Integrated planning help

Question

Hello iam new to integrated planning i would like to know how do we create plan data?what type of data is in realtime cube?what do we in aggregate level and what do in planning sequence.
Thanks
komal

Answer 1

Hi Komal,
We do no create any plan data. Real time data which we input from an input ready query is stored in a real time cube on an aggregation basis. This is done using an input ready query.Aggregation level is like a data slice used for specific data.
Let us take an example.
You have entire sales data of a company in a cube. Let us suppose u have managers of different hierarchies like regional manager, account manager and general manager. Each of them would have their own set of data. For restricting other groups to view individual data, we use the aggregation levels. To filter the data further, we use filter alongside the aggregation level. To do calculations on the data we get from aggregation level , we use planning functions where we use fox formula to manipulate data as per our needs. To integrated different planning functions in sequential order, we use planning sequence.
Say suppose we have three tasks
1.creating info object
2.creating cube
3.loading data
Each of the step is similar to a planning function, which will have specific steps to be followed .And planning sequence will be something like a process chain, where we put each of these in a sequential order to be executed .
We use planning sequences in WAD buttons to create planning applications.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Snehith.