Forecasting the Pattern vs the Cause: The Smoothing Trap in SAP IBP
Forecasting the Pattern, Not the Cause: Why Smoothing Over Events Distorts Your Demand Signal Actual Worst Practice in SAP implementations: Removing all events from historical data and making it flat to produce a smoothed forecast!! Ask yourself: is your forecast capturing demand — or just smoothing over it? 📊In SAP IBP, too many planners still default to exponential smoothing [...]