SCM 5.1 APO -DP Master Forecast Profile - Change Details

Hi All
If existing Master Forecast Profile has been changed by some authorised user, will it possible to view What changes has been made,when,by whom..etc....??...need functionality which should give all details.
Current functionality giving only changed user name and date.
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Poongunran

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Transporting the master forecast profile

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How could i transfer a master forecast profile other than /sapapo/tsobj..
pls answer, vignesh

Hi
As far as I know I think we can only transport the forecast profiles via T-code TSOBJ ,
Otherwise you can create them manually on production system directly, if you have enough authorization on the system. In our case we treat these are softconfigs as business users also want to check the forecast profile and execute the forecasting.
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Amol

No Master Forecast Profile Assigned.

Hello SAPiens,
While creating a Univariate Forecast, the message pop ups NO MASTER PROFILE ASSIGNED. in Interactive Planning,
I have checked the assignment in SDP19, but system doesnot picks in while creating the Forecast for a particular CVC.
Please help
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Rahul Chitte

make sure the entry for the CVC exists in /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 transaction. make sure the checkbox "All Related Selections" is checked as well since it has a positive impact on the user experience in DP screen.
A good practice is to generate all the profiles by running strategy 56 in the background with the master profile.
If you overtly want to run the forecast with a specific model, go to the menu bar before you hit the univariate button. Under Settings --> Forecast Profile --> pick up the master profile and then run the univariate.

Assign Master forecast profile to selection

Hi,
I got 6 material and two master profile whuch used different strategy say 56 and 11.
What I want to do is mat1,mat2 and mat3 to profile 1 and other material to profile 2.
I went to t-code /sapapo/msdp_fcst2 .Then I went to selection management and gave all 3 sku under product and assigned that selection to profile 1.similarly I did for remaining material.
But when I went to sdp94 and queried my material A system is not picking up the profile assigned.
When I checked I found that since I enetered all 3 material under one selection system is not picking the profile.If you enter one by one under different selection Id then it will pick the profile.
Is this the standard functionality or is there any other method avaiilable.
Thanks and Regards
Raghavendra Pai

Hi Raghavendra Pai
The issue you have is that you assign a profile at an aggregate level (for 3 products) and try to run the forecast at a more detail level.
By default the system look only for the exact selection.
However when you assign your selection you can use the flag "All Related Selections" or "also similar selection", which is just after the "display column".
Then the system should pick up the model in interactive:
"If you set this indicator, the system uses this profile assignment for all subordinate selections. For example, if the selection is PRODUCT = P1, the profile is also used for PRODUCT =P1, LOCATION = 0001. You can however specify more detailled assignments to other profiles without invalidating the more generic assignment."
Note also that model 56 is a bit "special".You can use it to create assignment in background.
/SAPAPO/MC8T - Define Activities for Mass Processing
Select a profile with 56 + flag the "generate profile and assign it"
Finally the other solution is to assign profile in interactive: select your product, run the forecast interactively and save: a assignment has been created.
in addition have a look at the different user parameter: /sapapo/fcst_guids, /sapapo/prfl_notsav, /sapapo/fcst_green, /sapapo/fcst3
I hope it helps,
Julien

Deleting Master and other Forecast Profiles

Hi all,
I would like to delete some of the Master Forecast Profiles and other Univariate forecast Profiles I have created using the transaction "Maintain Forecast Profiles".
Can you guide me on How I could Possibly DELETE them?
Any help is much appreciated.. Thank you.
ANU.

Hi Anu,
In the transaction /sapapo/mc96b load the Master forecast profile you want to delete. Note that you have to select the right Planning Area to load the Master Forecast profile. Once you have loaded the MF Profile. Go to "Edit" in the top and in the drop down you will have delete master forecast profile. Say yes in the following screen and you would be able to delete the Master forecast profile.
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Kesavan

Apply custom GUID forecast profile to reforecasting activity?

