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Forecasting and Budgeting Over Capacity

Overview of how to update Forecast and Budget when input exceeds available capacity

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Written by Nicole Adair
Updated over 2 weeks ago

In Planning, capacity limits when redistributing help ensure that your forecast and budget targets remain operationally realistic. While you can enter values that exceed capacity, FLYR will only redistribute those values automatically up to the selected capacity.

You can control which capacity applies by switching between bookable and physical capacity via the Display Options. This selection directly affects how automatic redistribution works when your input exceeds capacity.

  • Bookable capacity (default) - Reflects your property’s physical capacity minus Out of Order (OOO) rooms, based on your PMS. This is the number of rooms currently available to sell.

  • Physical capacity - The total built capacity of your property, including all rooms regardless of their current status.

💡 Tip: If you are planning above your bookable capacity but still within your physical limit, switch the view to physical capacity to allow automatic redistribution up to that higher threshold.

Automatic redistribution is always capped based on the selected capacity. The following sections explain how this applies in both Monthly and Detailed views.

Monthly View

Our Monthly View is designed to seamlessly and automatically distribute new values across segments and days. For this reason, an input here that exceeds available capacity cannot be saved.

If you input a Unit value in the monthly view that exceeds available capacity, FLYR will automatically redistribute your values up to the available capacity. The Unit total for that month will be capped at this available capacity and the value you see in the cell will be adjusted upon Save to your available capacity.

Detailed View

Our Detailed View is designed to support maximum flexibility across segments and days. For this reason, any Unit input here that exceeds available capacity can be saved, but will require manual redistribution to lowest granularity.

What does this mean for you?

If Unit values are updated via KPI edit:

OR at the unexpanded, parent data level in By Segment view:

OR at the unexpanded, parent data level in By Day view:

... automatic redistribution will only happen up to the available capacity amount. Any remaining unit values will need to be manually updated at the By Day + By Segment level.

Example

You updated the Unit forecast in the KPI header to 1600, with a property capacity of 1470. You then selects Redistribute -> Distribute to Lowest Granularity. However, there remain 130 units above available capacity that FLYR cannot automatically redistribute.

To resolve this conflict, youcan now expand at the day or segment level and manually redistribute the remaining 130 units to the appropriate day/segment combinations.

Updates can now be saved and forecasted (or budgeted) units will reflect above the property capacity.

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