Customer Forecast Management vs. Collaborative Demand  Planning

Hello,
Currently my client is trying to replace 40-50 raw excel format forecast which they receive from multiple customers with SAP APO.
They use a consolidated format and upload it into another 3rd party tool currently.
My question is which best suits the purpose in short term as they are very limited on resources. I would also like to know the difference between using Customer forecast management vs. Collaborative demand planning in this context.
Thank you all,
Sai.

You can use the GATP functionality known as Product Allocation for this scenario. This will basically mean that you need to maintain product allocations against each customer in your GATP planning book and every time you create a sales order in R/3, the quantity will be checked against the allocated quantity in APO GATP. If the quantity exceeds the allocated quantity for that given month, then sales order cannot be confirmed.
You will need to explore this funcionality in APO GATP and this should help your requirement.
Cheers,
Srinidhi

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