Spend analysis
Reclassification window design
Reclassification interface receives new, side-panel design. New design allows for better use of space, and guides the users to the most optimal of available workflows (e.g. direct reclassification).
Materials Forecasting
Easy volume allocation between suppliers
This new feature for Sievo Materials Forecasting improves the user experience and accuracy of volume adjustments. Previous development has included: 1) providing logic to estimate supplier-level split from historical data when supplier-level planning volumes are not available; 2) enabling adjusting the same material for different suppliers and plants in the same view. Now we are further improving the manual volume adjustments view, to enable even easier volume allocation between suppliers. The feature includes locking quantities in the volume adjustments view, adding and removing suppliers, adding placeholder suppliers, applying volume allocations from source rounds to new rounds, and merging forecast rows.
With this update users can improve the level of detail of the forecasts and make corrections more efficiently when the source data in systems conflicts with the latest expectations (e.g. new suppliers missing in the source data systems
Improved round information visibility
The visibility to the rounds is enhanced by providing more metadata, more calculated summaries, and more information of data sources used in the rounds. It is possible to see e.g. metadata of who created and closed the round and when, where the price or volume data of a row was retrieved from, and summaries on how many rows there are with manual, automatic or missing price or volume data.
Better visibility to the round specific information improves the user experience and efficiency to validate that the round was created and adjustments are progressing as planned.
Round duplication
Round duplication enables making a copy of an existing budget or forecast round. It is possible to adjust, analyse and compare the duplicated rounds similarly to normally created rounds.
Round duplication provides an efficient way to create additional projections for scenario modelling. After creating and adjusting the official budget/forecast round, you can duplicate the round, adjust the inputs of your interest, and see another scenario that can be further analysed and compared to the other rounds.
