Rolling forecast and ZBB

Hi experts,
I want to know more about these two terms. How is it implemented in planning? I only know that :
Rolling forecast - will try to maintain the forecasting period. For example, if period is from jan to dec and once the month (say jan 2011) passes by, we will take into account (Jan 2012) so that we will always be forecasting for 12 months.
ZBB - Budgeting would begin from ground zero or zero base (Past data is not considered). That is all I know. Kindly, correct me on these two concepts if I am wrong.
Thanks

I have had a handful of clients do Zero Based budgets. Typically if you talk to the finance transformation gurus they will say that Zero based budgeting is not optimal - it's simply too time consuming. However, sometimes it is necessary.
The reason why a company's budget isn't just a snapshot of its rolling forecast, is because of change management, politics and internal pushback. The Budget process can often define how bonuses are paid out (over/under budget). I'm a fan of using your most recent forecast to seed your budget. Many forecasts are done at such a high-level they cannot be used to drive the budget, and the prior year's budget would either A) Require too much tweaking up/down, B) It makes politics all the more relevant in an organization - justifying why you need an extra 20k/month to run your department.
In reality, there is only a handful of options when we talk about budgeting - and the option each company goes with is championed by the CFO/VP of Finance, and pushed from the top down. Each has their merits.

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Hi Experts,
Currently i have a problem in the Query Designer. Any help or suggestion will be very much appreciated.
The system that we have is BI 7.
What we want to have is a rolling forecast for the Profit and Loss Account.
It means that we will lock the previous periods against changes and open the coming periods for planning. In the query all 12 months have to be displayed.
For that purpose, I created 1 structure with 2 selections.
The 2 selections are
1. Closed Periods, which restricted to 0fiscper 001.2007-003.2007
2. Open periods, which restricted to 0fiscper 004.2007-012.2007.
Then I drill it down with 0fiscper so that I can see 12 months.
The problem is now that when I do not surpress the zeros, then I will see 2 times 12 months instead of only 12 months.
But on the other hand, I cannot surpress zero since I also want to see and be able to do planning on the zero values accounts (for example on the open periods).
Does anyone know how to solve this problem, so that I only see 12 months in my query, but also be able to see zero values on the open periods?
Otherwise, does anyone have any other solution to solve the rolling forecast? (any links or documentation?)
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Fen

Hi Venkat,
In the new BI Integrated, we can close and open the periods by put the indicator for close and open periods on the query designer.
The report that I am aiming for will look like this:
Closed Periods                               Open Periods
January         February      March     April       May      June    July ...... December
For that I created 1 Structure with 2 Selections.
The selections is restricted as follows:
Closed Periods --> 0fiscper 001.2007-003.2007
Open Periods ---> 0fiscper 004.2007-012.2007
and then I drill it down with 0fiscper.
But instead of giving me the periods that I restricted it gave me the following:
Closed Periods                    Open Periods
January   February March    January    February    March
Best regards,
Fen

Rolling Forecast in HFM

Hi,
I am new to HFM and wanted to know what is meant by "rolling forecast" in HFM? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

You would want to pull the data from HFM at a higher level, such as parent entities and Parent Curr Total value. You could put these amounts in base members of Essbase or Planning and then produce your forecast off of them.
It is possible to do a rolling forecast entirely within HFM, but it would involve extensive Rules. Basically you would write rules to apply forecast logic to the actuals and populate a new scenario with the result. This becomes difficult with more detail in the forecast logic.

Rolling Forecast in BPS

Hi,
I have problem with creating the rolling forecast with Actual data.
For example I have the forecast data being dynamic with a variable attached [006.2007 to 012.2007] and have actual data with a variable [001.2007 to 005.2007]. I have the forecast variable in the Planning Level and have selected dynamic in the layout - which works, but for actuals I'm not getting it to be dynamic without using the offsets and creating each one separately. What I want is having both being dynamic so that the Admin person only needs to change the variables then the layout. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks alot, that was it!!!, I didn't think you could have set the variable when SAP turned the field grey, guess they have changed it for BPS.
I will award you the full points, I only have one final issue with the rolling forecast, is that the titles in column's all have the starting value from the variable and not the dynamic value.
Actual : 001.2006 to 004.2006 only show's 001.2006 for all four columns
Forecast : 005.2006 to 12.2006 only show's 005.2006 for the remainder.
The actual data is correct for the periods it's just the text headings which are incorrect.
I have set the following in the layout,Dynamic for 0FISCPER and text replacement Key.
On the variable I have Text Replacement as Characteristic value... but it still doesn't default to the values I was expecting.
Thanks once again for solving this for me.

