Demand Planning Integration Best Practices: SAP SCM Perspective – PART 2
Author(s): <p>Rajesh Azmeera</p>
Abstract
SAP Supply Chain Management is one of the key modules in SAP ERP and controls Production Planning, business forecasting and demand planning. It helps the organization to manage their supply chain process in a dynamic environment. SAP SCM is a complete software to cover key processes such as supply chain networking, supply chain planning and coordination, and supply chain execution.
Introduction
Demand planning integration we now offer an integration of key figures from SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) into the new flexible constraint framework available in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS). Will detail all the steps in Demand Planning. The purpose of this article is to describe the general configuration steps required to manually set up the configuration within the system landscape that has already been installed using the corresponding installation or configuration guides for installation.
This article supplements the existing Customizing documentation in the Implementation Guide (IMG) and provides additional information where required.
Configuration
For your planning process, you need to make a selection that restricts the range of products and locations. To do this, you create one or more selection profiles. The demand planner uses the selection profile to quickly access frequently used selections. Here we will create one selection profile for mass process job, 3 profiles for Interactive Planning by each local planner, another 1 profile for Interactive Planning by central planner.
Prerequisites
You need to have initialized the planning version 001 for your planning area. To access the planning book choose one of the following navigation options:
On the Planning Book screen, choose one Planning Book and Data View, in the third window from above on the left side. If the No valid version exists for planning area '9ADP0 Do you want to initialize a planning version? dialog box is displayed; choose No in the Initialize planning version?
Choose Data View. Choose Selection window in the left screen area. The Object Selection dialog box is displayed. From the possible entries list in the Show field, select Product. The planning version 001 is automatically assigned in the field to the right of the APO Planning Version field. In the second row, restrict the range of products by specifying only those products that you actually need for your planning task. To do this, select Product and choose Multiple Selection for Object. On the Select Single Values tab page, enter the following products with extensions, for example:
L*
S*
In the third row, restrict the range of products by specifying only those areas that you actually need for your planning task. To do this, select Area and choose Multiple Selection for Object. On the Select Single Values tab page, enter the following products with extensions, for example:
AME
APJ
EU
In the Objects Selection dialog box, choose Save selection. Enter YDP_MP_ALL_PROD_LOC as the selection description, and choose Save.
Choose Adopt
To store the saved selection in your selection profile, choose Maintain selection profile in the second window from above in left screen area. In the Maintain Selection Profiles for Users dialog box, use drag and drop to transfer the saved selection from the right area to your selection profile on the left.
Choose Save and Copy
To display objects that belong to a selection profile, choose the selection. The system displays the objects in the upper left screen area.
Repeat the steps 2 - 14 to create the other selection profiles, according to the following table:
Planning Area, Planning Book and Data View and Forecasting. SAP Supply Chain Management, Demand planning, Forecasting will have more number of case studies and methodologies. We’ll cover few more in next article [1-25].
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