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LauraTozzo · 02-13-2024

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 ...

LauraTozzo · 11-22-2023

Let us first introduce ourselves. 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. With this blog we want to tell you the story of how we completely cha...

LauraTozzo · 08-30-2023

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 measu...

LauraTozzo · 03-23-2023

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...

LauraTozzo · 03-17-2023

Last Update on February 6, 2024.Looking to optimize your supply chain planning? Look no further than SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain. With a wide variety of embedded and side-by-side intelligent use cases, SAP IBP AI offers master d...

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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...

LauraTozzo · 01-08-2024

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...

LauraTozzo · 11-16-2023

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...

LauraTozzo · 08-24-2023

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

LauraTozzo · 08-10-2023

You can definitely add it by creating custom key figures. Demand Sensing with Gradient Boosting will then analyze the correlation between the newly added key figure and the main input key figure in the past and apply this knowledge to create the futu...

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