SNP - Descriptive characteristics in Macro

Hello,
we are using descriptove characteristics in SNP to make the customer information from DP available with the forecast.
Does anyone of you know whether there is any macro function that can be used to read the value of the descriptive characteristic?
Thanks and regards,
Anke

you can use characteristics to write forecast on customer number and to consume the forecast from r/3 sales orders on characteritic customer number

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I did not made any Characteristics based macro till now.
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