How To Fix PR407 - Not sufficient historical values available to create average values

PR407 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: PR - Forecast: Help messages

• Message number: 407

• Message text: Not sufficient historical values available to create average values

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PR407 - Details

• The SAP error message PR407, "Not sufficient historical values available to create average values," typically occurs in the context of SAP's Production Planning (PP) or Plant Maintenance (PM) modules when the system is trying to calculate average values for certain key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics, but it lacks the necessary historical data to perform the calculation.
  
  Cause:
  
  
  Insufficient Historical Data: The primary cause of this error is that there are not enough historical records available for the system to compute an average. This could be due to:
  
  Lack of data entries for the relevant time period.
  Data retention policies that have deleted older records.
  Incorrect configuration or settings that limit the data available for averaging.
  
  
  
  Data 
  Configuration Issues: Sometimes, the configuration settings for the data collection or reporting might not be set up correctly, leading to gaps in the data.
  
  
  Time Frame Issues: The time frame for which the average is being calculated may not align