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Introducing new products and delisting old ones is a crucial aspect of any supply chain planning strategy, and it’s important that these products are taken into consideration during the demand planning in the proper way, to make sure that the forecas...

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When setting up the forecast process, most of the times the business needs are the first and only thing that is taken into account. However, the underlying statistical properties of the data you use for forecasting heavily impact the quality of your ...

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We are Laura Tozzo, Product Manager for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Demand and AI, and sujatha.nair, UX Designer Lead for SAP IBP.In this blog, we want to share the journey of redesigning the User Interface (UI) of the Manage Product L...

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When creating a forecast, one question always comes up: how can I achieve optimal forecast accuracy?Several factors go into creating an accurate forecast, including the appropriate algorithm selection, parameter choices, data selection, error measure...

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The term “Demand Sensing” can be used for different things, depending on the context. This blog aims to clarify any confusion about what we mean by Demand Sensing in SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, what value it brings and what the...

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@Pravin28 please open a case so that the development team can look at the problem

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Hi,we are working on multiple genAI use cases within SAP IBP. However the official timeline and information will be shared when the official roadmap is clarified. At the moment we are still clarifying many aspects of including genAI in our product.If...

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Hi Piyush, you can send any key figure as input and receive it as output, not only the main input and target key figures. It is enough to define them accordingly in the "Independent Variable" and "Output key figures" section, and they will be sen...

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Hi Shaher, the error calculated during the choice of the algorithm and the one calculated at the end (to measure forecast accuracy) are not the same, and in general the forecast accuracy is always based on ex-post forecast. If the algorithm was chose...

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Hi Julio, yes independent variables are technically speaking just additional key figures that you add to your forecast model. Best regards Laura

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