SOP to DM to MRP

Hello Gurus ,
Please can anyone of help me in understand the technical details i need to adopt to get the below process implemented. Tips and tricks would be really helpful.
1. We dont have any SAP BW and so how can i get the Sales Forecast based on the Previous Sales History(Sales Document with the Billing Documents ). Do we need to write a report or any report is available in standard SAP R/3 ..Any inputs on this would be really helpful.
2. Once we get the Sales Forecast how can i transfer this data to the Demand Management through MC74 automatically . Because it shows only one material for that particular plant. How can i feed the total data of the sales forecast on a weekly basis to the MC74 transaction automatically?
Looking forward for the reply.
Thanks
Balaji

Hi Balaji,
So things are like this:
Without BW and APO, your demand planning tool remains erp-SOP.
In SOP you can use either standard SOP, where you can forecast based on consumption (from stock movements, not sales documents), or create your own planning environment using SOP-Flexible Planning functionality. There you can bring actual historical data from SD documents, and subsequently use that for forecasting.
Then, both forecasting and transfer to DM can be done EN MASS, using the mass processing functions (transactions MC8*).
Regards,
Mario

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Hi SAP gurus,
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