SRM and Demand Planning

Hi all,
Can anyone explain me how demand planning is related to SRM.
In which areas of demand planning SRM is going to be related.
Thanks in advance!

If I am not wrong Demand Planning is a feature of APO advance planning and optimiser.
The linkage which I have seen is for PDP SI supplier integration scenario.
Here the on the base of DP ... MRP is run in ECC MM
Delivery schedules are generated and the same are brodcasted to SRM SUS portal for suppliers to confirm and generate ASNs
prior to delievry
BR
Dinesh

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the batch logfile does not reveal any issues. It would be helpful to get more details:
1. what kind of data does not appear in the worksheets? Level values etc?
2. some more details about the demand plan setup and demand plan assignments would help.
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a) was data collection successful
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Below link will give you entire information on forecasting models, forecasting accuracy technequues etc,:
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View Plan vs. commit by month in Demantra
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