Forecasting materials

Hi all
Some questions on forecasting
1) When you do forecasting for a material is there a way you can change the forecast in mass like something similar to a planning table?
d) Is there a way you can d/load the forecast for a group of materials on a excel document?
thanks a lot

Dear,
MPBT is used for background run and MP38 for mass forecast run. We run MP38 (program RMPROG01) in the background to calculate the reorder level and the safety stock level. On the basis of consumption value manitain in material master.
use user exit MCP20001 to read non SAP data into planning table
You can upload the forecast parameters from the excel sheet into SAP , using the BAPI "BAPISPP0007_FCST_PRF_CHANGE'
Hope clear to you.
Regards,
R.Brahmankar

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