Hello everyone,
Wondering if anyone has figured out how to do the following:
Somehow export customized univariant forecast settings (GUIDs) from a QA system to Production.
Here's my scenario:
My Demand Planners are going into business acceptance testing and will be tuning / customizing the univariant forecast profiles I've developed for them. Example: DP Planner "Bob" plans a highly seasonal product/customer combo and wants to tune the univariant fcst profile used for his fcst. He wants to change the fcst strategy from Automodel 2 (which is the default we've set up in the batch job), to seasonal trend, and adjust the alpha, beta, gamma values. This customized univariant fcst profile will be specific to his product/customer. Bob performs this work in our QA box as a part of BAT, and saves a GUID to /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2... and when we go live he wants his work to be transferred to production so he doesn't have to redo this work.
Bob has hundreds of tuned forecast profiles that he's created in QA, and obviously doesn't want to have to redo this work.
I know that the GUIDs are specific to the system in which they're generated, but is it possible to port Bob's work from QA to production?
Does anyone know the table linkages between, /SAPAP/DP_FCST2, /SAPAPO/DP440G and /SAPAPO/DP440P??
My analysis appears to show that the strategy selection and alpha, beta, etc settings are stored in /SAPAPO/DP440P... but I don't know how the GUID in this table links back to the one stored in /SAPAPO/DP_FCST2??
Any help you could provide me (and Bob) would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advanced everyone!
Best
Chris
PS: I've read through the document "Assignment of Forecast Profiles and Mass Maintenance in APO DP" posted by Vishal Laddha of Accenture but it doesn't quite capture what I'm after here... i.e. Vishal describes how to port the forecast level not the settings them selves.