Forecasting the Plan Data

Use

So far, you copied last year actuals into next year’s plan for periods 001 through 008. The next step is to forecast the plan data for periods 009 through 012 of next near.

Plan data can be forecast on the basis of existing data - either plan or actual data. You use last year actuals as base data for the extrapolation.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Fom the Planning node, choose Automatic Planning ® Forecast.

    Transaction Code

    KE1D

  2. Choose .
  3. In the dialog box, enter the following data:
    4.

    Field

    Data

    Variant

    IDES200

  4. Choose .

    5. The fields are already filled by the variant.

  5. Enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Version

    The number of your version

  6. Choose Selection Criteria.

    7. The system displays a list of all possible characteristics. Here, you can choose whether you want to forecast the complete plan or only selected segments. For the purpose of this demonstration, you want to forecast only one selected product. Therefore, you only find entries for the following characteristics:

    Field

    Data

    Product

    P-101

    Sales organization

    1000

  7. Choose Value Fields.

    8. You can select the value fields relevant for the forecast indivudually. In this scenario we selected the invoiced values in accordance with the sales unit and the revenues.

    Keep the default values.

  8. Choose Processing Instructions.

    9. Keep the default values.

  9. Choose .
  10. Scroll to the end of the log to see how many profitability segments were processed.
  11. Choose until the overview tree appears.