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david_serre · 04-02-2024

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, ...

david_serre · 02-01-2024

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...

david_serre · 11-30-2021

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...

david_serre · 09-15-2021

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...

david_serre · 07-22-2021

Introduction In an previous blog post we introduced a new explainable AI feature called the Prediction Explanations. This new feature allows you to understand what factors led to a specific prediction (available for classification and regression). W...

david_serre · 12-01-2021

Hi henry.banks Thanks very much for the encouraging feedback. We also think it's important to make Predictive Planning even more automated. Best regards, David

david_serre · 08-04-2021

Hello,I agree that making the Explanation Rank a dimension in the first place would be ideal and it was what we planned to do initially. Unfortunately, overriding the default dataset behavior was technically more challenging than expected, so we had ...

david_serre · 07-22-2021

The feature is already available to our partners with test & demo tenants. It will be released to customers on quarterly release schedules in the August release (aka 2021.Q3 QRC).

david_serre · 07-15-2021

Hello,There is no absolute values for "good" or "bad" MAPE. It completely depends on what you considerer good or bad for your specific business case. I would usually consider a MAPE of 5% a very good MAPE but maybe it's not that good for my specific ...

david_serre · 06-28-2021

Hello Souleymane,First be sure that you are using the performance that best fits your requirements and your use case. In our example using the MAPE to evaluate the prediction accuracy may not be the best choice. The MAPE tends to exaggerate the error...

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