Demand Forecasting in Retail with SAP UDF
Tips & Tricks
The demand forecast capability within SAP’s Customer Activity Repository has seen an increased uptake over the past 12 months as customers are leveraging the Unified Demand Forecasting functionality for Promotions, Replenishment as well as Planning functions.
Within this 4-part webinar series, our solution experts will introduce you to SAP UDF and take you through the various components of the functionality. Having gained hands-on implementation experience over the past 3 years, we will share some of the tips and tricks and our lessons learned.
Why should you attend?
If you are starting with, are in the middle of or are planning an implementation of SAP UDF, you will get an understanding and appreciation of the solution as well as be able to leverage the experiences shared during the webinar series.
We will go under the covers and explain how some of the functions work, the do’s and don’ts to avoid, how to overcome common challenges, where to focus on performance bottlenecks and how to measure SAP UDF against other forecasts.
When do we start?
Webinar 1: Introduction and Overview
Introduction to retailsolutions
Overview of SAP UDF – what is it what does it do?
Date: 19th May 2021 / 1:00 pm UK time
Webinar 2: SAP UDF Foundation
- Core data
- Basis for consumption
- Configuration
Date: 2nd June 2021 / 1:00 pm UK time
Webinar 3: SAP UDF Framework
- Priors Calculation
- Modelling
- Forecasting
Date: 16th June 2021 / 1:00 pm UK time
Webinar 4: SAP UDF Fulfilment
- Forecast Quality
- Forecast Consumption
Date: 30th June 2021 / 1:00 pm UK time
Each webinar will be around 30min plus Q&A.
The webinar series will be conducted in English.
Our experts for SAP UDF will share their experience with you:

Frank Theobald
Partner retailsolutions
Head of Competency Center SAP SCM & F&R

Karl Bend
retailsolutions UK
Head of CC Intelligent Ordering UK/Nordics