12 months rolling forecast

I am trying to write a calc script that should be able to do 12 months rolling forecast in one of our cubes.
The months are the fourth gen of dimension "Period", "Year" has FY07, FY08, FY09.... in it and the "Scenario" has projection, budget, forecast, actual, etc.
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1) put 0fiscper in the heading but your variables for the dynamic columns need to be set to the right type of text heading for that or you set it to characteristic value.
2) I could not get quarterly totals as
P1 P2 P3 Q1 P4 P5 P6 Q2 etc since the dynamic columns does not allow for BPS totals on quarterly in BPS layout definition but I use local Excel formula in layout definition in that at the last page of the layout definition, I count out 12 columns in the heading to figure out where the monthly amounts P12 ends and the following 4 columns I set up 4 Excel formula totals for sum(p1column:p3column), sum(p4column:p6column) etc. I tend to put the annual total after the 4 quarterly totals and specify the excel formulas as sum(p1column:p12column). If you want it even nicer since you don't know the number of rows of data, you would actually have something like:
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Currency Translation - Rolling Forecast

Hi,
Scenario is: We're doing 13 months rolling forecast which goes beyond one year. When currency translation happens, as part of default logic, it converts the records only for the year of forecast (selected in current view) and not beyond the current view year.
For instance, if selected forecast period 2011.JAN, we expect user to input numbers from 2011.JAN through to 2012.JAN. System run the currency conversion package and translate records for periods 2011.JAN - 2011.DEC, and doesn't convert 2012.JAN because it is the next year (not selected in current view).
Following is the code I'm using in the FX Conversion package:
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Can you please suggest any resolution, i.e. how I can enhance the code to convert records whatever I get from runtime (template) and not just restricted to CV Year?
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Shabbar

Hi Shabbar,
While executing Currency translation, if you can select 13 months (say,from 2011.Jan to 2012.Jan ) in data manager parameter, Conversion executes for all 13 months as %TIME_SET% take value from your data manager prompt.
If you are identify %TIME_SET% based on Year in Category dimension, you can try below code.
*SELECT(%YEAR%, [YEAR], CATEGORY, "[ID]='FORECAST'")
*SELECT(%TIMEMBR%,[ID],TIME,"[YEAR]=%YEAR%")
*XDIM_MEMBERSET TIME=%TIMEMBR%,%YEAR+1%.JAN
//standard currency translation code.
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Pls post here if you require further clarification.
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Rolling Forecast

Hi,
I posted the same question at
Re: Rolling forecast budget application
In the rules/Calcs, What is the best way to run the calcs only for open periods?
By using a flag to indicate each open period
Or
For example in year1, I have actuals from Jan:Aug
By using 3 substitution variables like
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&yr2Range= Jan:Dec
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If I use 3 variables like above how can I fix periods in the calc depending on year?
Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Hi Krishna,
You cannot make both fixes and use the exact same lines of logic similar to
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/* logic */
ENDFIX
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The way fix statements work is they have the widest include you have performed meaning even though you have a few months in &ForecastMonths that YearTotal will include all 12 months for both &StartYear and &NextYear.
What you can do assuming this is a business rule is make a macro and then call the macro.
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ENDFIX
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%Macro_Perform_Logic();
ENDFIX
A macro is basically exactly like a rule with the exception that you can include macros in rules or other macros and you can pass parameters to macros as well. In this instance the macro does not require parameters.
Regards,
-John

Regarding SAP BPC Rolling Forecast Template

Hi,
How are you?. I have created annual budget templates and top to botoom contribution templates.
Now my requirement is Rolling forecast template to create.
Can anybody please help me out of how to create rolling forecast template.
Thank you and please provide sample Document.

Hi Srini,
Please download the below mention document:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1-Py2CC_vJBYjJjMjY0MTgtM2UxZS00MDRmLTllZjktOWRmZWEzOGNjNzY4&hl=en_US
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Anil

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While installing Acrobat XI Pro, the installation automatically rolls back and I get the message "The wizard was interrupted before Adobe Acrobat XI Pro (11.0.07) could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation a

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Local roll area and Roll area

Please refer to following contents from TADM12_2:
1. Virtual Memory includes local memory and shared memory.
2. Local memory is associated with individual work processes.
3. Local work processes memory is for: ABAP load; Data, stack; Buffer for database transfer; Local roll area; Local paging area.
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Hi experts
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warm regards
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warm regards
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hai
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Hi,
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