Can Demantra Forecast at a National level?

Good afternoon Forum,
I posted a thread about a month ago and am back again to hear some more good advice and information. I work in a business group which supplies spare parts nationally through regional distribution centers for a large industrial equipment installed base. Despite me being against this, our management has decided to use Demantra to forecast parts usage at the National level and then force down to the regional distribution centers to take a percentage of parts based on past percentage of the total, rather than roll up the individual regional forecasts to create a total.
My question is can Demantra be set to do this? What would it take? Besides being less accurate at a regional level, what other drawbacks are there?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
Best regards,
ABoyNamedJoe

Hi Maggie,
To solve the proble, I think the best way is to create something like dummy entity, which is usually called adjustment entity as Alwin mentions.
Please remember not making any child entity of the adjustment entity.  Otherwise, the adjustment entity won't be base-level member anymore, and you can not post data.
Hope it helps.
Atsushi

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