Tracing Forecast Influencing Factors
With this feature, you can now trace the factors that have influenced the demand forecasts generated with Unified Demand Forecast (UDF). This gives you a better understanding of the forecast values and allows you to do forecast analyses at the level of individual product locations. Forecast tracing is available for all supported time series sources (see Time Series).
For example, you can use forecast tracing to do the following:
Evaluate the impact of planned future prices and offers.
See the prices based on which the forecasts have been generated.
See why a particular daily forecast was set to zero (for example, because the location is closed on that day or the product is not listed).
Do in-depth forecast analyses (see Analyzing Forecasts with New SAP Fiori App).
You can activate forecast tracing using the existing Define Forecasting Control Settings
Customizing activity under 
Cross-Application Components
Demand Data Foundation
Modeling and Forecasting
. For more information, see the accompanying documentation (transaction SPRO).
The following system objects have been changed:
Create Forecast Trace
: New column in the Customizing activity, where you can activate the tracing./DMF/UFC_TRC
: New table containing the tracing results.HCO_DDF_UDF
: Updated delivery unit, which now also includes the content for forecast tracing.
Technical Details
Product feature is | New |
|---|---|
Country Dependency | Valid for all countries |
Software Component Version | RTLDDF 200 |
Application Component | CA-DDF-RT |
Availability | SAP Customer Activity Repository 2.0 FP2 |
See also
Using modeling and forecasting: Schedule Model and Forecast
Features of modeling and forecasting: Unified Demand Forecast