension to the Presentation Graphics Facility
      places the results of the user forecast on generated
      graphics.

    o An analytic report, Worksheet Effect Report, shows the
      effect of applying the Worksheet values to the Capacity
      Planning database.

The following sections describe the operation and reporting
facilities of the Capacity Planner Worksheet Facility.

For information regarding Presentation Graphics, see Chapter
4 of this guide.

This section contains the following topics:

8.1 Functional Description

8.2 Usage Guidelines

8.3 Standard Output

8.4 Forecasting Technique Tutorial

8.5 Product Operation