APO DP - lifecycle planning

I am using APO DP V5.
I am forecasting at a monthly level, then performing time based disaggregation down to weeks.
So, when performing forecasting using lifecycle planning, the 'phase in'/'phase out' profiles are of course working at a monthly level.
But in fact I want to be able to model the 'phase in'/'phase out' within a month, ie at weekly level.
So, for example, suppose at monthly level, the 'phase in' results in a forecast qty of 0 for month n, and 100 for month n1. But in month n1 I actually want to see quantities of 25, 50, 75, 100 at the weekly level.
Any ideas about how I could do this? I'm thinking about careful use of time based disaggregation factors for instance.
Thanks, Bob Austin, Atos Origin

I would suggest you to havetwo Data views -one in Month and the other in Week. You can have two Forecast Profiles, that are defined that works on weekly and monthly levels. The former can have LC active and the latter may not. These two profiles will create monthly and weekly forecast keyfigures respectively. While doing time disaggregation of monthly forecast keyfigure, use the weekly forecast keyfigure for disaggregation.

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Error Lifecycle planning Basic settings

Hi Gurus
i got an error when iam creating Life cycle planning Basic settings
Error Detail Message-
Analysis of the lifecycle planning customizing setting
errors have been found in your customizing settings.
The Basic settings cannot be saved
Characterstic for product 9amatnr is not in the planning Objce structure.
For detailed information, see consulting note #354660.
we are using Z9amatnr character for product, Plz kindly provide the solution what is this error how to resolve, as iam new to the APO.

Hello,
The above is the general solution for this error.
Could you please check again that the below settings?
1)In /SAPAPO/MSDP_ADMIN, the characterisitc assignment as Product
2)In /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST1, the charactersitic specified as Product
They should be the same characteristic, and should be your customizing characteristic instead of 9AMATNR.
Best Regards,
Ada

Basic Settings for Lifecycle planning

Hello All,
I want to maintain the basic settings of Life Cycle Planning to use Like Profile
Transaction: /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST1 - Lifecycle Planning
My question is; is it a must to use 9AMATNR and 9ALOCNO characteristics in our POS?
I have seen the sentence below in OSS note: 354660
**If you are using a characteristic for a product and do not want to use the 9AMATNR characteristic, you must specify the characteristic you would like to use.The 9AMATNR characteristic must exist in the planning object structure if you want to use it as a characteristic for a product.Only then can a LIKE profile be used.In this regard, see the information on the /SAPAPO/FCST_LIKE user parameter in note 350065.**
What I understand from this sentence is that 9AMATNR is not an obligatory characteristic to use in POS for the purpose of life cycle planning.
However when I do not use 9AMATNR I receive such an error message during the maintenance of Basic Settings for Life Cycle Planning.
*Errors have been found in your Customizing settings
*For detailed information, see consulting note #354660
*The basic settings cannot be saved
*Characteristic for product 9AMATNR is not in the planning object structur
So, does anybody know if is it a MUST to keep the 9AMATNR in the POS for lifecycle planning? May be I am doing wrong something else...
Thanks in advance

While in DP MPOS you are free to choose custom characteristics for location and product, there are certain DP functionalities like Promotion Planning which normally uses 9AMATNR as characteristic for Product. In such cases the DP MPOS in absence of 9AMATNR has an issue. Through this assignment of location and product in the MPOS, system knows the custom characteristic that needs to be mapped to 9AMATNR and 9ALOCNO for product and location.
This is useful during release from DP to SNP also.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
somnath

APO: Interactive Demmand Planning - LOCK/UNLOCK Planning Book

Hi forum,
I need to lock temporaly a Planning Book in /SAPAPO/SDP94 in order to avoid users to be logged as a loading process is running
do you know any standard transaction to do this or have another idea?
thanks in advance
Rasec
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Thanks for your answer, Uma!
I was testing Bapis that you mentioned and I think it's a radical solution because I would be blocking users, I just want to lock a planning book (users can keep logged in the system)
Transaction /n/sapapo/sdpplbk does not guarantee that user can access to planning book (if he/she is smart )
any suggestion?
Rasec
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Hi Cesar/Rasec,
If I understand correctly you want users not to change any data while some background job is being run. One way to handle this would be to lock and unlock the concerned planning area. This will prevent any users from making changes to the data in the planning area which should also mean your background job will not fail due to locks on data selection by users.
For this you can develop customization to do locking and unlocking of the planning area. The function module ENQUEUE_/SAPAPO/E_PAREA can be used to lock planning area while DEQUEUE_/SAPAPO/E_PAREA to unlock the planning area.
Hope this gives you some direction.
Thanks,
Somnath

User Exit in APO to change Planning version defaults

Hi,
Is there any user exit/BADI I can use to User Exit in APO to change Planning version defaults.
Regards,
Tarun

Hi Emmanuel,
I am searching for this exit in APO-DP.I have a requirement where we CIF master data (location) from SAP R/3 to SAP APO.However the location are saved in default planning version/model ( ie 000) I need to save these locations in another planning version and I am looking for an appopriate user exit/BADI which can accomplish this.
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APO DP Promotion Planning

I am using APO DP V5.1 promotion planning.
Is it possible to set up 'promotion phasing profiles' so that, if for example I have a promotion qty of n spread over x weeks, I can phase the qty n across the x weeks in a consistent fashion.
So, I would want a promotion profile called for example 'PROM_4WEEKS' which would have values of 15%, 15%, 35%, 35% for a 4 week split, and another called for example 'PROM_8WEEKS' which would have values of 30%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 10% for an 8 week split. I could then use these profiles to apply to a number of relevant promotions.
Thanks,
Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Hi Bob,
We can interpret it in a different manner. Creating 2 promotions, one for 4 weeks and one for 8 weeks. You can assign these promotions to multiple products. in case you want to assign it to different products, you can copy the promotion from one set of SKU to another set of products.
regards,
Kedar

Lifecycle planning with multiple locations

Hi Experts,
Imagine we have:
1) Product A in Location A
2) Product B in Location B
Now there is a initiative to discontinue production of Product B in location B and it is expected that customers will buy instead Product A in Location A.
So I need to map sales history of Product B in Location B to Product A in Location A. How can I achieve this functionality?
- Life-cycle management allows me to do only within the same location.
- Other option is to do a realignment, but it is too dangerous for often use from my point of view.
Does anyone have implemented some development on this?
Thanks,
Art

Art,
1. If you want to consider using Life cycle planning only , Try creating the life cycle table on Product and Location characteristics. Create the life profile and then maintain both Product A/ Location A values in the lifecycle table.
2. Realignment should be considered as one of the option, if your users are OK with actually copying the sales history to new product instead of just referring the sales history for forecasting without actually copying. Also, as mentioned earlier by Satish, execute realignment in two steps if you want to play safe. Copy first and then delete CVCs belonging to Product B/Loc B as a next step once you are sure the data has been copied correctly to Prod A/Loc A.
Also you could do this in Quality first to feel confident about results.
Hari Vomkarey

Table name in APO for demand planning

Hi gurus,
I want to upload Excel data (forecast demand) into APO SNP for the following fields
APO product
APO product Name
Demand Qty
Demand Date
Can you please tell me the suitable table name in APO for those fields?
Regards
Rajib Pathak

Hi,
APO Product - /SAPAPO/MATKEY
APO product name-/SAPAPO/MATKEY
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Use of graphical settings in APO DP interactive planning

I am using APO V5.
In interactive DP, when looking at data in the graphical view, the system shows key figures with various colours.
Is it possible for a user to save settings so that each time the graphical view is displayed, the same colour scheme is used. For example, always see 'actual history' in green, and always see 'ex post fcst' in blue.
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Bob Austin, Atos Origin

check the SAP note 706092. There are some restictions.
/Shibu
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Lifecycle planning assignment table

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In the Assignment table, when i am entering the Product number and trying to select the either Like Prfl/ PIN or P out profiles, its not happening. But I can enter the profile names manually. But unable to choose from the drop down profiles. Also the profile dates do not show up.
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What is best practice to do APO Demand planning

Hi,
My client wants to implement demand planning.
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For this scenarios user is insisting on ECC and APO-DP interface.
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ECC -> Standalone BI -> Planning area (Planning is done in APO) -> Stand alone BI
Or ECC -> APO-DP (Planning is done in APO) -> Standalone BI system
I hope I am able to explain my scenario.
Regards,
ST

Hi Sujoy,
Thanks for reply.
(1) I have to get Sales Order data from ECC into BI standalone system Cube.
(2) Then from this cube same data is sent to SCM APO - BI Cube.
(3) Planning will be done in SCM APO.
(4) Planned data is again sent to BI standalone system, Using datamart on Planned area.
(5) In BI we will have reporting on cube, which has ECC sales order data and APO Planned data.
But in this case, there is always delay between data loads (firstly ECC -> BI, then BI -> APO, then APO -> BI).
In this case, if a new customer is created, Client wants to see demand planning in latest data.
How do we do APO DP generally?
Do we follow the route from BI, or directly between ECC and APO..
Hope I am able to explain the scenario..

Pls help - Urgent - Planned order transfer from APO to R/3 - inconsistency

Hello experts ,
         Iam creating planned orders in APO using CTM planning. The planned order is getting transferred to R/3 but the order number is different in APO and R/3 .
         I tried deleting the application logs in R/3 and APO using transactions CFGD and C6 and running CTM planning again. But it did not work.
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As other members adviced
Please check the following as a list
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If there are any blocked queues please clear them accordingly.
4) After that perform a reconciliation of the transactional data through.
/n/sapapo/ccr(APO). perform it only for that material and on planned orders.
If there are any errors it will usggest you to follow few steps.
5) then again go back and check the /n/sapapo/cq transaction.
6) Check if the material and its location has publication Types maintained in SPRO transaction.
7) Check if the change pointers of this Planned order exists in /n/sapapo/c5
This si change pointers transaction , soemtimes you can release ti from there also.
If you still have problem, give the resutls of the following for reference.
Let us know once you perform all these.
8) Incase you need to perform the consistency checks externally.

Information on APO or 3'rd Party Planning Software

Dear Experts,
We are into discrete manufacturing with MTO scenario & want to map the planning process in SAP PP. As we experienced in standard SAP PP has the ability to run MRP and perform unconstrained planning. Capacity Leveling is also very difficult task as the no. of orders are huge in our case.
Can some one please suggest the 3'rd party Planning Software that can be integrated with SAP PP. Also suggest some links on APO from where we can see the features / tutorials of APO.
Thanks & Regards,
Srinathan.

Srinathan,
APO is part of SCM. Here is the SAP SCM site with lots of high level info
http://service.sap.com/scm
APO Supply chain planning overview
http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001870512008E
APO online help at
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/92/dd013872af2946e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
I don't make recommendations for third party software. However, SAP now has established a partnership with ICON, who created Supply Chain Response Management, an advanced planning tool which SAP now markets, and considers to be an 'add-in'. Some info by SAP at
http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000739105&
Best Regards,
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How to see planned orders for P3 mrp type products in APO?

Dear experts,
I have materials with P3 MRP type (not planned in APO but in R/3 using MRP)
I have active integration models with P3 and X0 mrp type products for planned orders
however I can not see in APO product view the planned orders for P3 materials,
is this normal or should I see those planned orders in APO?
Thanks for your answer,
best regards
Elynn

Hi,
The following prerequisites must be met so that planned orders can be transferred from SAP R/3 to SAP APO
and vice versa:
1.The material masters must be transferred to SAP APO.
2. PPMs must exist for planning in SAP APO.
3. The relevant integration models must be active.
4. An active integration model for planned orders must exist in SAP R/3.
5.An active integration model must also exist for materials, so that the components of the planned order are transferred.
6.The relevant distribution definitions must be maintained in SAP APO, so that planning results can be
transferred from SAP APO to SAP R/3.
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How to "roll back" SAP APO PPDS planning batch run from infeasible batch mid-point to before start of planning batch run?

Hi Experts,
We are investigating if any SAP customer that implemented SAP APO PPDS has ever attempted to establish a "roll back" of the SAP APO PPDS created supply plan to a defined point before the start of the SAP APO PPDS planning batch run?
We have a situation where - in the middle of the planning batch run - randomly or intermittent the batch run hangs or runs a step for multiple hours that normally, at most days, takes only a few minutes to run. In a situation like this, the supply plan is not in a state where customer sales orders can be promised (using GATP CTP) or planned orders can be converted to production orders and published to SAP ECC, etc since the plan may be capacity infeasible or simply partial or incomplete.   To not hold the business operations hostage to wait resuming operations (promise customer sales orders, convert and release and execute orders to transfer, deliver, produce, or purchase) for hours or days, we need to find a way back to the original plan right before the nightly PPDS batch planning job started.
We already close all the queues from ECC to APO, thus, no CIF traffic from ECC to APO. We also shut down the customer sales order feed into ECC as normal process for duration of the APO PPDS batch planning run. Thus, functionally, we are theoretically in a situation to simply go back to a PPDS and active planning version save prior to the run. Yet, many more technical and BASIS-related questions remain on how to roll back to a state where the plan was not compromised.
This inquiry is to learn if any other SAP customer has ever established a process to roll back SAP APO PPDS to a previous point in time supply plan to resume operations? Whatever the reasons are, be it after a failed batch run, or any time during the normal interactive plan day.
Additional information about our design and plan:
1. We have a two year horizon supply plan in PPDS
2. We only publish to ECC 14 days worth of planned orders, stock transfer requirements, and purchase requirements
3. We convert planned orders to production orders and release production orders in ECC 2 days before first operation starts
4. We convert PR's to PO's and STR's to STO's in ECC 2 days before execution (ship or submit to vendor)
Any indication where a SAP customer has developed and uses a process to roll back an SAP APO PPDS- planned supply plan to an earlier point in time or version would be helpful to know.
Regards,
Manimaran M.

Hi Manimaran,
Saving in Simulation means in DS board when you click on save it provides you option to save sim version or adopt to active version. If you copy to inactive version you cannot copy back trasaction data specially PPDs orders back to active version again while if you save in simulation you can adope it to active version at any point of time. YOu can adopt simulation version changes to active version using T-code /SAPAPO/CDPSS0
Copying to active version means you copy data from version 000 to some other active version while here results are kept simulation,

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