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 Analyze Forecast

 

The analytical app displays detailed demand modeling and forecasting information for performing in-depth analyses. You can compare the actual, modeled, and forecasted sales of a specific product in a specific location. The modeling and forecasting data that you can visualize is provided by the Unified Demand Forecast (UDF) module in SAP Customer Activity Repository. The app gives you a deeper understanding of the influencing factors that have gone into determining the forecasted unit sales. You can choose which factors you want to look at for your analysis and toggle between a daily and an aggregated weekly view of the data.

Key Features

  • Assist business users in achieving the best possible forecasts.

  • Visualize forecasts, historical sales, demand influencing factors, and intermediate results to easily understand the generated forecasts.

  • Visualize the data at different levels of aggregation (days and weeks).

  • Gain better insight into forecast issues by understanding the root causes.

  • Use this insight to optimize the configuration and improve forecast quality.

  • Increase the trust of business users in the forecasting engine.

  • Quickly access product and reference product details.

  • Initiate follow-up actions by sharing the analysis results (such as, via email or SAP Jam).

  • Support faster decision-making for business users.

Restrictions

You can only display modeling and forecasting data generated based on the sales time series (time series source POS_TS, table /DMF/TS_PS). Other time series are currently not supported. For more information, see Sales.

System Landscape Requirements

Front-End

SAP Fiori for SAP Customer Activity Repository retail applications bundle 1.0

Product version: SAP FIORI FOR SAP CARAB 1.0 SPS4

Back-End

SAP Customer Activity Repository retail applications bundle 1.0

Product version: CAR RETAIL APPL BUNDLE 1.0 SPS3

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Component for Customer Incidents

CA-DDF-RT-UDF

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