What is the sales volume planning Aggregate action process?
Sales volume planning is the process of modeling projected sales of a product at one or more accounts within an upcoming period of time. Companies establish sales volume plans to forecast or plan the quantity of products they will sell to these accounts during the sales volume planning period. The sales volume planning Aggregate process models this complex account-category-product-period hierarchy and allows for the allocation and aggregation of data through this hierarchy.The sales volume planning Aggregate action uses the account-category links created by an administrator to construct the account-category-product hierarchy, and associates the imported source data with the appropriate sales volume planning nodes. Sales volume planning nodes create records that represent the combination of accounts and category-products. The sales volume planning Aggregate action is an ongoing sales volume planning task. Each time the action is run after the initial Aggregate action, a search is perfor