Create a forecast action to generate predictions based on your forecast model.

After you've created a data collection (Step 2) and a forecast model (Step 3), create a forecast action. Then you can run it on demand or schedule it to generate forecasts automatically (Step 4). You can create only one forecast action per model.

To create a forecast action:

  1. In Forecaster, select Forecast actions.
  2. Select New forecast action in the upper right of the screen.
  3. Select a Forecast model from the dropdown.
    The action uses this model to generate the forecasts.
  4. Beneath Forecast quantiles, change the values of the lower and upper Forecast quantiles (optional). The values can be up to two decimal places (hundredths place). See Quantiles for details.
      • Enter a value between 0.01 and 0.49 in the Lower quantile field. The default value is 0.1.
      • Enter a value between 0.51 and 0.99 in the Upper quantile field. The default value is 0.9.

Example of a forecast action setup:

Dialog to create a forecast action.

5. Select Next, and to import Explainability results to Anaplan, map these items:

      • Workspace
      • Model
      • Module
      • Item ID list
      • Features list
      • Forecast (forecast version) list
      • Forecast list item

6. Select Create action

Example of mapping for explainability results:

Mapping dialog for explainability results.

To run a forecast action:

  1. Select the forecast action from the Forecast actions list. 
  2. Select Run in the ellipsis ... menu.  

Alternatively, you can run a forecast action with a trigger on a page. See Add forecast actions to a page.

You can check the run status beneath Forecast actions.

See Schedule a forecast action.