Creating and Assigning Profiles for Collaborative Sales Forecasting

You create a profile for collaborative sales forecasting in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration , by choosing Demand → Collaborative Sales Forecasting → Create Profiles for Collaborative Sales Forecasting.

You set the following horizons:

Display horizon

Planning horizon

Release horizon

Publish horizon

You must also set the data storage and publish bucket size.

Data storage determines whether the display, planning, and release horizons are weekly or daily. Data storage also determines the type of XML messages that SAP SNC accepts, and the time and logic of the disaggregation of the final consensus data. On a technical basis the data storage is based on daily buckets. If set to weekly, the data is aggregated from daily to weekly. For a supplier-led collaborative sales forecasting process variant, you must setWeekly. For a customer-led collaborative sales forecasting process variant, you setDailyTo define whether the publish horizon is weekly or daily you can use the publish bucket size.

You assign the profile by choosing Demand → Collaborative Sales Forecasting → Assign Profiles for Collaborative Sales Forecasting.

Settings in the Forecast Master Record

You must make the following settings on the SAP Easy Access screen in the Update Forecast Master Record (/SCA/FCSTMR) transaction:

Set a Start of Week day for your location product in the Start of week field.

Set the STATUS flag toG (Forecasting without Disaggregation to Short-Term FCST)

You must set the STATUS flag toGto stop statistical forecast data from disaggregating and transferring to Short-Term Forecasting before a consensus finding has been run in CSF. This way, data released from CSF to Short-Term Forecasting is not overwritten should you decide to run another forecasting.

Configuring the Consensus Finding Framework

You must configure the consensus finding framework to determine the rules used for your consensus forecast calculation and condition technique. For more information about how to configure the consensus finding framework, see Sales and Order Forecasts: Settings for Consensus Finding .

Alert and Color Profiles for Collaborative Sales Forecasting

Configure alert and color profiles by making the following settings:

Define alert profiles for Collaborative Sales Forecasting. Alert profiles define the alert levels that the system issues for defined situations. You can define alerts as information, warnings, or errors. You can choose to switch alerting for CSF on or off for a specific situation.

The system displays alerts related to CSF in the Alert Monitor on the Demand Planning page.

For more information about alert profiles, see the IMG for Supply Network Collaboration under Demand → Define Alert Profiles for CSF and OFM

Define color profiles for CSF. Color profiles define the colors displayed in the time bucket cells of the relevant key figures on the Sales Forecast Details – Product View and Sales Forecast Overview screens.

For more information about color profiles, see the IMG for Supply Network Collaboration under Demand → Define Color Profiles for CSF and OFM

For the key figure Consensus Baseline Sales Forecast – Final the tolerance status, release status and manual status are relevant when colors are displayed in the time bucket cells. For all other key figures, only the tolerance status is relevant. For more information about the CSF key figures see Key Figures in Collaborative Sales Forecasting