APO DP - use of forecast strategy 60 (copy history)

I am using APO DP V5.
I need to understand how forecast strategy 60 (copy history) works.
Suppose I have a three year forecast horizon.
Can I use this to copy from last year's history into each of these 3 years?
Thanks,
Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Hi Bob.
The answer to your question is no. 12 months of history will only generate 12 months of forecast.
I would suggest that if this was a requirement then a macro could be used to generate such a forecast.
Hope this helps.
Mark

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I am using APO DP V5.
In my planning area I have one set of forecast settings specifying a forecast key figure x, corrected history key figure, corrected forecast key figure, ex post key figure.
I have two master forecast profiles, one specifying forecast key figure x, another specifying a different forecast key figure y. They use univariate profiles which specify hsitory key figures a and b respectively.
If I run a forecast using the profile specifying forecast key figure x, all the key figures are populated correctly. If I now run a forecast using the profile specifying forecast key figure y, I see that the forecast key figure is populated correctly, but the corrected history, corrected fcst and ex post are not repopulated.
So, I assume I should have 2 different sets of forecast settings, each with their own set of connected key figures.
Is this correct?
Thanks,
Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Srinivas,
Thanks for your reply.
The key question is this:
If I have my two separate forecast key figures X and Y (based on history A and B), do I need 2 separate 'forecast settings' for the planning area,eg:
1st set:Fcst key fig X, corrected hist key fig D, corrected fcst key fig E, ex post F
2nd set: Fcst key fig Y, corr hist G, corr fcst H, ex post I
I think yes is the answer, to ensure that I have separate sets of data for my two sets of forecasts.
Regards,
Bob.

Copy history as the forecast result

Hi Experts,
Has anyone ever use the forecast model that copying the past 12 months history as the future period forecast result in PP forecast model?
I know this function is availbale in APO DP, But I want to use this function in R3 not in APO.
thank you in advance!

Hi, here is the steps by step procedure to create SOP flexible plan along
with trasaction codes. Let me know if you have further problems
S&OP Flexible Planning Checklist
      Step #
     Description
      1
     Create Field Catalogue MC18
      2
     Create Info Structure MC21
      3
     Create Update Rules for Characteristics and Key Figures MC24
      4
     Activate Update Rules OMOZ
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     Create Planning Type for Info Structure Planning Table MC8A
      8
     Generate Master Data and generate proportional factors MC9A
      9
     Create Planning Hierarchy MC63
      10
     Create Forecast Profile MC96
      11
     Create Planning Activity MC8T
      12
     Setup Mass Processing Job to generate forecast MC8D then MC8G
      13
     Maintain all Material Master records with unit of measure conversions
so that the planning table can aggregate materials into a common unit of
measure. MM02
      14
     Apply OSS patch program that enables visibility of all nine hierarchy
planning levels in planning table. (Check version 4.5 and prior)
      15
     Set up program to collect Historical transaction information (Need
Custom ABAP program to populate the SOP table with historical data)
      16
     Run Monthly Sales Forecast MC8D
      17
     Transfer to COPA (if applicable)
      18
     Run COPA Analysis
      19
     Transfer forecast to Demand Management MC94 (Extra Menu -> Transfer to
DM)
      20
     Demand Management receive the updated Sales Forecast quantities MD61
-Farrukh

APO SPP: No Historical Forecast visible in transaction /SAPAPO/SPPFCSTTRACK

Hello
I am trying to view historical forecast data via transaction /SAPAPO/SPPFCSTTRACK in APO SPP. However i get the message "No hist. fcst time series can be determined".
The forecast strategy is correctly assigned to the product & the standard deviation period is populated as 12 months.
The forecast periodicity is months.
When I execute the forecast using planning service manager or interactively, it correctly calculates the forecast in future as well as ex post forecast in the past. I believe the historical forecast is calculated immediately with the forecast run.
Can anyone help to identify if some setting is missed or any specific planning service is required to be executed to enable historical forecasting. Thanks in advance

