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Setting Up Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning ( RELNAPO_30A_SP1_FCS_SNP )

Setting Up Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning ( RELNAPO_30A_SP1_FCS_SNP )

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Setting Up Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning

Scope of Functions

Follow these steps to set up Demand Planning if you are working with the APO system for the first time. If you are upgrading from APO Release 2.0A, see Effects on Existing Data below.

In a later support package you will be able to adopt this procedure for Supply Network Planning as well. In Release 3.0A (First Customer Shipment and Support Package 1) SAP recommends that you use the standard planning books to do Supply Network Planning, creating additional planning books, if necessary, using the standard ones as templates. For more information on the standard planning books, see the release notes Saving Data in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning and Interactive Planning Interface.

Setup Procedure

  1. Decide which key figures you want to store in InfoCubes and which key figures you want to save in liveCache. Typically you store actual data for Demand Planning in an InfoCube, along with old planning data; and you save current planning data in liveCache.
  2. Create the key figures that you want to use for planning, and that you have not already created in an InfoCube, by choosing Tools -> Edit Info Objects in the Admin Workbench. If you wish to be able to fix (that is, lock) the values of a key figure in interactive planning, enter the key figure to which the fixed values should be saved in the field Fixed key figure. You find this field on the tabstrip Type/unit.
  3. In the Administrator Workbench, check to see if the characteristics delivered with the system are sufficient for your needs.
The system comes with standard characteristics; for example, 9AMATNR for product and 9ALOCNO for location. If you intend to use APO applications other than or in addition to Demand Planning, you must use these standard characteristics. For more information, see step 10 below.
  1. If the characteristics delivered with the system are not sufficient for your needs, create them by choosing Tools -> Edit Info Objects in the Admin Workbench.
Create only characteristics that will represent planning levels, not characteristics that will be used for selection and navigation.
  1. For characteristics that you want to use for selection and navigation, but not as planning levels, create attributes and assign the attributes to a characteristic that you will use for planning. This procedure offers a way to plan multiple characteristics while achieving optimum system performance.
For example, assign the attributes sales representative and priority to the characteristic Customer.
  1. If you intend to store one or more key figures in an InfoCube, create the InfoCube(s) in the Administrator Workbench. You access the Administrator Workbench via Demand Planning current settings or in Customizing. Create BW InfoCubes, not APO InfoCubes.
  2. Create storage bucket profiles to define the periods in which data is stored. To do this, choose Demand Planning -> Environment -> CurrentSettings -> Periodicities for planning area. If you include months and weeks in the storage profile, the data is stored separately for parts of weeks that fall into different months. For example, data for October 30 and 31 (Monday and Tuesday) is stored in a different period than data for November 1 through 3 (Wednesday through Friday). See also the release note on storage bucket profiles.
  3. Create planning bucket profiles to define the periods in which data is displayed and planned. To do this, choose Demand Planning -> Environment -> Current Settings -> Maintain DP/SNP Time Buckets Profile. You can use different planning bucket profiles for the past and the future. For more information, see the release note on planning bucket profiles.
  4. Create the APO versions that you want to use for Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning, and assign these versions to a supply chain model.
This step may also be come earlier in the administration procedure.
The concept of versions is different than in previous releases. In Release 2.0A there were two kinds of versions: demand planning versions, which were saved in InfoCubes, and APO versions, which were assigned to models and saved in liveCache. In Release 3.0A there is only one kind of version: the APO version. The APO version is used in all applications including Demand Planning.
In Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning, data is now divided up according to planning area, a further subdivison of which is the version. Consequently, the data you save to planning version 1 in planning area 1 does not overwrite the data in planning version 1 in planning area 2.
  1. In S&DP Administration, create and activate a master planning object structure. Access S&DP Administration by choosing Demand Planning Environment Current Settings S&DP Administration.
A master planning object structure contains plannable characteristics for one or more planning areas. It is the structure on which all the other planning object structures are based.
The characteristics can be either standard characteristics and/or ones that you have created yourself in the Administrator Workbench.
Note
In Support Package 1 you must run program /sapapo/ts_d_objects_copy to create the standard characteristics in your system. To do this, use transaction SE38.
Note
If you do not use Supply Network Planning or Characteristics-Based Forecasting, but you do use other APO applications such as the Product Master or Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), you must include the characteristics 9AMATNR to represent products and 9ALOCNO to represent locations.
  1. If you wish to work with SNP, select SNP-relevant. The following characteristics are automatically included in the master planning object structure:
9AMATNR product
9ALOCNO location
9ARNAME resource
9APPMNAME production process model (PPM)
9ATRNAME transportation lane
9AACTNAME activity

