Forecasting in DP: At aggregate level or at detailed level?

[former_member243834]

Hello All,

I have selection ID in APO DP 4.0 comprising of may products. I forecast them as a whole using some forecast method (may be seasonality method). How SAP DP forecasts? Does it individually forecast for each product or does it forecast at aggregate level? Has someone analyzed and come across such situation?

Thanks and Best Regards, Manoj

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Manoj,

The concept of selection and aggregation is very impotant in APO. Take an example:

You have a selection for packsize "Display SKU's under packsize A. Say there are 10 SKU's. Now when you run the forecast in the background, you need to define the selection and aggregation level. So for the same selection, if you have defnied the aggregation as SKU, the forecast job will for each SKU. However if "packsize" is selected in aggregation, the forecast will run at packsize level.

In the case of the interactive planning, the selection defines the aggregation level. Suppose you have loaded the selection described above and loaded for all SKU, the forecast will run for the entire packsize (aggregation across all SKU's). However to forecast individually in interactive planning, you need to load the SKU's one by one and run the forecast.

Regards,

Kedar

[former_member243834 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Kedar and Srinivas,

Is there any way to run the forecast at detailed level in interactive planning as well?

Also in above example of Kedar if I select some 10 Packs in one selection id then will the forecast run for all 10 packs as a whole?

Thanks and Best Regards, Manoj

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy · Accepted solution]

Dont think its possible in interactive planning without customization. One work around is to provide a macro push button (user exit macro) in interactive planning, that could dynamically take the selection ID as an input and run forecasting in background at desired level.

Hope that helps.

Srinivas

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy]

If you have selected multiple products and are running stat forecast interactively, it will run at total level. A good way to find at what level you are running the forecast is to switch to graph in Forecasting view which displays a title in the graph. The title of the graph displays the level at which forecast is run.Run the forecast at selection level and at individual cvc level and observe the title of the graph.