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Apr 21, 2010 at 09:15 AM

Forecast Profle Assignment

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Hello,

I am trying to set up a procedure to find and assign the best-fit forecast models but now I am encountering some difficulties:

Business Requirement: Use of forecast strategy "98 - No Forecast" if a CVC had no historical data for 3 monhts; for all other CVC's use a seaonal model with "best-fit" parameters.

By using a macro I assign the forecast strategy "98 - No Forecast" to all CVC's with no historical data in the last 3 months. This works fine and the assignments are shown in transaction /sapapo/msdp_fcst2.

A composite forecast profile containing 6 different univariate profiles should be used to find the best parameter set for all other CVC's. But when using the composite forecast profile in the forecasting batch-job, the assignments of the univariate profiles are not considered and there are still forecasts created for CVC's I assigned "No Forecast" before. The flag "Always use job profile" is not set in the activity. When I use an univariate profile the assignment is considered and no forecast is carried out.

Anybody knows, whether this is the "works as designed" behaviour or if there is a way to consider the assignment of the univariate profile when starting a forecast job with a composite profile?

Thanks in advance for your help!

BR,

Alois