🔍 Explore Actual: Understand Your Demand History
The Explore Actual feature in SIMCEL lets you dive deep into your historical demand performance. By analyzing past data, you can spot trends, assess planning accuracy, and build a stronger foundation for future forecasts.
🧭 Navigation
To get started:
- Click the "📈 D" icon on the left-hand sidebar to access the Demand Planning module.
- From the available datasets, select "Actual" to begin exploring your historical sales data.
By selecting the Actual data set, you can explore your historical data:
Explore Demand Chart
Actual in grey shows your past performance
📉 Explore Demand Chart
In the Demand Chart widget:
- Grey lines represent your actual historical performance.
- Purple lines show previously committed plans.
This line chart lets you visualize demand trends over time, and totals are shown for each selected period on the left-hand side.
You can toggle specific lines on and off by clicking their labels in the chart legend.
Committed Plans in purples shows the previous plans that were committed for execution:
The Demand chart widget presents a line chart that visualizes the demand over time and displays the total for the selected period on the left-hand side for each scenario. To hide or show specific lines, simply click on their corresponding entries in the legend.
📊 Explore Demand Table
Beneath the chart, you'll find the Demand Table. This allows you to analyze demand by segment per scenario, offering a granular view of how different customer or product groups behave over time.
Use the “+” button to expand segment details and view deeper breakdowns.
To see the detailed demand per segment for each dataset, use the "+" button.
