Calculation to Forecast Abandoned Rates (or Call Handled / Capacity) Related Articles What Is the Difference Between an Abandoned, a Missed and a Lost Call? How to Predict Call Abandon Rates Based on Service Level How to Bring Down Your Call-Abandon Rates Call Centre Forecasting Methods: How to Forecast Workload © gearstd - Adobe Stock - 316802330 656 Filed under - Forum Calculation to Forecast Abandoned Rates (or Call Handled / Capacity) Hi I have a excel based formula that forecasts the capacity to handle at interval level although it seems quite different to what we see in the WFM systems. Can anyone share one they currently use? Question asked by Sanjay Answer for Calculation to Forecast Abandoned Rates (or Call Handled / Capacity) So, you are wanting to predict what your abandonment rate would be based on how your staffing compares to your forecasted volumes? I have done something like that before. I believe I did a regression analysis to see the inverse correlation between Occupancy and Abandons (did the same with SL’s and ASA’s and such as well). So, you take your historical abandon % at various historical Occupancy levels. Hopefully there is a strong inverse correlation between the two so you can predict one by knowing the other. So, if you can predict how busy your agents will be, you are then predicting what % of your calls are abandoned. You predict how busy your agents will be by taking the number of agent FTE you will have on the phones (taking into account shrinkage) and compare that to the estimated talk time you are predicting. Or something similar to that. Hope that helps. With thanks to Kory Answer for Calculation to Forecast Abandoned Rates (or Call Handled / Capacity) In order to do this you will need to create a call abandon curve. This article should help you to do this. https://www.callcentrehelper.com/how-to-bring-down-your-call-abandon-rates-50805.htm With thanks to Jonty Author: Jonty Pearce Published On: 12th Apr 2022 - Last modified: 6th May 2022 Read more about - Forum Recommended Articles What Is the Difference Between an Abandoned, a Missed and a Lost Call? How to Predict Call Abandon Rates Based on Service Level How to Bring Down Your Call-Abandon Rates Call Centre Forecasting Methods: How to Forecast Workload Contact Centre Reports, Surveys and White Papers Get the latest exciting call centre reports, specialist whitepapers and interesting case-studies. Choose the content that you want to receive. Contact Centre Reports, Surveys and White Papers Invites to exclusive Webinars & Events Weekly Newsletter