Demand planning help links

Hi Gurus,
I am new to Demand planning and forecasting, Please can you give suggest me some help.sap.com links to demand planning. I am BI technical, I am going to involve in demand planning implementation.
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Regards,
Reddy.

Hi
Go through following link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/8f/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
Regards
Sujay

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venkat

Hi Venkat,
Service.sap.com is unfortunately not always organized with logical menu paths. Here is a link, though, that might help you:
http://Service.sap.com/solutionmanagerbp
and then clik on the "Best practices for solution operations" link.
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http://Service.sap.com/quicklinks
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my customer is a wholesale company. They want to use a component in SAP ERP (not SAP APO), in order to make demanding planning and forecasting for the materials , quantities and dates they should make the purchases in order to cover the demand of their customers. What is the component that should be used in order to achieve this?

MRP can be used without production planning. SOP and Demand Management are not Production.
Nevetheless, if you want a simpler planning cycle, provided that you understand its ads and cons, you could go for Consumption Based Planning MRP.
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Hi rajib,
If you are new to APO & want understand Demand Planning steps then you can use SAP Help.
Pls go through following link. You can find all the steps.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/8f/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
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Please give me the link where I can learn about Macros of Demand Planning in SCM 7.o.
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Balu,
Macros are used for performing complex calculations easily. They are basically used to manipulate the Key Figure values. They are also used for genertaing alerts. You can execute macros either interactivekly or by a background job. Go terough the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/17/a5216532a111d398260000e8a49608/frameset.htm
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Forecast Model in Demand planning and E book Sap trainingcourse

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I am Exploring differnt Forecast Model , like constant
model, trend model, seasonal model, trend and seasonal model, Croston method
with exponential smoothing, linear regression, and causal models with multiple
linear regression (MLR).
is there any SAP links or material or course availabe to learn more about Forecasting Techniques that we can use in Demand Planning in APO
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Hi Raj
Below link will give you entire information on forecasting models, forecasting accuracy technequues etc,:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/33/437a37b70cf273e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
For MLR refer the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/ac/216ba4337b11d398290000e8a49608/frameset.htm
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You should try running forecasting using various model(seasonal, seasonal linear, linear, constant etc) and comapre
the forecast accuracy and find out which one is the best suitable.
Another way is to choose auto model which will select the best possible forecast strategy and give the result.
I hope thos will help you.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/a3/7ed240caeb752ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
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We are about to implement Demand Planning SCM 5.0 for one of our businesses. As a part of requirements gathering, I am supposed to prepare a questionaire that business would fill in. Does anyone have any document on this that you would not mind sharing with me? What sort of questions do I ask? I am kind of new to DP and any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Nar,
Few questions for yor intial start up, you can go ahead with the similar questions how they want it after APO -DP.
1.     Which vertical of business you are belong to? Specify the same.
Ex: Manufacturing industry u2013 Pharmaceuticals.
2.     What are the automated tools currently used for the planning purpose?
3.     What is an objective of going to SAP APO-DP?
4.     What are the challenges faced with the current tool?
5.     How long the business users are using the current tools?
6.     What are the advantages of the current tools?
7.     Is there any Manual planning method is used for division of business or any business geographical location?
8.     What are current data taken in to consideration for the demand planning?
9.     Which are the departments providing an input for the planning now?
10.     What are the base characteristics used for the current planning? Ex: Product, Location.
11.     What is a detailed level of data are stored or reported?
12.     What are the forecast methods used?
13.      What are the factors considered in the planning? Ex: Seasonal, Climate, economical ect.,
14.     How the new product introductions are handled now?
15.     Does the planning carried out on geographical based or product line or division based?
16.     What is an aquiracy of statistical forecast?
17.     Is there any promotional planning and life cycle planning are done now?
18.     What is a frequency of planning? How it is expected to be in future ?
19.     Does that a calendar weeks or months are followed in the planning or any customized calendars are followed? If customized what is that and Why it is used?
20.     Is there any regular back up is taken after the planning run? If so how is it carried out?
21.     Any reporting tool is linked with the Demand Planning?
22.     How demand planning results are analyzed and how the decisions are made?
23.     What are the kinds of decisions are made after every planning run?
24.     Who are all taking the decisions?
25.     How many locations manufacturing is carried out and how many distribution centers are there?
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Business flow of demand planning