Hi APO Experts,
My company currently uses only one master forecast method (auto model selection 2, forecast method 56) for every individual customer that we have in APO (~10,000 customers.) I would like to fine tune the process and be able to specify a forecast for certain individual accounts. We use SAP APO version 3.1.
In interactive forecasting mode, I have found the option to "Save assignment with unique forecast profile" (under Settings -> Forecast Profile) and I am now able to create customer specific forecasts with a unique "GUID." However, I am not sure how to utilize these forecasts through a roll forward. I roll my customer forecast window forward every month (ie, i change it from April 2011 - April 2012 to May 2011 - May 2012) by running a Mass Processing activity. But I can not find the GUID forecast profiles when I set up the mass processing activity. I tried deactivating the "always use job profile" button but that still doesn't work - instead of using the GUID specific forecast profiles during the reforecasting, APO will populate those customers with the default master forecast profile. Is there a step that I am missing?
I appreciate your time and help,
-- K

Hi arun,
If i understand your situation,
You put
Validity start date as may and validity end date as dec
constant factor before start date '0'
constant factor after end date '100'
still you see forecast for march april.
if that is the issue, This might happen as per default settings, i think the default settings are constant factor before start date as 100%.
do the following
I dont know how the screens look in 4.1
But in the phase in profiles go to Menu option GOTO> settings
there you can define if constant factor by default should be zero or hundred.
The main reason why this happens is if you try to put 0 as the constant factor before the start date, it does not save anything. so you need to make the default settings that constant factor before the start date is 0 %.
let me know if this helps you or if the problem still persists.
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Forecast profile not calculating error

Hi Guys,
I am facing problem related to forecast profile. I created forecast profile using seasonal model (Not Master forecast profile). When back job run. It's try to run with seasonal model, but it's can't, so it's don't compute MAPE error. With out MAPE it's does not know that it need to go back to Master forecast profile (56 and MAPE) or not.
So, I don't know why it not calculating MAPE? Do any one facing same kind of problem?

MAPE error will be calculated regardless of strategy mainatained in profile. but make sure you have selected MAPE error calc method while creation of forecast profile.
MAPE( mean aboslute persentage error) is the best method to analyse error even SAP recommended to use this method to get best results.
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APO DP - loading of selections and forecast profiles assigned to selections

I am using APO DP V5.
I am forecasting at a 'product at customer' level.
I have a flat file containing the 'product at customer' combinations - of which there are several thousand - and the proposed forecast profile for each combination.
Is there a good way for:
1. loading these combinations as a set of 'selection ids' into APO DP?
2. loading the set of 'selections assigned to forecast profiles'
I note that the 'selections assigned to forecast profiles' are in table /sapapo/dp_fcst2, but this table includes the GUID for selection ids, so I assume the selection ids must be generated first.
Thanks for any advice.
Regards,
Bob Austin

Hi Bob,
There was a similar question asked sometime back in this forum, and am attaching the replies given to that.
Re: APO DP assignment of selections to forecast profiles
Check this link, it might help you.
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Jagadeesh.

How is the forecast profile tied to the article master?

Hello-
I understand how to create a forecast profile, but I assume there is some way to assign that profile to articles or material groups, and I cannot figure that out. If it is assigned, it will show on the article master in the right field, but it cannot be changed or maintained in the article master directly. So, there must be another method to link/assign these outside of the article master.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks-
Brady

Hello-
Thank you for the answer, I found it - I have a Retail system, so it is structured a bit differently, but the tab is ultimately there.
Thanks again-
Brady
Edited by: Brady Stone on Feb 27, 2009 9:49 PM

