Safety Stock Issue

Hello Gurus,
We are in SCM 4.0 and currently we are facing an issue in safety stock calculation.
We run a macro to calculate the safety stock. The safety stock for a particular bucket is calculated by the sum of total demand of next consecutive 4 buckets. The problem is that the macro works fine if we select a single product-location combination but when we select a product at multiple locations combination (aggregated level) the macro doesnt work. The value is not displayed in the planning book. However, we could see the total demand value for that particular bucket.
Hope I am clear and please help me on this.
Thanks,
Sai

Hello all,
I have a quick question:
Do we need to maintain the data at Location-Product Group level to go for Aggregated Safety Stock Planning?
Let me explain my case:
We have the following selections at Location-Product level:
Sel1: Prod1 at Loc1
Sel2: Prod1 at Loc2
Sel3: Prod1 at Loc3
When I make either of these selections individully in the Planning book the safety stock macro works fine but if I make any of these two selections or all the three selections at a time, then the values does not show up at the Total but I can see the values at 'Details' level if I select Location at the Header Information.
We are thinking of Aggregated Safety Stock Planning and We do not mainatain the data at Group level. Can we still go for Aggregated Safety Stock Planning?
Could anyone give me some suggestions on this?
Thanks
Sai

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Happy Holiday!
I would like to ask for your assistance on how the the safety stock and reorder point was calculated with the following values available. I would really appreciate it if you could give me details on the calculation.
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Use
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material master data maintenance
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Dependencies
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Rgds
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