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Why do my avails not match Maxagrid?

Click on the Yield/Inventory Controls/Capacities, select the station and click on Inventory Capacity. Click on Begin to organize the time segments by daypart. At this point, verify that the capacities match traffic. If traffic tracks by units verify against traffic, if tracked by time it should reflect 1 minute per unit (30 seconds for television) or for 30's have 2 units per minute. If both are tracked individually then set the appropriate value for minutes and units.

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Pending business will add pressure for the months in which pendings are entered. View this by going to Yield/Rate Classes/Rate Classes and right clicking on the desired cell. By holding it down view pending business for the forecast combination and the flight selected. This can be changed by going to Yield/Inventory Controls/Bulk Pendings/Bulk Input and highlighting the desired week and forecast combination or highlighting the entire month and clicking on the Remove Spots.

How is pending business entered?

Click on the Yield/Inventory Controls/Bulk Pendings, select the station and click on Rate Class. Choose the Pending rate class and go to Bulk Input Highlight the weeks for pending distribution. This can be entered by week, month, or any combination of weeks needed. To select weeks click on the week desired, click and drag to get a month, or click while holding the "Ctrl" key to select non-consecutive weeks. The numbers in brackets are a reflection of the broadcast week definition. Pending business may be entered by spot or dollar amount on the right side of the screen by double clicking in the appropriate area. If the pending spots have been sold at a different rate than the one displayed, that rate can be adjusted to reflect a more appropriate rate by double clicking on the rate and entering a new value. After the dollar amount or number of spots has been entered for all dayparts, click on Distribute Spots. After entering all pending, click on Save.

How many weeks of traffic should I load into Maxagrid?.

As many as your traffic system will allow you to.

How do I verify that Advanced Revenue Management System has the same capacities that I have in traffic?

Click on Yield; go to Inventory Controls/Capacities, choose the station and click on the Inventory Capacity tab. Click on the word 'Begin' at the top of the screen to organize the time segments by daypart. At this point, we want to verify that the capacities match the ones in traffic. If traffic tracks by units then we want to have the correct number of units and have the time reflect 1 minute per unit (30 seconds for television). If we track by minutes and sell any 30's then we want to have 2 units per minute. If we track both then set the appropriate value for minutes and units. If there are any questions on how this should be set, please call the customer service help desk (972-241-2110).

How do I enter pending business into the application?

Click on Yield; go to Inventory Controls/Bulk Pendings, choose the station and click on the Rate Class tab. Choose the Pending rate class and go to the Bulk Input tab. Highlight the weeks for pending distribution. This can be entered by week, by month, or any combination of weeks needed. To select weeks to be used click on the week desired, click and drag to get a month, or click while holding the "Ctrl" key to skip between weeks. The numbers in brackets are a reflection of the broadcast week definition. At this time pending business may be entered by spot or dollar amount on the right side of the screen by double clicking in the appropriate area. If the pending spots have been sold at a different rate than the one displayed, that rate can be adjusted to reflect a more appropriate rate by double clicking on the rate and entering a new value. After the dollar amount or number of spots has been entered for all dayparts, click on Distribute Spots. After entering all pending, click on the Save button.

What are the load switches in the traffic load screen and what do they do?

Initialize the traffic model prior to load - that means will load traffic model after number of weeks from traffic file are loaded.
Important only non zero traffic - inventory sold data - only non zero inventory from traffic will load all zeros will reference the default traffic model.
Next load switch - import only "greater than" traffic sold data - only percent sold numbers greater than the default traffic model will load.

How do I read the last results box in traffic load screen?

Import - successful or failure
Last attempt - date of last attempt and time
File - file path to traffic
File date/time - date and time of file
Number of weeks loaded at beginning date
Load switches that are marked
Last successful date and time stamp

How do I compare my traffic report to Maxagrid for avails comparison?

When verifying avails make sure the traffic loaded is the same as the traffic report printed. Yield/Inventory Controls/Booked Update/Booked Update tab - click on next under choose week to go to the next full week. Click on the options button - under enter inventory data as - you have the choice of booked, remaining, percent booked, percent remaining. Select the option that applies to your report. Click Apply - compare to traffic report.

What is interface setup and what does it do?

This is where the interface for your traffic system is selected and system control parameters are set along with the traffic links being built to link your traffic to Maxagrid.

I am changing traffic systems - what should I do?

Contact Maxagrid client services at 972-241-2110.

Loading multiple traffic files

Yield/Inventory Controls/Booked Update/Traffic Load tab
Unmark any load switches - browse to first file - process traffic data import
Select load switch - initialize with traffic model prior to data load - browse to second file - process traffic data import - Save.

I change a load switch or the data path to the traffic file and hit save and it does not save the changes - why?

The settings on this screen will not save until a successful traffic load has been done. Click on 'process traffic data import' and if the application gives a response of 'Import: Successful', then the application will have saved any setting changes that have been made.

 

 

 

 
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