Demand Forecasting | Action Plan Prompt

What this prompt helps you do

Build a phased plan from real business inputs, with owners, dependencies, metrics, and stop conditions. Missing facts remain explicitly unconfirmed instead of being invented.

Prompt text

Act as a retail demand-planning analyst and create an action plan for [Brand/Store] to forecast SKU demand and explain seasonality, promotions, price, channel, and external drivers. Available information: [At least 24 months of sales history], [Stockout flags], [Promotions and price], [Holidays], [Lead time and units]. Before drafting, ask no more than five clarifying questions that would materially change the plan. If answers are unavailable, state explicit assumptions separately. Deliver: objectives and scope; target users or objects; phased steps; required data and resources; Baseline forecast, Scenario forecasts, Error and confidence interval, Demand drivers, Review plan; suggested owners; timeline; primary KPIs and guardrails; pre-launch checks; and a rollback plan. Special requirement: Use a Situation-Task-Constraints-Output structure. Specify units such as pieces, cartons, or pallets, and do not treat stockout-period sales as true demand.