Best practice to Consolidate forecast before loading into ASCP

Hi,
Can anyone suggest best practice to consolidate forecast that is in spreadsheets. Forecast comes from Sales, Finance and Operations. Then consolidated forecast should be loaded into ASCP.
Is there any way to automate the load?
Is Oracle S&OP best product out there?
Do we need Oracle Demand management also?
Regards

Forecast comes from Sales, Finance and Operations (spreadsheets)
-> Using integration interfaces to load the data in to three different series sales fcst, finance fcst and ops fcst
Then consolidated forecast should be loaded into ASCP.
-> create a workflow/ii to load the consolidated of the 3 series
So this can be done in DM.
Also a standard workflow exists in S&OP to publish consensus forecast to ASCP which accomplish your objective.

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