Forecast with flexible planning

Hi,
We are going to do forecast with flexible planning.I have created a new infostructure and the planning type.We have loaded the sales values into this infostructure manullay thru. a customised program and executed the forecast on these.I have few questions:
1. Do i need to activate forecasting view in the material master? If it is, why?
2. How many months of historical values i have to consider to calculate the next 12 months forecast and how frequently i have to update my infostructure and calculate the forecast?
3. How the basic value/MAD/Error total will be calculated?
4. when using the automatic model selection with procedure 2 ,it will come up with some model.Is there any way where we can see what the model it has selected and the forecast parameters?
Please don't suggest the SAP help links.
Thanks in advance,
Kumar

Hi,
No need to create a forecasting view in the Material master.
as you are using Infostructure, you are exepcted to use the Mass processing for Forecasting.
Define a Forecasting Profile in MC94.
create a Back ground job for executing the forecasting.
Run the joob.
regards
Ratan

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