New Forecast Wizard
Use the New Forecast Wizard (NFW) to create a new forecast scenario. Defining a forecast scenario involves naming the forecast, defining a forecast date range, adding comments (optional), and selecting the activities the forecast will cover. You also have the option of basing the scenario on an existing forecast or building the numbers later.
To use the New Forecast Wizard:
- Select the Forecast tab.
- Select Scenarios from the Views menu.
- Click the New button (
) on the Forecast Scenarios view toolbar.
The first of the New Forecast Wizard's screens, General Parameters, opens. - Fill in the General Parameters screen and then click Next. The Select Activity screen opens.
- Select one or more activities and then click Finish.
After you create a scenario, you can build interaction volume, AHT, and staffing forecasts, add comments, and publish the scenario. For details, see Forecast Scenarios Overview.
Terminology Review
To better understand WFM forecasting and scheduling views and dialog boxes, it is helpful to review certain WFM terminology.
Activities
Activities are work that is tracked and managed using Genesys Workforce Management. On a general level, example activities are answering inbound calls, responding to e-mail, completing after-call work, performing scheduled callbacks, and participating in chat sessions. When you create forecasts and schedules, these activities are typically associated with a specific product, such as inbound calls for product A, inbound calls for product B, and so on. In the Configuration Utility, activities are associated with skills. You define separate activities for each site or business unit.
Sites
Sites can be equivalent to switches, which are originally defined in Genesys Administrator and then imported into WFM via WFM Server. See "Creating Switch Objects" in Genesys Adminsitrator Extension Help.
You can also create sites that are unrelated to a switch. This is appropriate when switches do not correlate with your company's organization. For example, a single location could be divided into multiple entities to reflect divisions along business unit lines.
Sites can use activity sets, which provide a means to combine activities into groups for multi-skilled scheduling. During that time:
- Agents can only work on the activities defined for the activity set.
- Scheduler cannot schedule meals at times that would interrupt the activity set.
Business units cannot use activity sets.
Business Units
A business unit consists of a set of sites that may be grouped together because the agents at the sites perform the same activity, or for ease of management.