  1. If you wish to do characteristics-based forecasting, select Relevant to char.fcst.. The standard characteristics that you need to do Characteristics-Based Forecasting (CBF) are automatically included in the master planning object structure:
9AMV_PROF CBF profile
9AMV_TAB CBF table
9AMV_ROW CBF row
9AMATNR product

  1. If you select DP-BOM relevant, the characteristic 9APPMNAME is automatically included in the master planning object structure. This characteristic allows you to plan the components in the products bill of material in Demand Planning. This function is not supported in APO 3.0A FCS or APO 3.0A Support Package 1.
  2. Include any other characteristics that you will need.
Do not include version as a characteristic.
  1. Activate the planning object structure. You must activate it in order to be able to plan.
  • In S&DP Administration, create the aggregates in which you wish to save data.
  • The aggregates in APO are not the same as those in the Business Information Warehouse (BW), but they have the same purpose: to speed up data access and therefore increase performance. SAP recommends that you use aggregates in APO.
    An APO aggregate contains a subset of the characteristics in the master planning object structure. The creation and use of aggregates is optional. The data is always saved on the lowest level of detail. If aggregates exist, the system saves the planning data on the defined aggregate levels as well as on the lowest level of detail. The data is saved twice, but consistently; that is, the sum of the details equals the aggregate value.
    You create aggregates for use in a master planning object structure of APO by clicking with the right mouse button on the master planning object structure in S&DP Administration and choosing Create aggregate.
    1. Create a planning area.
      1. In S&DP Administration, click with the right mouse button on the node Planning area and choose Create planning area.
      2. Enter a name for the planning area, the master planning object structure on which you wish the planning area to be based (you can use a master planning object structure in more than one planning area), the name of liveCache to which you wish the data to be saved, a storage buckets profile, the currency and unit of measure in which you intend to plan, as well as an exchange rate type. Choose Enter.
      3. On the tabstrip Aggregates, select the aggregates that you wish to use as planning levels, and copy them to the left side of the screen.
      4. On the tabstrip Key figures, select the key figures you wish to use in this planning area from the master planning object structure, and copy them to the left side of the screen.
      5. Configure each of the selected key figures. To access the configuration screen, click on the button Detailed key figures viewon the top left of the tabstrip Key figures.
    In particular, you must specify whether data is to be read from and stored in an InfoCube, time series liveCache or orders liveCache. As a general rule, you store current planning data in liveCache and old planning data together with actual data in InfoCubes. See separate release note and F1 Help.
    1. On the tabstrip Key figure aggregation, define how each key figure should be aggregated and disaggregated. The default calculation type is pro rata. The default setting for time-based disaggregation is equal distribution over the number of workdays; in Release 3.0A FCS this is the only option available. For more information, see the F1 Help.
    2. On the tabstrip Key figure assignment, remove from the aggregate any key figures that you do not want to save at this level.As a general rule, you plan values on a high level (for example, region) and quantities on a lower level (for example, product).
    3. If you wish to use your own characteristics in Supply Network Planning in addition to the ones mentioned in step 10 above, create hierarchical characteristics. This step is not relevant for Demand Planning.
  • Customize the forecast settings of the key figures in the planning area by clicking with the right mouse button on the planning area and choosing Forecast settings.
  • Create plannable characteristic value combinations by choosing Master Data -> Demand Planning Master data -> Maintain characteristic values. The procedure is now based on the master planning object structure. Graphical maintenance is not supported in Support Package 1.
  • If necessary, calculate constant proportional factors. Constant proportional factors are not supported in Release 3.0A First Customer Shipment or Support Package 1.
  • Initialize the planning area by clicking with the right mouse button in S&DP Administration on the planning area and choosing Initialize for planning version. (In later support packages, this option is called Create time series objects.) You must initialize the planning area each time you wish to work with a new planning version, and each time you update the DP master data (characteristic value combinations). This step is necessary only if you save the data to liveCache time series.
  • For Demand Planning, create forecast profiles by choosing Demand Planning -> Environment -> Maintain forecast profiles from the SAP Easy Access menu.
  • Create planning books and planning views (see separate release note). SAP provides standard planning book views for use in
    • Demand Planning, to do forecasting using any forecast strategy, multiple linear regression or composite forecasting

    • Supply Network Planning, to do Sales & Operations Planning, Distribution Resource Planning, Transport Load Building or Vendor-managed Inventory

    1. In Customizing, assign the planning books and planning views to individual users.

    Effects on Existing Data

    Before you can continue working in a live DP environment, you need to perform certain conversions. For more information, see note 301488. A full set of conversion tools is not available in Support Package 1.






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