Forecast Accuracy Report in BW

Hi All,
Our company is planning to implement Forecast Accuracy reporting within the BW space. Can anyone please provide reference documents or links on how I can start building the solution for this report?
Cheers,
Patvin

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Hi All,
Would like to know if there is any forecast accuracy report in ODP to verify that the forecast is valid. To give an example, if I collect the demand number and upload the forecast to calculate the forecast to order PO. We should know whether the forecast uploaded is valid i.e. is it possible for Oracle to state that this forecast is not correct according to the trend. Is there any exception report to state this kind of behaviour.
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Can some of you provide some info on How I can go ahead with Forecast accuracy report to compare actulas and planned versions . This info we have to receive from APO demand planner . What shold I consider befroe proceeding to these reports . How can I generate data sources and transfer into BW .
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Hi Ananth,
Check Business content Query -
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Forecast accuracy check in R/3 ECC 6.0

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We've designed a Flexible Plng solution for our clients to address a very complex reqt. But as it stands, any good design of Flex Plng (SOP for that matter) is incomplete without a very reliable way to forecast & keep bettering the forecast via regular forecast accuracy checks.
To that end, wanted to know if anyone has worked with tools within R/3 Forecasting that allow us to carry out robust forecast accuracy checks. If yes, pls share your inputs on how this can be achieved..
Inputs in this regards will be greatly appreciated
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Josh

Hi,
Try Installing Application Component Hierarchies
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/b3/c30a0e9c44204eb596c6353c827d2e/frameset.htm
Use RSA9 for this.
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JituK

Cycle Counting Report - Inventory Accuracy Report

Hi All,
Please tell me the clue tables to summarize the cc report as follows -
no. of items inventoried.
no. of items in error.
Quantity variance.
how can i calculate above rquirements?
I have LINK , LINV , LINP , MSEG , MSKPF TABLES but not getting fields exactly to use.
Please Suggest.
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Anuj Saraswat.
Edited by: Anuj Saraswat on Jul 28, 2008 1:13 PM

Dear Anuj
Can you please let us know what do you mean by
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- Quantity variance
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I have to present reporting session to a client on APO BW Reporting I know we dont have outof the box APO reports like R/3 in BI Content.
My question is more on functional area.What are the possible reports can be build in BW from Demand Planning,SNP(Capable to Match and Safety stock).I need to know list of few if possible for my presentation.
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@AK

Hi Ashok,
As long as you are taking a back up of your DP and SNP planning area, you can create any report that is required for your client. Please check with your BW counter part and check with him data of what key figures is being taken as a back up of your planning area.
You may even create a multiprovider which based on DP and SNP cubes and pick data from DP and SNP cubes simultaneoulsy in one single report.
I am afraid I will not be able to guide on the exact reports that can be built since it is completelt depedent upon the client's requirement. However off hand, you can build reports like forecast accuracy reports (DP), projected available stock report etc
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Registering reports into EBS

Hi everybody,
I am trying to register a rdf file into Oracle EBS but I get some error.which its log is at below:
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+-----------------------------
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Any help and document on this subject is helpful.
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Arash

Hi;
Please check below note:
BIS: REP-0788: Warning: The value of restricted LOV parameter P_PERIOD_TYPE is not [ID 402958.1]
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Demand planning Forecast errors and KPI to store results of error

I have following requirement: keep traceabilitity of hypothesis and forecast error results of former mass process .
In comparison tool, we can compare the result of last interactive forecast run but our requirement is to store those result for KPI purpose.
Is it possible without extra development ? ( built not yet done, we are in design phase)
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Christine

Hi Christine,
There is Standard Error analysis functionality available for forecast accuracy reporting.
Please refer to the URL below:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/6f/8812ce03ba4f0ca09ea31a1a3e1f0c/frameset.htm
Please check if these are sufficient for your business needs.
If we want to extarct standard statistical forecast errors( like MAD, MAPE) calculated in the interactive or batch runs of statistical forecasting , then, to my understanding, development is required. A short detail is given below:
We need to develop macros for calculation of Univariate forecast erros : MAD and MAPE. New planning book and data views may be required to becreated Some extra Key figures also will be needed ,used for storing the values.
The macros runs can be run through batch jobs.These calculated forecast errors of MAD and MAPE then can be compared with the system calculated MAD and MAPE during interactive / batch runs.
The error data can be extracted and stored in the infocubes.
Please check and confirm.
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APO-DP Functionalities

Hello
I have few queries regarding the funcionality of APO-DP, these are as under:
1)Are we able to do editing unconstrained demand and creating a revised work-in-process forecast while retaining the original unconstrained submission.
2)Is there functionality available for identifying significant differences for a given month between forecast cycle. Example: January forecast for activity in the month of June vs. Februarys forecast for activity in the same month of June.
3)Is the functionality allows for the creation of a final consensus forecast that accounts for adjustments and constraints.
4)Is distribution of forecaasts possible.
5)Is there any functionality that accounts for a sales channels historical consumption.
6)Is the system functionality able to calculate statistically generated forecast suggestions using various models checked for best fit.
7)Does the system support demand driven replenishment for various inventory stocking points.
Inputs for DDR should be items like safety stock, demand variability, supply variability, lead time, and lead variability.
8)Is the system able to generate report on forecast error and forecast accuracy.
Jitender

