Forecast Model in Demand planning and E book Sap trainingcourse

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Dear Experts ,

I am Exploring differnt Forecast Model , like constant

model, trend model, seasonal model, trend and seasonal model, Croston method

with exponential smoothing, linear regression, and causal models with multiple

linear regression (MLR).

is there any SAP links or material or course availabe to learn more about Forecasting Techniques that we can use in Demand Planning in APO

if you have idea please help me to learn .. i am really starving for this techniques

Thanks in advance

Cheers & Thanks

Raj

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Raj

Below link will give you entire information on forecasting models, forecasting accuracy technequues etc,:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/33/437a37b70cf273e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm

For MLR refer the following link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/ac/216ba4337b11d398290000e8a49608/frameset.htm

Which is the best model to use:

You should try running forecasting using various model(seasonal, seasonal linear, linear, constant etc) and comapre

the forecast accuracy and find out which one is the best suitable.

Another way is to choose auto model which will select the best possible forecast strategy and give the result.

I hope thos will help you.

Please let us know if you require any more information.

Thanks

Amol