The Unified Demand Forecast (UDF) module in SAP Customer Activity Repository allows you to model and forecast consumer demand. For input, you need to provide historical demand data. You can use the virtual data model for sales orders (time series source SO_VDM
) to provide this input. The VDM accesses historical sales orders stored in the SAP HANA content of SAP Customer Activity Repository.
The SO_VDM
allows UDF to access historical sales orders (typically, Web purchases) in SAP Customer Activity Repository. The sales orders are aggregated to the level of product / location / sales organization / distribution channel / order channel / day. Note that this time series is not persisted in DDF (unlike the POS_TS
or CONS_TS
time series, see Time Series).
Via this VDM, UDF consumes the SalesDocumentAggregatedSalesByArticleLocation
view in the sap.is.retail.car
SAP HANA content package. The view provides the demand modeling service with the data required to assess the effects of demand influencing factors (DIFs) on consumer demand.
For more information about the data consumed, see View Grouping: Sales Document Aggregated Sales Data by Article Location. You can also find there information about attributes, calculated measures, filters, and tables.
Several prerequisites must be fulfilled before you can access and use the SAP HANA content for SAP Customer Activity Repository, including the virtual data model for UDF. For more information, see the following:
Installation and implementation:
You select the time series in Customizing under
. For more information, see the accompanying documentation (transaction SPRO).With this VDM, you can also integrate promotions defined in SAP ERP and use them as input for demand modeling and forecasting. Providing promotional information as part of your demand data is very important because promotions can significantly impact consumer demand and thus, also the forecasted unit sales. You can use the SAP ERP promotions in addition to promotions defined in SAP Promotion Management for Retail, for example.
Prerequisite: Your SAP ERP system must have been set up to provide all the promotional information required for demand modeling and forecasting. To determine those requirements for your customer-specific system landscape, please contact your SAP consultant.
Integration: Master Data Replication from SAP ERP to Demand Data Foundation
Implementation: UDF consumes the SAP ERP promotions via the RetailPromotionByArticleLocationExcludingBonusBuy
view in the sap.is.retail.ecc
SAP HANA content package. For more information about views with promotional information, see .
Features of modeling and forecasting: Unified Demand Forecast
Running modeling and forecasting: Schedule Model and Forecast