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5 SAP APO Questions And Answers

2⟩ What is Outlier group In APO?

Not sure if outlier group exist in APO.....

Outlier: Lets say you have planned your expenses @ 500 $ per

month. However due to festivities you see sudden spike in

your expenses in the month of Oct, Nov and Dec (say by 400

). Your annual forecast was 6000 but due to recent 3 month

activity actual is 7200. These spikes are called outlier.

Smoothing: When you account for these changes over a period

of time (even distribution). In this case it would be 600

per month instead of 500 till Sept and 900 for Oct, Nov & Dec.

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3⟩ What is meant by functional specifications involved in poand ap?

Functional specifications are needs to prepared and given

by functional consultant to the technical team or ABAP

Consultant.. so that they make enhancements..develop as per

clients requirements.

Asume that you have purchase report: which contains

characters and key figures.. such as PO DATE, MATEIRAL

NUMBER, MATERIAL DESCRIPTION, PO VALUE" AND AND SO ON.. BUT

standard report does'nt support for client's for eg..Total

consumption at production or Qty used it for manufacturing"

One has to give specifications..such why it is required,

what is the use of new object, what specifications are

required to develop by ABAP TEAM..

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5⟩ What is consensus forecast?how its used?what are the FORECAST models involved in?

Consensus forecast refers to a business process, not a

system function. It basically means forecast created with

the mutual agreement of the various business functions,

e.g. supply chain, finance, sales, etc.

As such it is not linked to any statistical forecast models

(I assume you meant that) and you can use any and all

models, it will not create a consensus forecast for you.

You have to take your numbers and discuss and agree about

them with your colleagues of the different departments.

That's what will make your forecast consensus based.

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