How to get forecasted values rounded to next integer.

[Former Member]

We are experiencing cases where the forecasted values given by SAP for a material are decimals, like 0.918, etc. This is usually for materials with very low monthly comsumption values, like 1, 2 or 0.

Obviously, we cannot order these materials in these quantities. Is there some configuration method to round up the forecasted values either down or up to the next integer?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Note 393320 is most likely the fix. Since our sales volume on these parts is very low(less than 4 monthly) the forecast generates results in decimals. We have to change some standard SAP code to always round no matter what the value is, by default it uses a threshold to determine whether to round or not.

Waiting to implement in our system, will report back once I confirm.

[Former Member]

I did find the following on OSS regarding this but it still doesn't work. We're on ECC 6.0 so I assume I don't have to implement any notes.

OSS Notes 502897, 350555, 813294 all say the same thing, that we can force the rounding via use of a user parameter MM_FCST_ROUND

To select the rounding category, maintain the user parameter with the following values.

o ' ' (no value maintained): The system rounds up as in the standard.

o 'K': The system always rounds up commercially.

o 'B': The system always rounds down.

This should be happening by default which it is not currently and even setting this value does nothing after I re-login. Any ideas?

[rammohan_shenoy]

Since these 813294 note is release independent you have to implement this in your ECC ssytem.

Thanks,

ram