 Hi everyone, today I'm going to show you how to use the Forecast feature in Excel to demonstrate how a food security organization can forecast inventory needs. This spreadsheet shows a food bank's quantity of donated food over the past year. Using the forecast formula, I ask in January 2024 what value of donations you'll expect this month. I see here we should expect around 252 drink donations. This estimate our canned meat donations this month, so I type equals forecast open parenthesis our desired date comma range of dates on column D, range of dates on column B, close parenthesis. It looks like we can expect 247 cans. I can take these forecasts for each type of food and compare them to my number of families in need.