APO BW

[Former Member]

Hi,

Kindly answer the following.

Q.You need to create a forecast profile to prevent your forecast data from being overwritten. What exactly do we mean by this?

Q. What is a Forecast Strategy. List different types of Strategies and their significance.

Q. The four types of Macros described in the Building blocks of DP- Are they the standard ones or just an example?

Q. What are the different methods by which one can upload the Sales order into the APO system?

Thanks,

The Invincible

[somnath_manna · Accepted solution]

I agree with what Harish has to say.

Please refer to help.sap.com - link to [DP|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm41/helpdata/en/8a/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm] where you will find the answers.

As regards your last question:

Q. What are the different methods by which one can upload the Sales order into the APO system?

You will not get a straight answer from help but there are two common ways -

1. If it is for pure DP purpose - like carrying out Statistical Forecast based on past history data i.e. Sales Orders then extract Sales Orders from R/3 to APO BW Cube and then from the cube load to your DP Planning Area. This way the Sales Order data will be in Time Series form.

2. If it is for SNP or PPDS relevant planning purpose then you use the CIF to transfer Sales Orders real-time from R.3 to APO. This way the Sales ORder data will be in Order Series form.

Also the subject line is not appropriate as your questions are not related to APO BW i.e. Data Mart instead they are basic DP functionalities.

You can refer to the SCM - APO - DP Wiki (see third sticky thread on this forum for more details).

Somnath

PS: I am marking the thread as assumed answered.

Edited by: Somnath Manna on Mar 17, 2008 9:42 AM

[Former Member]

Hi I just saw this thread

Good luck with finding answers buddy

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just another vincible guy

[Former Member]

Its just a matter of "TIME". Thanks for all your help.

THE INVINCIBLE

[Former Member]

You are right " it is matter of "TIME".

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