Managing characteristic value combinations in APO DP

I am using APO DP V5.
I have two questions regarding characteristic value combinations (CVCs) in APO DP:
1. Suppose I am planning with planning characteristics of product and customer. I have existing CVCs of product 1 at customer A, and product 2 at customer B. Suppose I have new sales history data in a Cube for a 'new' CVC product 1 at customer B. I assume that if I try and load from the Cube to the planning area then system will object because CVC does not exist? And so I should <u>first</u> generate CVC from the Cube.
2. Suppose I want to plan for new CVCs, for which there is <u>no</u> sales history available.
Looking at transaction /SAPAPO/MC62, I could follow options of:
(a) generate CVCs from a 'dummy Cube' which I load from a spreadsheet
(b) load from a 'file' (eg tab delimited)
My questions:
2a. Which option is best practice? The 'file' option looks simpler
2b. For the 'dummy Cube' option, what fields are required - is it just the planning characteristics, eg product, customer in my example, and planning version. Does one have to include a 'dummy' key figure as well?
Thanks for any advice.
Bob Austin

Hi Bob,
The Somnath and Harish answered your first two questions. Regarding the characteristics that you need to have in your "dummy cube", the simple rule isyour Planning Object Structure has to be a subset of "dummy cube" or the dummy cube should have all the characteristics in your Planning Object Structure and can have more..
The key figure is irrelevant for CVCs as they are only master data. But the CVCs are only those combinations that have a transaction data value. Let me explain this with example: your dummy cube has the following data
Cust---Div-SalesOrg-Company-qty.----no.of records
PA----01---LAALT20--
5
GB----02---MGOLR50--
2
MD----05---RIPIL10--
1
PA----02---LAALT20--
6
MI----01---LAPLM20--
7
PA----01---LAALT20--
2
Your planning Object Structure has
customer, division and company
When you reference the dummy cube and create CVCs, here is the list
Cust---Div---Company
PA----01-----ALT
GB----02-----OLR
MD----05-----PIL
PA----02-----ALT
MI----01-----PLM
PLease
Observe that the dummycube is a superset of your Planning Object Structure and the CVCs are generated for only those possible combinations of characteristics in Planning Object Structure that have a transaction data value in your dummy cube.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Thanks.

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