SAP ABAP Data Element AVGPER (Average number of days in the forecast period)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   ⤷ LO-PR-MTD (Application Component) Forecast Procedures
     ⤷ MCPR (Package) R/3 application development: enhanced forecast functions
Basic Data
Data Element AVGPER
Short Description Average number of days in the forecast period  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type INT4_NOS    
Data Type INT4   4-byte integer, integer number with sign 
Length 10    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 10    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Number 
Medium 18 Avrge no. of days 
Long 20 Average no. of days 
Heading 20 Average no. of days 
Documentation

Definition

Average number of workdays per forecast period.

The system:

  1. Corrects the historical values using this average number of workdays.
  2. Runs the forecast based on the actual number of workdays in the forecast period.

Examples

Your forecast period is "month", and you want the forecast to be run on the assumption that the number of workdays in each month is 20. You therefore enter 20 in this field. The results are as follows:

    History            Forecast

    M1     M2     M3     M1     M2     M3

Original    2000     2000    2000    2000    2000    2000

Days     19     21     23     22     20     18

Corr.     1900     2100    2300    2200    2000    1800

Dependencies

You specify the forecast period in the Period ind. field on this screen. The forecast period need not be the same as the storage periodicity that is set in Customizing (Set parameters of info structures and key figures).

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19991014 
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