Retail Marketer Advisor (RMA)
RMA takes the guesswork out of consumption forecasting. RMA gives you the knowledge necessary to confidently predict and “true-up” the gas consumption of monthly-read meter customers served by multiple Marketers in a full retail access environment.
Advanced forecasting in an easy to use package
Forecasters easily interact with RMA through the familiar look-and-feel of a Microsoft® Windows-based graphical user interface. Consumers of enterprise-wide, forecast knowledge can view results through an easy-to-use web browser interface. RMA can be operated on your desktop or through a corporate Intranet.
Powered by a forecasting engine that operates on a database containing gate station actual sendout histories, individual monthly read meter histories and customer usage data, Retail Marketer Advisor provides you with the ability to:
- Forecast consumption on an individual customer basis
- Bias a forecast by use of a rolling average from a previous period comparison of forecasts to actual usages
- Aggregate individual customer consumption forecasts to the marketer level
- Communicate and publish data using web-based intranet and internet technology
- Create multiple temperature zones for easy adjustment of geographic-based customer groups
- Track recommended daily nominations and actual daily consumption at the marketer level
- Track each marketer’s history and billing with a customer
- “True-up” nominated volumes and actual monthly takes by the marketer
Retail Marketer Advisor takes the guesswork out of daily consumption and aids in providing recommended daily nominations to Marketers.
Forecasting capabilities
Forecasters easily interact with the Retail Marketer Advisor through the familiar look-and-feel of a Microsoft® Windows-based graphical user interface. They interact with Marketers through an Internet web site that increases effective communication between Marketer and LDC and also displays trends in nominations versus true-up for more efficient nominations. Consumers of enterprise-wide forecast knowledge can view results through an easy-to-use web browser interface.
Easy-to-use interface
Approaching a more competitive marketplace, RMA provides LDCs with a system that allows the marketers the ability to accept recommendations and to nominate daily volumes of gas for packets of monthly-metered customers. To effectively manage these supply demands, LDCs are assisting the marketers in forecasting gas consumptions through the maintenance, review and “true-up” of daily nominations and daily consumption trends. RMA provides the means to use existing information and eliminate any non-precise variables allowing the end nomination recommendation more true and accurate.
Effective solution
Approaching a more competitive marketplace, RMA provides LDCs with a system that allows the marketers the ability to accept recommendations and to nominate daily volumes of gas for packets of monthly-metered customers. To effectively manage these supply demands, LDCs are assisting the marketers in forecasting gas consumptions through the maintenance, review and “true-up” of daily nominations and daily consumption trends. RMA provides the means to use existing information and eliminate any non-precise variables, allowing the end nomination recommendation more true and accurate.