- What is Census Forecasting?
- Forecast Exceptions for Census Forecasting
- Manually Adjusting Census Forecasting Amounts
- Tutorial Video - Census Forecasting Method (2:01)
What is Census Forecasting?
Census forecasting generates serving amounts of each menu item equal to the diet order census in your account.
Typically, census forecasting is used if your account does not have resident/patient profiles in the system, and instead uses a dining area with a manual census, such as would be the case with an adult daycare.
The system does allow census forecasting to be applied for an account with resident/patient profiles. If so, the census forecasting includes choice 1 items, but will include a choice 2 item if a resident/patient's choice 1 item is precluded due to a do-not serve (as per the item-selection logic).
Forecast Exceptions for Census Forecasting
The census forecast method allows you to configure "forecast exceptions" to apply either percentages forecasting or total needed forecasting, or not apply a forecasting, to a special event menu, an also available menu, or a liquid menu. See Creating "Forecast Exception" for Special Event, an Also Available, or a Liquid Menu to create a forecast exception.
Manually Adjusting Census Forecasting Amounts
With the census forecast method, it is expected for you to access the forecasting worksheets and manually adjust the serving amounts based on your estimations. To do so, see Manually Adjusting Forecasting Amounts on a Worksheet.