Patent ID: 8874561

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium comprising program code, which when executed on a processor causes the processor to perform a method, the method comprising: storing data in a database designed for supply chain management and planning scenarios, wherein the data, whose structures are configurable, comprise of a time series; providing a set of key figure values, each key figure value in the set of key figure values being associated with an individual time period, wherein the time series comprises two or more consecutive individual time periods; and associating the set of the key figure values with a combination of parameter values, wherein the set of key figure values is organized and stored in a number of configurable clusters based on the association of the key figure values and the individual time periods in the time series, a size of a configurable cluster being based on either (i) a number of key figure values in the set of key figure values in each entry in a database table within the database or (ii) a semantic relation between the individual time periods and a cluster time period.