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Mar 25, 2009 at 07:43 PM

Is SAP Forecasting suitable for low volume environments?

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This is more of an opinion question. We're testing the basic forecasting in SAP but it seems that if you are a low volume shop for certain materials (say < 4 in consumption) for a year, the forecasting is basically worthless. I can't seem to find a model that will give back any meaningful results for low volumes that have no seasonal pattern. Most of the time the results are 0's since the basic value is so low.

I don't know if this is something common to all forecasting software so I figured I'd throw it out to the group to get some opinions. If there is a specific model/parameter combination that would maybe give some better results, I'd love to hear that as well.

Thanks in advance