APO DP - validation of correct forecast profile

We are using APO DP V5.0.
In interactive DP, we forecast at the level of 'product at customer'. For the 'product at customer' characteristic we have navigation attributes, such as 'history type' (eg EPOS, despatch)
The 'history type' determines which key figure we use as history, and so we have forecast profiles which are relevant for the different history types.
If a user assigns a forecast profile in interactive DP to a 'product at customer', we want to get the system to check that the forecast profile is actually valid for the relevant 'history type'. We have named the profiles carefully so that, for example, the first x characters of the profile name reflect the history type; so we could have validation logic saying 'if history type = EPOS, check that forecast profile starts with 'EPOS'.
But how could this validation logic be triggered?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Hi Bob,
Wow, what a brain bender!
I think this would require some fairly serious ABAP...
You can't get the value of an attribute interactively (via a macro function, for example using ACT_IOBJNM_VALUE()). You would need a Function Module that could manipulate the Planning Object Structure to grab the attribute of the characteristic in question, based on the current selection.
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Once you have that, you could tell the Function Module to pass just the first four letters ('EPOS') back to the planning book user exit macro so that you could then compare that with the attribute value.
Probably you didn't need me to write this short functional spec, but it was a very interesting problem to consider. Hopefully somebody else will read this and tell us a much simpler way to do it.
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APO DP Forecast profile consistency check

I am using APO DP V5.
Has anyone any experience of using the 'forecast profile consistency check' pgm /sapapo/rmdp_fcst_prpfl_consis?
What exactly does it do?
Thanks,
Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Hello,
This report /SAPAPO/RMDP_FCST_PRPFL_CONSIS is consistency for forecast profiles
While there is no need to schedule the report automatically at regular intervals, there are some special situations in which it can be very useful.
When must this report be run?
1. When you transport forecast profiles from a system A to a system B. In this case, you must convert the internal version indicator (Id).
2. If you are having problems with the date display or if the system changes from the relative date specification to the absolute specification for no obvious reason.
When should you run this report?
1. If you are working with generated forecast profiles (user parameter /SAPAPO/FCST_GUIDS).
2. If you are using a manual forecast.
What exactly does this report do?
1. The internal version ID is checked.
2. Date fields are checked. Fields filled with 00000000 are initialized.
3. Overall profiles without any single profiles are deleted.
4. Generated forecast profiles that are no longer assigned to a selection are deleted.
5. The assignment of forecast profiles to a selection is deleted if the forecast profile no longer exists.
6. Parameters for the manual forecast are deleted for any forecast profiles that no longer exist.
Source of above details : Note 558995 - Advice on consistency report for forecast profiles

SAP SCM and SAP APO: Best practices, tips and recommendations

Hi,
I have been gathering useful information about SAP SCM and SAP APO (e.g., advanced supply chain planning, master data and transaction data for advanced planning, demand planning, cross-plant planning, production planning and detailed scheduling, deployment, global available-to-promise (global ATP), CIF (core interface), SAP APO DP planning tools (macros, statistical forecasting, lifecycle planning, data realignment, data upload into the planning area, mass processing u2013 background jobs, process chains, aggregation and disaggregation), and PP/DS heuristics for production planning).
I am especially interested about best practices, tips and recommendations for using and developing SAP SCM and SAP APO. For example, [CIF Tips and Tricks Version 3.1.1|https://service.sap.com/form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700006480652001E] and [CIF Tips and Tricks Version 4.0|https://service.sap.com/form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700000596412005E] contain pretty useful knowledge about CIF.
If you know any useful best practices, tips and recommendations for using and developing SAP SCM and SAP APO, I would appreciate if you could share those assets with me.
Thanks in advance of your help.
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Jarmo Tuominen

Hi Jarmo,
Apart from what DB has suggested. you should give a good reading on the following.
-Consulting Notes (use the application component filters in search notes)
-Collective Notes (similar to the one above)
-Release Notes
-Release Restrictions
-If $$ permit subscribe to www.scmexpertonline.com. Good perspective on concepts around SAP SCM.
-There are a couple of blogs (e.g. www.apolemia.com) .. but all lack breadth.. some topics in depth.
-"Articles" section on this site (not all are classified well.. see in ECCops, mfg, SCM, Logistics etc)
-Serivce.sap.com- check the solution details overview in knowledge exchange tab. There are product presentations and collaterals for every release. Good breadth but no depth.
-Building Blocks - available for all application areas. This is limited to vanilla configuration of just making a process work and nothing more than that.
-Get the book "Sales and Operations Planning with SAP APO" by SAP Press. Its got plenty of easy to follow stuff, good perspective and lots of screen shots to make life easier.
-help.sap.com the last thing that most refer after all "handy" options (incl. this forum) are exhausted. Nevertheless, this is the superset of all "secondary" documents. But the maze of hyperlinks that start at APO might lead you to something like xml schema.
Key Tip: Appreciate that SAP SCM is largely driven by connected execution systems (SAP ECC/ERP). So the best place to start with should be a good overview of ERP OPS solution overview, at least at the significant level of depth.). Check this document at sdn wiki "ERP ops architecture overview".
I have some good collection of documents though many i havent read myself. If you need them let me know.
Regards,
Loknath

