NPI Process Flow

Process streamlines the process of introducing or replacing demand units, demand groups, or locations in a one-to-one fashion. It utilizes seasonality, trend, and mean of an old/like product to generate a forecast for a new/like item.   

1. New DFU introduction feature uses Old DFU as a reference from which to copy level, trend and seasonality.
2. Scaling factor may be applied to indicate an expected growth or decline in sales of the new product versus the old.
3. When a new relationship is configured, the DFUNPIRelation table is populated with the new and old DFU information as a reference.
4. A flag (DFU:NPISw) is set on the DFU table for the new DFU indicating that this DFU is a new product.
5. When this flag is set, the Calculate Model process will use the level, trend, and seasonality from the Old DFU as a basis for creating a forecast for the new DFU.
6. If the new DFU has no history, the values copied from the Old DFU are used exclusively.
7. Once history begins to post for the New DFU, Calculate Model will smooth the level and trend of the new history with the level and trend copied from the Old DFU.

1. Running NPI process from the UI, the DFUMaintCopyDFU table will be populated and truncated by the system during the process.
2. After running the NPI process, the FromDFUs and ToDFUs are displayed in DFUNPIRelation table.
3. Running NPI or Copy DFU from batch process, DFUMaintCopyDFU table should be populated first and then the NPI batch xml script run.
4. When the batch xml script will run, the process will truncate the DFUMaintCopyDFU table after creating NPI DFU(s) or Copied DFU(s).