Assignement of Forecast Profile at customer level

Hi All,
Does anyone know if it is possible to assign a forecast profile to a specific customer (that has multiple materials assigned to it). If I try to do this /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 I get an error message.
I want to have all materials linked to this forecast profile but don't want to assign one individually.
Does this make sense?
Cheers,
Rumi

Hi
It should be possible to do it.
You can create a respective selection in Planning book for products with respective customer.
Than using /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 - Assign Forecast Profiles to a Selection , you can assign respective forecast profile for this selection.
Please find enclosed herewith the more information regarding it.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm41/helpdata/en/1d/2f503c8f233835e10000000a11402f/content.htm
Please let us know if it help you. You can also let us know what error you are getting.
Thanks
Amol

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I got 6 material and two master profile whuch used different strategy say 56 and 11.
What I want to do is mat1,mat2 and mat3 to profile 1 and other material to profile 2.
I went to t-code /sapapo/msdp_fcst2 .Then I went to selection management and gave all 3 sku under product and assigned that selection to profile 1.similarly I did for remaining material.
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By default the system look only for the exact selection.
However when you assign your selection you can use the flag "All Related Selections" or "also similar selection", which is just after the "display column".
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"If you set this indicator, the system uses this profile assignment for all subordinate selections. For example, if the selection is PRODUCT = P1, the profile is also used for PRODUCT =P1, LOCATION = 0001. You can however specify more detailled assignments to other profiles without invalidating the more generic assignment."
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I would like to assign a forecast at a customer level that has multiple products that roll up to this one customer. Is this possible? When I enter one customer in the selection profile and load all of the item and then try to assign a forecast profile, it does not seem to hold the forecast profile and does not appear in the Assign Forecast Profiles to Selection (/SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2).
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I think it should be possible to Assign Forecast Profiles to Selection via T-code (/SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2). Please create respective selection in planning book as per your requirement. Then go to above T-code only give respective planning area and execute.
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Please read the following thread from SDN will give you more information about it.
Setting in Mass processing activity
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          OTHERS       = 2.
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