Creating a New Forecasting profile for MRP

Hi there,
Please can somebody let me know how do I create a new Forecasting profile for MRP.
I want to see this in table MRPR once created. (field PROPR).
Kind Regards,

Dear marelizen
Use transactio code MP80.
Creating a Profile
The information contained in this info object is relevant to the material master for industry and to the article master for retail. Retail customers are requested to substitute:
article for material
requirements planning for material requirements planning or MRP
1. In the Material Master menu, choose Profile ® MRP profile or Forecast profile ® Create.
The initial screen appears.
2. Enter the name you want to give the profile.
If you want to use an existing profile as a reference, enter its name under Copy from so that the system can copy its values to the new profile.
3. Choose Selection screen.
The selection screen appears. It shows all the fields that can be copied to the MRP or Forecasting screen in the material master record.
4. Enter a profile description and select the fields you want the profile to contain, specifying whether each field is to be copied to the material master record as a fixed value or as a default value.
It is not possible to select Fixed lot size and Maximum stock level in a single MRP profile. However, if you select Maximum stock level, you must also select Lot size (materials planning).5. Choose Data screen.
MRP profile data is spread over two screens. To switch from one screen to the other, choose Data screen 1 or Data screen 2.
When you access the data screen from the selection screen, the system checks whether the fields selected are allowed to appear in the same profile.
The data screen appears, containing only the fields you selected on the selection screen. The fixed values and default values are displayed in different colors. All fixed values are required fields except where the field can also be left blank.
If, in the forecast profile, you enter N or 0 as the forecast model, no forecast is made.
Like forecast model N, if you enter forecast model 0 when maintaining a forecast profile, you will be unable to maintain any other field in the profile.
Unlike forecast model N, forecast model 0 deletes any existing forecast values when you change the material. This ensures that these values are no longer included in materials planning.
6. Enter the corresponding values and save the profile.
If the system detects inconsistencies or errors, it asks you to change the fields selected on the selection screen and/or to correct the values. Otherwise, the initial screen appears, where you can begin to create another profile.
warm regards
Ramakrishna

MRP & Forecast Profile

Hi there,
When we mainatain Forecast Profile (T-code - MP30).. we have two colums to be checked for differrent fields Fixed value & Default value.
But we cannot set both the indicator at the same time for a field i.e both the fixed value & default value checked.
Same is also applicable for MRP Profile - MMD1
Then why SAP has provided a check box instead of radio button .
Please suggest me the same .
Regards
Kaushik Choudhury

Hi kaushik,
Default value - Indicator that specifies whether the field is copied to the material master record as a default value; that is, the value can then be overwritten in the material master record
whereas
Fixed Value - Indicator that specifies whether the corresponding field is copied to the material master record as a fixed value; that is, the value cannot then be overwritten in the material master record

Assigning cvcs to forecast profile (in mass)

Hi All,
We have loaded thousands of new CVCs into Demand Planning and would now like to assign then to a single forecast profile. I thought that it was possible to do this via a background job since this contains a selection profile and a forecast profile. However, after the job completes, I do not see an assignment. Is there something that I may be missing here (a setting) or am is there another way to assign numerous CVCs to a forecast profile?
Regards,
Rumi,

Datta,
I am familiar with this transaction but I am not sure it is the best way to solve this problem I have described? Also, if new CVCs are generated they need to be assigned to the master profile via the background job. I don't want to have to use /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 to do this. Also, I don't know how you can assign a forecast profile to 10000 or more CVCs in this transaction?
Rumi

SCM 5.1 APO -DP Master Forecast Profile - Change Details

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