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please any one tell me : the business flow of demand planning .
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Hi Ronald,
This is a good place to start:
<http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/78/bca554465f11d3983a0000e8a49608/frameset.htm>
If you have some practical experience with demand planning in general, a lot of the info at that link will seem like common sense and you'll likely be able to fill in the blanks. However, if you are starting from scratch then it may be too general to orient you sufficiently.
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SAP SNP and Demand Planning

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Check these.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5f229690-0201-0010-84ba-9ee5a8958a05
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4fe5d590-0201-0010-6c8d-ada86492cf11
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/BBLibrary/documentation/B84_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_DE.doc
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/html/BW/DemPlanAnal.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/bi/apo%2b-%2bbw%2badhoc%2breporting
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MC94 - demand planning

Hi,
I am new to demand planning. Could anyone tell me how to use the transaction MC94 and explain about the demand planning procedure.
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Edited by: Aparna RJ on Aug 19, 2008 1:02 PM

Hi Aparna,
I guess its SDP94. This t code /n/sapapo/sdp94 is for Interactive Demand Planning where all of seletions ids assigned for users in the whole business process and will be convininant for visibility of relavant demand with specified bucket.
I couldnt't here MC94. Any way Regarding MC94 in which scenario u are going to use plz give reply.
And regarding Demand Planning Process Plz go through the following link. And refer each and every thing inside.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm2007/helpdata/en/8f/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
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Error Message When Opening Interactive Demand Planning

Hello Experts,
I have one user who is receiving the following error message when trying to open Interactive Demand Planning Workbook. Only one user is experiencing this issue. Has anyone run into this before?
GP: Graphics product not available in this system; see long text
Message no. APPLG225
Diagnosis
The required graphics product is not available on the current platform. It is either not permitted, or it does not work properly.
The application does not have a fallback strategy.
Procedure
Application/Specialists
Contact your developers to see if a fallback strategy can be implemented.
Development
Check the call method of the graphics proxy. If the graphics product is not mandatory (parameter FORCE_PROD), then the graphics proxy can select a different graphics product that is available on this platform.

Dear Adam,
The prerequisite for graphics in planning folders is the SAP Internet Graphics Server. The connection between the SAP Internet Graphics Server and the system in which you operate BPS must take place using an RFC destination of the type TCP/IP with the predefined name IGS_DEST_POFO.
Please make sure that your settings are correct and check the online help at:   http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem320bw/helpdata/en/05/
242537cedf2056e10000009b38f936/frameset.htm
Planning Folder
> Editing a Planning Folder: Details
      >Planning Folder: Portfolio Graphic"
Please have a look at the following notes as well that helped to solve problems with the IGS. 454042 IGS: Installing and Configuring the IGS
676532 Dumps in transactions with splitter containers
I hope this helps.
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Issue in creating Duet Demand Planning Sheet on the basis of Dataview

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We are using following landscape
Landscape Details-
 SAPAPO = SCM 700 0002 - SAPKY7002
 Duet 1.5 - 150.700 SP3
 Duet Demand Planning u2013 1000.150.700.3.0 (Server Component), 1000.150.700.3.0 (Client Component)
There are 2 ways available to create Duet Demand Planning Sheet
1. On the basis of existing Demand Planning Scenario
2. On the basis of existing Data views( with SAP macros)
We are able to create Duet planning Sheet with 1 option. But we got erro with second Option that is on the basis od Data view(with macros).
Planning area, Planning Book/Data view and Selection Ids are existing and active.All the Webservices given by SAP are released.
Duet is able to retrive the list of Dataviews avilable for the Planning Area. But it is failing to retrieve the Data View Details the Error is as follow
"No view Details were found Please choose another dataview."
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Data: TYPEID DUET_JAVA_ADDON
Data: SEVERITYCODE 2
Exception of type 'System.Exception' was thrown.
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Any webservices to be applied?
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Thanks & Regards
Rahul

Hi
There are couple of OSS notes, you might have already seen:
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1431661 Duet Demand Planning 1.5 SP4.
Regards
Datta

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Request for information on smart documentation on the integration between Trade Promotion Management and SCM-Demand Planning from an architecture perspective how to configure for the give senario where we from APO demand planning, we provide baseline forecast into TPM and from TPM promotions values can be considered in to APO demand planning: can anybody give me some insight on it.
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SAP has come up with Live cache concept for storage and most important, quick and efficient processing of transactional data. Its a layer between data base and GUI and even the search methods and storage space has been optimized due to its structure. In DP it is used for storage of time series data whereas in SNP it can store both time series and order series data.
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