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Forecast Profile

A forecast profile groups together parameters (calculation factors) to represent a strategy that allows you to extrapolate existing plan values to forecast future ones.

A forecast profile is based on a forecast strategy, which enables you to extrapolate planning data (for example, using a moving weighted average, as in the case of forecast profile 14). If you use forecast profile 14 and want to give extra weighting to certain values in your forecast, you can create weighting groups.

There are two types of forecast profiles that you can define:

You can apply standard forecast profiles with the manual entry of planning data and in the planning method Forecast . Segment-specific forecast profiles, on the other hand, cannot be used together with the manual entry of planning data.