Demand Planning Ramadan Calender Year

Hi Gurus,
A in forecasting of Demand Planning, The scenario is,
Every year the calender year(Ramadan) is dropping by 11 days followed by the lunsr calender year and the peak sales calculation has to truncate with the existing and future year, How we can predict this.
Please let me know the solution and also let me know if any information needed.
Regards,
Rajan

Hi Rajan,
We follow the fiscal year calender for the same. And this we will define in advance.
Check the OB29 Tcode, infact this can be updated from R/3 also, if you are maintaing the same in R/3.
For sure, the APO fiscal year should always be in line with R/3, i suggest take the finanace experts support, they are more familier with the fiscal year calender.
Yarala

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First key figure has to hold Yearly snap shot and 2nd Key figure has to hold QTY snapshot.
we have constrained production plan & sales plan keyfigures in apo demand planning and the requirement is to extract these 2 keyfigure quaintest into BI.
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Hi Venkat,
Yes, both the key figures are ther in the same planning area.
But my question here is how to get that data into BW? meaning...
If APO/DP does the planning in the month of Sep 2010 for Jan to dec 2011 and the
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APO Demand Planning in Weekly bucket with customized definition

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I would be performing Demand Planning on a weekly bucket. Week starts from Saturday and Ends on Friday. The Planning will be performed for the six future month.
Can anyone suggest, how it can be done and If Fiscal Year Variant has to be used, then what will be the definition of the variant.
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Looking forward to a solution.
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Edited by: Anoop Sahu on Mar 29, 2009 5:14 PM

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Hi,
before to begin: I don't really understand what you are saying: you say the forecast is not use for planning, however your think it is the cause of overstock... how can that be?
I understand the logic for componenents, but not for finish good here
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Of course DP will help you too, and the benefits you emntioned are good.
However I suggest you to do a bigger analysis of your business needs... it looks ot me that you will need more than DP.
You could use SNP to plan your finish good and components (or use a strategy such as planning at assembly level).
If your biggest challenges in inventory level then SNP is the tool that will give you a better visibility here.
I personnally think that DP BOM should be use only is specific cases. You better have to plan your component in SNP, which will be far more flexible.
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Well that is what I think....
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Good afternoon
I have been trying to use (in our test client) the Demand Planning functionality of TEM, I am wanting to create demand based on last year's bookings however I get no results. I have courses, which are firmly booked with attendees on them in last year. Is there a minimum number of courses and/or attendees required before a demand can be created? What am I missing?
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Hi Dawn,
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Business Process: Final Demand Plan Key Figure in the past for APO DP

Hello APO process experts,
I have a BPX question for APO DP process owners, consultants or gurus:
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In Configuration in company code fiscal year variant is April to March.
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Hi Sujoy,
Thanks for reply.
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