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FRE_DIF_INIT_LOAD - Initial Transmission of DIF Occurrences

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Purpose

The execution of Forecasting and Replenishment in F&R requires some input from external systems. Parts of this input are information about past and future promotions from the SAP Retail system to predict future demand. This technique is also known as causal based forecasting. It takes into account the fact that the future demand is influenced by other factors than only the past demand. By looking at the historic occurrence of these factors and their impact on the past demand, the system can calculate the potential effect on future occurrences.

To supply F&R with the required data, this report selects promotion data for relevant article/site-combinations and transfers these data as Demand Influencing Factor (DIF) Occurrences to F&R.

Integration

Prerequisites

You must activate the transfer of DIFs to SAP F&R under "Maintain Basic Settings for Data Transfer" - sub screen "DIF Parameters for Promotions" - checkbox "DIF Active" in Customizing (customizing path: IMG > Integration with Other mySAP.com Components > Forecasting and Replenishment > Maintain Basic Settings for Data Transfer).

You have to maintain the settings for creation of DIF occurrences (customizing path: IMG > Integration with Other mySAP.com Components > Forecasting and Replenishment > Maintain DIF Occurrence Profiles for Promotions).

DIF Occurrences can be of different types, e.g. Boolean or Correctional (Additive or Absolute Correction Value). You have to define in customizing which promotion types are mapped to which DIF IDs.

• Boolean: A Boolean DIF occurrence consists of only two possible situations: the DIF is either valid or not. The DIF has discrete occurrences without a value (e.g. promotions). The system evaluates the effect on the consumption of a location product that was caused by a DIF occurrence in the past, e.g. a lift-up factor of 1.5 caused by a promotion. Whenever an occurrence of the same DIF ID is going to happen in the future, the system will apply this effect on the forecast. This type is suitable for mapping events such as public holidays, vacations, sports events and retail promotions.

• Absolute Correction Value: The correction value replaces the forecast values during the time period of the occurrence.

Example: Planning data of a sales promotion in a push process (containing the normal demand).

• Additive Correction Value: The correction value is added to the forecast values during the time period of the occurrence .

Example: Planning data of a sales promotion (not containing the normal demand).

For some DIF types the promotion quantities have to be determined and transferred. In the DIF Customizing profile, settings can be made to define whether and how the promotion quantities are to be determined. When transferring the DIF occurrence to SAP F&R, this value is transferred to the SAP F&R DIF interface (as a header attribute of the DIF occurrence).

Features

Selection

In general, only data for article/site-combinations stored in table FRE_DB_ART_SITE will be processed. With the settings on selection screen the data selection and data transfer from this specified amount will be affected.

The selection parameters of the selection sub screens "Promotions" and "On Sale Period" are optional. If there are no entries entered all F&R-relevant information will be determined and sent to F&R. If there are entries, e.g. a range of promotions, only for those given promotions an initial data load of DIF occurrences will be performed. If you enter values in the selection criteria "On Sale Period", only those promotions will be transferred initially to F&R as DIF occurrences whose promotion sales start and / or end date lay within the defined time horizon.

An F4 Help is available for the selection criteria "Promotion"

The checkbox complete data transfer in the sub screen "Checks" is used to determine whether all relevant DIF occurrences for promotions according to the selection criteria are deleted in ERP and F&R and re-transferred newly (checkbox checked) or whether the transfer will only be done for new article-site-combinations whose promotions match the selection criteria(checkbox unchecked). Changes to already sent DIF occurrences, i.e. 'old' combinations of article and site according to the prior sending are not checked and therefore ignored.

For further information see the F1 help of the respective fields.

The "Transfer Settings" sub screen defines the target system.

The "Options for Parallel Processing" sub screen controls the transfer of data. The Records per Package parameter specifies the size of work packages in parallel processing.

Standard Variants

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