A forecast profile consists of a strategy and a grouping of parameters, according to which, you can project existing plan or actual data into the future.

The profile allows you to execute the forecast repeatedly without having to make the forecast settings each time.

You can assign a planning profile to certain combinations of characteristic values in Customizing in order to represent different planning scenarios in automatic planning. This assignment is done using an object-dependent parameter and a planning aid access. For each combination of characteristic values, for example company code 0001, fiscal year 1999, you can portray several scenarios. You do this by storing several object-dependent parameters with different planning aid accesses. This enables you to store, for example, best-case and worst-case plans. For more information, see Customizing.

Each profile has a forecast strategy. This defines the forecast model, for example constant, trend, seasonal model, together with the desired parameters.

See also the following information in the online documentation on Sales and Operations Planning: