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Demand Planning Configuration

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Demand Planning Configuration

DP and SNP data is divided into planning

Data View

areas, and subdivided into versions.

Planning Area contains characteristics, and

Planning Book

key figures for planning, and must be

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initialized before planning.

Key Figures

Characteristics

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Planning Area

Characteristics

Key Figures

Product

Actual Sales

Version

Region

Promotions

000 Active Version

Sales Area

Demand Plan

001 Simulation

Customer

Production Quantity

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Master Planning Object Structure

A master planning object structure (MPOS)

contains plannable characteristics for one or

Planning Area
Characteristics

Key Figures

Version

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more planning areas.

Characteristics determine the levels on which
you can plan and save data. E.g. If planning is

Aggregates

done at say Product level then the MPOS will

contain those Characteristics.

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DP Characteristics, SNP Characteristics

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The MPOS forms part of the definition of a
planning area. The existence of an MPOS is
therefore a prerequisite for being able to create
a planning area.

Characteristic Value Combinations

CVC

Generation of CVC is done in MPOS.

Aggregates are also defined here.
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Master Planning Object structure

A master planning object structure contains plannable characteristics for one or more
planning areas.
In Demand Planning, the characteristics can be either standard characteristics and/or ones
that you
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Characteristic Value Combinations

Characteristic Value Combinations (CVC) define the relationship between characteristic values and form the basis for
aggregation / disaggregation of key figure values

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CVC are created in MPOS because it is the MPOS that

contains all the characteristic to decide at which level
planning will be done.

CVC are either created manually or automatically

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generated.

It is against these CVC that values in Key Figure are

stored.

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Planning Area

Planning Areas are the central data structures for Demand Planning and Supply Network
Planning.
Planning Area
(Characteristics and Key Figures)

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Storage Bucket Profile is a prerequisite to have a Planning Area.

General Parameters
Base Unit of Measure

Storage Buckets Profile

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the time
bucket in which data is stored)

Base Currency

Day

Exchange Rate Type

Week
Calendar year/month
Quarter
Year
Posting Period

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Storage Bucket Profile

There are two kinds of time bucket profiles: one is used for
storing data (the storage buckets profile),
and the other for planning the data (the planning buckets
profile). A storage buckets profile defines the time buckets
in which data based on a given planning area is saved in
Demand Planning or Supply Network Planning.

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In a storage
profile,
you specify:

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One or more periodicities in which you wish the data to be

saved
The horizon during which the profile is valid.

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Planning Bucket Profile

Information that is incorporated into the definition of
the past or future time horizon of demand planning.
The planning buckets profile defines the following:
Which time buckets are used for planning

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The sequence in which the time periods with the
various time units appear in the planning table

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Planning Area
Planning areas are the central data structures for Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning.
The planning area is created as part of the Demand Planning/Supply Network Planning setup.
A planning book is based on a planning area. The end user is aware of the planning book, not the
planning area. The liveCache objects in which data is saved are based on the planning area, not the
planning book.

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Planning Area Version

APO Master Data (Model Independent)

Simulation Model

Active Model

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Active Version 000

Planning Version n

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Planning Area
Characteristics

Key Figures

Versions store data for a planning area

To store data for a planning version, time series must be created for that version.

The time series is created in the Live Cache for each CVC, and each key figure.

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Consistent Planning Model

Planning Level

Demand Plannings method of aggregation /

disaggregation is referred to as a consistent
planning model.

Planning

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It utilizes the lowest level of actual data to generate

proportional values throughout its planning network

Changing a value anywhere within this planning

network automatically triggers a proportional repropagation throughout the network.

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distribution ratio that the system derives dynamically

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The data is disaggregated according to the

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Pro Rata Factors

Pro-Rata or
Proportional Factors

from the existing planned data.

Proportional Factors
The proportional factors are percentage-based and
held in the key figure APODPDANT.

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Pro Rata Disaggregation

Summary

DC

Customer

LA

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Detail

Sales

New Sales

350

700
Dis-aggregation

Aggregation

NE

Kmart

100

100

LA

Kmart

150

300

NE

Wal-Mart

50

50

LA

Wal-Mart

200

400

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The Key Figure (E.g. Sales) data is disaggregated according to the distribution ratio that the system derives
dynamically from the existing planned data. The proportional factors are not used in this disaggregation type.

In this example, the data is distributed to Kmart and Wal-Mart in DC LA based on the ratio 3:4 (150:200)

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Proportional Disaggregation

Summary
DC

Customer

LA

Sales

New Sales

Prop. Factors

350

700

1.0

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LA

Kmart

100

100

0.25

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Kmart

150

350

0.25

LA

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50

NE

Wal-Mart

200

350

0.25
0.25

The Key Figure (E.g. Sales) data is disaggregated as per the disaggregation type Based on Proportional Factor

Here, Kmart and Wal-Mart in DC-LA have the same proportional factors (0.25), so the data is distributed equally

The proportional factors are percentage-based and held in the key figure APODPDANT which has to be included
when we create the Planning Area.

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Thank You

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