This resource allows you to retrieve volume forecasts.
The volume forecast is a prediction of how much business is going to be done at a future date. The Forecast Planner predicts weekly business volumes by day of the week based on:
- Large samples of historical, actual POS volume data
- Configured forecast rules
- Adjustments to the predicted volumes for special events such as promotions and holidays
The volume forecast is a major component used to generate the labor forecast. For example, the number of forecasted transactions at a register drives the requirement for the number of cashiers that need to be working, the number of items forecasted to be sold in the bakery drives the requirement for the number of bakers on a given day, and so on.
Before the system can forecast volume, you must:
- Create volume drivers and assigned them to forecast categories.
- Define special events and assign them to forecast categories.
- Import actual volume data and other business data.
Operations
Retrieve Multiple Volume Forecasts
POST /v1/forecasting/volume_forecasts/multi_read