What does the What the forecast assumes card show?

It shows the six numbers the forecast takes for granted, so you can check them. Each tile is one driver: Orders a month, Revenue per order, MER, Return rate, Product costs and CM2 margin. What each one means, with an example, is in the answer on Orders a month and Revenue per order.

The big figure on a tile is the forecast for the next 12 months. Under it, Last 12 months shows the same figure for the year behind you. The chip is the change between the two. Green means the change is good for you, and red means it is not. A lower return rate is green, for example, and a higher one is red.

The thin line shows 12 months as they happened, then the 12 forecast months, dashed. A gap in it is a month with nothing to divide by, never a zero. Point at the i beside a name to read how the forecast gets that driver.

If you expect something else, click a tile or its Change link. It opens What if at the right group of levers. The two order tiles open Demand, MER opens Marketing, and the other three open Costs. Nothing changes until you move a lever there.

A store with less than a year of orders compares with its last four weeks instead. Its tiles then say Last 4 weeks, and the card covers the next 4 months.