Hi,
If the transaction /SAPAPO/SPPFCSTTRACK does not provide any information regarding Historical Forecast data (while you have already performed the forecast for the certain location product) then you probably haven't created a new forecast with a different model. For example, if you created the first forecast with Moving Average then you need to change the Forecast Strategy to an another one (or run Automatic Model Selection which should also select a different strategy). In case when the new Forecast Strategy differs to the previous one, then the appropriate trigger (SPP_FCSTMODEL_CHANGE) will be created for recalculation of the Historical Forecast. Of course, if the trigger is created, you also need to run a PSM service for the recalculation which should be configured for the location product you need to process.
(You can find more information regarding this [here|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/43/300e47bd9e2227e10000000a422035/frameset.htm].)
Best Regards,
Zsolt
Edited by: Zsolt Csoka on Jul 14, 2011 11:06 AM

Can anyone let me know how does the system calculate forecast strategy?

Hi all,
I am new in Demand planning,, I can see a couple of Forecast strategy used in the production. I would like to know how does the system does the calculation for the forecasting strategies like
36     Median method
13     Moving average
94     Linear regression
etc.
Can anyone pls guide me how does the system do the calculation and how to validate those calculations!!
Thanks
Pooja

Hi Pooja,
The below link will contain the detailed list of all forecast strategies alongwith how
it will be calculated alongwith the formulas
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/EN/ac/216b6e337b11d398290000e8a49608/frameset.htm
Please confirm whether this helps you to resolve your query
Regards
R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

APO DP-Different univarate forecasts -- how to obtain forecast error MAD ?

Hello all,
I have a question regarding 'forecast errors' when a univariate forecast was executed.
The requirement is:
I have a planning book/data view with 5 keyfigures for forecast 1 to 5 and 5 keyfigures for MAD 1 to 5.
Forecast1
MAD1
Forecast2
MAD2
Forecast_n
MAD_n
The idea is to calculate 5 different forecasts and evaluate them (for example with MAD).
One out of the 5 forecasts will be copied then to another keyfigure ( = "Statistical forecast").
In the 'Interactive Demand Planning' I push the button to execute 'univariate forecast'.
I let forecast create for keyfigure "Forecast1" based on historical data.
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When I have then every MAD-value from the respective forecast (1 to 5) in the dataview I can use a macro to manually or automatically choose which one will be copied to "Statistical Forecast".
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Edited by: Dominik Ritter on Feb 9, 2009 5:46 PM

Hi Visu,
thank you very much for your answer!
I will check your solution with a developer (I do not develop).
As I understand I can then use this in an BADI/User exit macro.
Another strange thing is:
When I use SE16 with table /SAPAPO/FCSTACCU and let me list all the content --> I copy PROPID from this table and want to use it explicitly in the selection screen of SE16 to show me the one entry --> it fails because in some way the long key (PROPID) is not recognized.
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Forecasting Strategy feasibility.

Hi All,
I need to check feasibility of one particular scenario.
I have 100 Materials for which I need to Forecast. I need to calculate best Forecast strategy for all Material with calculation of Forecasting Error.
Correct me if I am wrong: We can get the Best Forecasting Strategy by adding all the Univariate Profile with different Forecasting Strategy in the Composite Profile Tab.
Now my requirement:
1. I have 100 SKUs. Each individual SKU has different historical data. Now I cant run Univariate Profile for each individual SKU separately and also run the Composite Profile to find out the best Forecast. I need to find is there a way to run the Forecasting Strategy for all SKUs separately something like mass run together?
To be very precises i need to run Forecast Strategy for all 100 SKUs for their individuals Historical Data simultaneously.
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your final solution will depend on the weightage of the performance of the forecast run vs the accuracy of it
If you are focussing on the performance use Auto 1 during go live. It will definitely be faster.
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High value products
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Message was edited by: JJCoke

Thanks ed2345!
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