Aggregate planning to support Product Group/Material/SKU 3-level ?

Hello Everyone,
For the AFS and APO integration, we want to have planning run on Product group, Material and SKU.
I know the standard AFS and APO integration will support aggregate planning on Material and SKU level. Will it be able to run SNP aggregate planning on Product group/Material level?
Thanks,
Bin

Dear Bin thanks for clarifying
You can try the below two options if its only for a reporting purpose and no capacity planning has to happen at that level.
1. THRU ABAP: Maintian the Product group in the Product attribute field in the Extra tab of the product master and then a Report can be developed through ABAP which can pick the capacity available to consumed by different product groups. As it will already have the product wise capacity consumed it will be easy to map it for the ABAP person using Product group info. From product attribute tab.
OR
2. IN the MPOS of your linked planning area maintain in the char attributes the Product attribute field 1.
By this when you load the capacity view for a particular you can detail all it Product attribute wise too like product wise.
As you will have maintained Product attribute as Product groups you will have the capacity consumed by each product group.
I havent tried 2nd option myself but i am certain to quite an extent it will work.
Regards
VIrender

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