Setting in Mass processing activity

Hello Forecasting Experts,
There are two parameter settings while creating an Forecasting mass processing activity -
1. Always use job profile
2. Generate profile and assign it
Can someone tell me what is the effect of using each above setting? Please give some recommendation as to which one has to be used when?
Thanks in advance.
Kelly

Hi Kelly,
These are not one or the other. You can have none of the options checked and things can run fine.
'Always Use Job Profile' option means system will use the forecast profile specified in the activity, regardless of what forecast profile assignments the demand planners may have made. This can be problematic. If the forecast profile in the activity is seasonal and it processes a CVC that should really have a constant model, the system may interpret noise as seasonality and give you what it thinks the seasonality is. This is a recipe for higher forecast error.
'Generate profile and assign it' options instructs the system to create a new profile with a GUID and assign it. Strategy 56 was made for this... Seems like it would take longer to process your forecast this way.
'Generate new profile when errors' option will only generate a new forecast profile and assign it when the system encounters an error during normal calculation. Example of this kind of error is when the model is Seasonal but you have some periods with blank history mixed in there -- the system can't calculate a seasonal index on zero history. In this situation the system would generate a profile with a GUID and assign it. The good news is that these are then easy to find in trxn /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 since they have a GUID. You can then have a demand planner go back to the CVC and tune the model properly.
(Warning! Business Process advice ahead!! Proceed with extreme caution!!!)
One strategy with these options is: Use the 'Generate profile and assign it' when you're first getting underway at go-live. Let the system do the heavy number crunching the first few times. Then have your demand planners tune the models for A and B products/families. When they've had a fair amount of time to get all of those done, delete all GUID profile assignments (there's a button for this in trxn /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 called 'Delete Generated Profiles'). So now, all actively tuned models (A & B products) have a demand-planner-assigned profile and all C products have no profile assignment. During the forecast calculation run, A & B products will follow their assigned forecast profiles and all C products will use the profile specified in the activity. In this strategy, none of the options in the activity are selected.
Hope this helps!
Dan

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