With this feature you can have Demand Data Foundation (DDF) generate a pre-season projection of future unit sales for products in SAP Assortment Planning for Retail.
Assortment planners need a weekly projected unit sales value for the planned period at the variant-location-week level for every product in their assortment list. The projection enables them to plan their (initial) purchase order (for example, the first 8 weeks of sales) and know the weekly financial plan for their assortment for budgeting.
The pre-season projection uses the historical unit sales of the assigned reference product, in the reference location, over the reference period to calculate a future sales distribution by day over the planned period.
Technical Name of Product Feature | PRE-SEASON PROJECTION |
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Product Feature Is | New |
Country Dependency | Valid for all countries |
Software Component Version | RTLDDF 200 |
Application Component | CA-DDF-RT |
Available as of | Demand Data Foundation 2.0 |
DDF now supports SAP Assortment Planning for Retail as a consuming application. SAP Assortment Planning for Retail uses DDF as the platform for data. This data, which includes the aggregated point-of-sale (POS) data, can be used to generate a pre-season unit sales projection at the product variant level.
Variants (typically, size/color/style combinations) can be defined at different levels for different retailers. In most cases, the generated pre-season projection therefore is a size curve distribution, provided the size is distributed across different variants.
For more information, see the SAP Help Portal for SAP Assortment Planning for Retail at
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