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title: Pareto Classifications Within Forecast Pro
description: "Start Forecast Pro and open the project, *Tutorial – Pareto*. This project contains forecasts for the cakes and muffins data that we worked with in previous lessons. ![](https://www.forecastpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tut-pareto-0-1024x532.jpg) On the **Home** tab, click the Options icon to invoke the Options dialog box and…"
url: "https://www.forecastpro.com/documentation/forecast-pro-trac/pareto-analysis/pareto-classifications-within-forecast-pro/"
updated: "2024-12-16"
category: TRAC General Operations Tutorials / Pareto Analysis
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# Pareto Classifications Within Forecast Pro

Start Forecast Pro and open the project, *Tutorial – Pareto*. This project contains forecasts for the cakes and muffins data that we worked with in previous lessons.

![](https://www.forecastpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tut-pareto-0-1024x532.jpg)

On the **Home** tab, click the Options icon to invoke the Options dialog box and then select the Pareto tab.

![](https://www.forecastpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ParetoTab.png)

The Pareto tab allows you to specify how the ABC codes should be assigned.

The ***Weighting Basis*** section allows you to indicate whether the ranking should be performed using the history, forecasts or a combination of the two and allows you to set the span for your selection. The codes are assigned to a single level of the hierarchy. The *Hierarchy level* drop-down allows you to pick the level to use.

The ***Ranking Basis*** section allows you to set the thresholds for the classifications.

The ***Volume (%)*** option allows you to set the codes based upon the cumulative volume of each group. For example, if A is set to 80%, B is set to 15% and C is set to 5%, Forecast Pro will first rank all of the items from highest volume to lowest volume and then sequentially place the top ranked items into the A group until their cumulative volume equals or exceeds 80% of the total volume. It will then sequentially place items into the B group until the cumulative volume of the A and B items equals or exceeds 95% (80% + 15%). The remaining items (5% or less of the cumulative volume) are assigned type C.

The ***Series Count (#)***option allows you to assign specific numbers of items to each group. For example, if you had 1,000 items and you set the A group to 100, the B group to 200 and the C group to 700—the 100 highest volume items would be assigned to group A, the next highest 200 items would be assigned to group B and the remaining 700 would be assigned to group C.

The ***Series Count (%)***assigns the specified percentage of the total number of items you have to each group. For example if A is set to 20%, B is set to 50% and C is set to 30%, Forecast Pro will first rank all of the items from highest volume to lowest volume and then sequentially place the top ranked items into the A group until the number of A group items equals 20% of the total number of items. It will then sequentially place items into the B group until the number of B group items equals 50% of the total number of items. The remaining items (30% of the total number of series) are assigned type C.

If selected, the ***Group zero volume*** option will place any items with zero volume into group “D”.

Make sure that your settings match the ones above and click OK.