Forecast Periods

[Former Member]

Hi

Please give the information regarding the following parameters in forecasting view of the material master

1. History periods

2. forecast periods

3. Periods per season

4. Initialisation periods

5. Fixed periods

What is the impact of these values on MRP, and how it canbe tested on a material and see how it is impacting the MD04.Also pleae provide the information regarding T.codes and all things related to forecasting.

Regards

giri

[Former Member]

Hi,

1. History periods:

The number of historical values the system uses for the forecast.

If fewer historical values exist in the system than specified here, the system includes all the existing values in the forecast.

If this field remains empty, no historical values are used to carry out the forecast. However, this is only possible in the case of manual initialization.

2. forecast periods:

Number of period splits for which a forecast should be created.

3. Periods per season:

Number of periods that belong to a season.

Procedure

You only specify a number

if the forecast model is a seasonal model

if you want the system to carry out a seasonal test

4. Initialisation periods:

Number of historical values that you want to be used for initialization.

If fewer historical values exist in the system than specified here, the system includes all the existing ones.

If the field remains empty, no historical values are used to initialize the forecast.

5. Fixed periods:

Number of periods for which the system will not recalculate the forecast values in the next forecast. The fixed periods start with the initial forecast period.

Use

You enter a value

in order to avoid excessive fluctuations in the forecast calculation or

because production can no longer react to changed planning figures in the specified horizon.

Hope this helps.

Award points if useful.

Regards,

Tejas

[Former Member]

Hi,

I want to know what will be the impact while running MRP with these parameters set, what confidguration has to be done and T.codes for the initial settings.

giri