Hello Jitender -
I have few queries regarding the funcionality of APO-DP, these are as under:
1)Are we able to do editing unconstrained demand and creating a revised work-in-process forecast while retaining the original unconstrained submission.
-- you can have a copy of the original unconstrained demand by saving the results and also you can revise it.
2)Is there functionality available for identifying significant differences for a given month between forecast cycle. Example: January forecast for activity in the month of June vs. Februarys forecast for activity in the same month of June.
-- You are talking about forecast accuracy report. there is an inbuilt functionality for this report as in where u can show the previous forecast plan for the previous month depending on the business requirement.
3)Is the functionality allows for the creation of a final consensus forecast that accounts for adjustments and constraints.
-- It all depends on how you want to do consensus. Get the specific final forecasted KF from all the planning books from the various department into the consensus planning book.(thats one way of doing it)
4)Is distribution of forecaasts possible.
-- yes it is. you have to look at the proportional factors that are available and distribute the forecast results accordingly.
5)Is there any functionality that accounts for a sales channels historical consumption.
-- did not get this? if you are talking about using historical data for forecast purpose yes you can otherwise how are you going to do forecast?
6)Is the system functionality able to calculate statistically generated forecast suggestions using various models checked for best fit.
-- depending on the forecast model you chose, the smoothing factors u fill in, the system calculates it behind the scene for you and generates the number for you to view.but you ought to understand the logic as to what kind of calculation is done and how it helps you.
7)Does the system support demand driven replenishment for various inventory stocking points.
-- gurus Answer.
Inputs for DDR should be items like safety stock, demand variability, supply variability, lead time, and lead variability.
8)Is the system able to generate report on forecast error and forecast accuracy.
yes the functionality has to be activated.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Suresh Garg

Sample of plan version customer exit code

Hi! We have a requirement for Forecast accuracy report to be able to report comparison of current actual v current month forecast and
forecast 1 month ago, forecast 2 months 2 up to 12 months ago. I'm using Calculated/Restricted Key figures with variables "0FISCYEAR & and 0P_FYEAR" with offset and plan version variable 0VERSION & OP_VERS3 but not restricted. The offset for period/year works but not sure how to link it to a plan version specific to period/year. We don't want the variable for plan version to be fixed. We would like to pull the values of the Cal./Rest key figures for period/year and specific version. In our case, we use versions 1, 2, 3 up to 12 for 2010, and version 1 represents 01/2010 forecast/plan version, version 2 is 02/2010 up to 12/2010 version 12. And for 2011, we use versions 101, 102, 103 up to 112. 101 is version specific for 01/2011, 102 for 02/2011 up to 112 for 12/2011. Same thing for FY 2012, our versions are 201 (representing version for 02/2012) , 202, 203 up to 212. We have the same pattern of versions for 2020 as well (starts from 01 to 12; 101 to 112; 201 to 212 up to 901 to 912).
We would like to be able display the values for 12 rolling months for the version specific to period and year as mentioned above.
Example - in the query, I enter period/ year "03/2011" and version 103 (which represents the version for 03/2011). The result of the query should show up the following CKF/RKF columns:
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2. Current Forecast 03/2011 version 103
3. Forecast 1 month ago 02/2011 version 102
4. Forecast 2 months ago 01/2011 version 101
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6. Forecast 4 months ago 11/2010 version 11
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8. Forecast 6 months ago 09/2010 version 09 up to forecast 12 months ago version 03.
I think we will need a short coding/customer exit for variable version but donu2019t know what needs to be done if using enhancement. I created a variable customer exit for plan version "ZVAR_MULTIVERSION_EXIT". Type of variable is characteristic value, processing type is customer exit, reference characteristic is "0VERSION", other basic settings - multiple values and optional. Please advise if anything I need to change on the settings for plan version variable. Then my next question is how to code this scenario or maybe you can provide a sample abap code and how to link the customer exit to the "ZVAR_MULTIVERSION_EXIT" plan version variable.   Please advise and greatly appreciate any help and input you can provide.
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
Ching

Hi,
Write the code as follows, it will solve your requirement:
"Declare work area WA_RANGE with type same as I_T_VAR_RANGE.
when 'variable_name'.
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          v_year = v_year - 1. "Previous Year
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          append wa_range to e_t_range.
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Hope this helps.
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Joe
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APO Forecast report

I need to calculate std deviation and std error in forecast accuracy in the report. How do I calculate ?
Please help.
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Shalini

Hi,
You can write routines in Update Rules, the formula related thinhs you discuss with your Functional APO team then write, here you need to consider somay constraints..
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How is affected the forecast correctness if I have a monthly bucket, but now I want to have a daily bucket?
This desition could impair the performance drastically?. How many periods the engine has in count to forecast when is a daily system?
If I have daily system however my worksheets could group months or weeks, it isn't true?
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The daily bucket configuration is usually discouraged due to various reasons:-
1.Performance issue. Your data volume would be very high as you would maintain sales record on a daily basis
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3.You may not be able to get a good forecast after 3 months or so (technically feasible to get this for longer duration). An extra tuning exercise would be required
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