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IntroductionPredictive Planning relieves you of the hassle of building a time series forecasting model. What remains to be done is evaluating the model performance and checking if it meets your requirements. Predictive Planning provides everything yo...

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IntroductionPredictive planning enables a bottom-up approach of predictive forecasting. Using the Entity setting, you can choose, depending on your business requirements, to forecast your company expenses per department, per department and location, ...

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IntroductionIn a previous blog post, I explained how to perform a predictive what-if simulation using Predictive Planning. The workflow described was not ideal because it required to use the Predictive Planning user interface and creating a predictiv...

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Introduction Updating a forecast is a complex activity. It requires coordinating several distinct steps. A forecast update in SAP Analytics Cloud might contain the following steps: Prepare the Actuals using a Data Action Train a Predictive Mode...

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Introduction In a previous blog post I presented the new Influencers feature for Predictive Planning. We focused mainly on using the influencers to increase the accuracy of the predictive forecasts. Specifically, I have mentioned that when using s...

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Hi,Forecast In Chart always uses the data as displayed in the chart.In my example since data is displayed at the day granularity, data is processed at the day granularity and forecast is provided at the day granularity. If I want to get a forecast fo...

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Hi Ganjos,You must provide future values for all the influencer, for all schools and over the whole forecast horizon.What do I call past and future? Past and future is defined by the last available data point for the target. Referring to the example ...

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Hi,I assume that by " I can’t create more than one forecast", you mean that it's not possible to get more than one future forecast point (named "forecast periods" in the user interface).The number of forecast period is limited by the number of availa...

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Hi Ganjos,What feature are you using to create your forecast? Smart Predict or forecast in chart?Both have very different options and limitations.Best,

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Hi,The short answer to your question is, yes, it is possible to add external variables to influence the forecast result. The exact way to do it depends on the precise functionally you are using to produce the forecast in SAP Analytics cloud. I will c...

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