Demand Plan and Supply commit

The forecast or demand plan from Demantra (monthly bucket) is sent to suppliers by Collaboration planning Via ASCP (broken to weekly bucket). The supply commit will be received through CP (wkly bucket) to ASCP (wkly bucket) to Demantra (aggregated to monthly).
The reason being demantra values are in montly bucket and we want weekly break up and thats why we are thinking to use ASCP.
Is this true?
View Plan vs. commit by month in Demantra
View Plan vs. commit by week in ASCP
CP is a portal for file exchange
Or supply commit is visible only in CP?
Please explain and suggest alternate design if possible?
Thanks

Hi,
You need to define the SNP Demand Profile and SNP Supply Profile in the Product Location master data.
Goto -> /n/SAPAPO/MAT1 -> On the selection screen below the Product / location fields, you see the fields for
- Lot Size Profile
- Demand Profile
- SNP: Demand Profile
- SNP: Supply Profile
- Deplloyment Profile.
Here you can enter the name of any profile you want to create and use the 'Create' button to create your profile. This will be then available for selection when you create your Product Location master.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you still have any doubts.
Cheers,
Srinidhi
Hope this helps.

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Release Demand Planning to Supply Network Planning

1. /SAPAPO/MC90 - Release Demand Planning to Supply Network Planning
In the above t.code i am not able to change the target planning area- it has greyed out
2. I need thisto be changed becuase i have defined my own snp planning area.
any clues how to do this >
reg
dsk

hi dsk
Dont worry about the greyed out target planning area in the "release :extended" option. It is the default. In general if you release the forecast from a demand planning book , it means that you are releasing the foreacast values from the time series live cache to order live cache. That is the forecast value which was just a quantity value in the time series live cache will now be associated to a specific category.
Once you release the forecast from DP to SNP you should be able to see the forecast value in all the SNP planning books that have forecast key figure. The forecast is not released to a specific planning book, it is released to the order network and will be available to view in all SNP planning books. So just go ahead and execute MC90 . After that you can make sure if the values are reflecting in SNP by going to /n/sapapo/rrp3 and checking the material . You should be able to see values under cateogry "FC Req". After this you can try loading the material in planning book and u must be able to view the results.
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What is demand planning and shop floor plannig, explain briefly?

I like to know and understand about demand planning and shop floor plaining? please explain briefly?
Thank you,
york

Hi Les,
<b>Demand Planning</b> is
Application component in the Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) that allows you to forecast market demand for your company's products and produce a demand plan.
APO Demand Planning has a data mart in which you store and maintain the information necessary for the demand planning process in your company. Using this information along with user-defined planning layouts and interactive planning books, you can integrate people from different departments into the forecasting process. The APO DP library of statistical forecasting and advanced macro techniques allows you to create forecasts based on demand history as well as any number of causal factors, and use a consensus-based approach to consolidate the results. Marketing intelligence and management adjustments can be added by using forecast overrides and promotions. The seamless integration with APO Supply Network Planning supports an efficient S&OP process.
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kp

Handling Planned order created from Demand planning and Sales order in MTO

Hi all
In MTO\ Repetitive we genrate Dependent requirement from demand planning (PIR) after running MRP which finally planned order created but on the other hand in short term we have Sales order which generate planned order after running MRP(In MTO), How we should handle planned order generated from Demand planning and the ones generated from sales order.(both after MRP Running).
Regards
Babak Bolourchi

Dear,
You can combine the planning strategy also main as 56 and second as 65 and in demand managment MD61 you have the option select requirement type.
Then while creating sales order use MTO strategy and take MRP run through MD50 and then MD02.
and if you want to assign the stock to sales order then you and do it through MB1b with 412 E movement type.
As per my knowledge, generally 56 strategy only takes Sales Order Stock into consideration.
Consider setting the Individual/Collective indicator to 2.
Mark those characteristics that should have a usage probability in demand management as Relevant for planning.
Hope clear to you.
Regards,
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SAP ERP - Demand Planning and Forecasting

Dear all,
my customer is a wholesale company. They want to use a component in SAP ERP (not SAP APO), in order to make demanding planning and forecasting for the materials , quantities and dates they should make the purchases in order to cover the demand of their customers. What is the component that should be used in order to achieve this?

MRP can be used without production planning. SOP and Demand Management are not Production.
Nevetheless, if you want a simpler planning cycle, provided that you understand its ads and cons, you could go for Consumption Based Planning MRP.
See this link for details:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/7d/c2821c454011d182b40000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
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Spare parts Demand Planning and Forecasting SCM

Hi ,
I am APO DP consultant can any body help me on questions on AS-IS and To-Be analysis Of Spare Parts Demand Planning and forecasting in SAP SCM.
If You have any Documents or links or nay information on these please give replay.
Ram

Dear Ram..
SPP is purely base on BOD (Bill of Distribution)..
following are the points u can cover in AS is TOBE..
1. On what Level (Chs) the Client performing Spare Parts Planning?nd how u want to disagreegate on lowest level ie.Hierarchy Level?
Ex. from Region..to Branch..to ..Customer..
2. Have u configured Spare Parts in R/3?
3. What is the Pattern of Sales History?Seasonal/Trend/Constant etc?
4. u can ask questions on Deployment...Inventory?
5. What is the Lead Time for Procurement?Distribution?Transportation?
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/a3/7ed240caeb752ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
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Demand Planning and eSOA

I am an SCM consultant, with particular interest in Demand Planning.
I am experienced with SAP APO, but am now interested in how the emerging eSOA environment can help with Demand Planning solutions.
Can anyone share thoughts/experiences of how web services in general and SAP eSOA in particular can provide 'added value' to Demand Planning?
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Bob Austin, Atos Origin

Generally speaking, the demand plan or forecast is ultimately the "image" of the demand side that the supply side wishes to "mirror" or fulfill against. This view is a consolidation of many views from several players on the demand side -- whose input is provided to a much smaller group of planner-users of the Demand Planning tool.
What eSOA does is to essentially extend the Demand Planning process to this larger audience via a number of means:
The new Duet/Excel capability is one example of this extensibility. Think of all the spreadsheets that are being used to do <i>something</i> associated with the demand management process that you can now start to inject some process discipline and control into.
Another example is the ability to integrate with tools like 3rd party sales force automation or channel partners across mobile devices, etc. Because eSOA decouples the interaction layer from the data itself, I now have greater flexibility to extend and collaborate across an increasingly fragmented "demand chain" and different types of users and devices. The opportunity to add value requires some analysis and creativity -- but we are in the age of user-driven innovation and eSOA is designed for this "self service" paradigm.
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Forecast Model in Demand planning and E book Sap trainingcourse

Dear Experts ,
I am Exploring differnt Forecast Model , like constant
model, trend model, seasonal model, trend and seasonal model, Croston method
with exponential smoothing, linear regression, and causal models with multiple
linear regression (MLR).
is there any SAP links or material or course availabe to learn more about Forecasting Techniques that we can use in Demand Planning in APO
if you have idea please help me to learn .. i am really starving for this techniques
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Cheers & Thanks
Raj

Hi Raj
Below link will give you entire information on forecasting models, forecasting accuracy technequues etc,:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/33/437a37b70cf273e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
For MLR refer the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/ac/216ba4337b11d398290000e8a49608/frameset.htm
Which is the best model to use:
You should try running forecasting using various model(seasonal, seasonal linear, linear, constant etc) and comapre
the forecast accuracy and find out which one is the best suitable.
Another way is to choose auto model which will select the best possible forecast strategy and give the result.
I hope thos will help you.
Please let us know if you require any more information.
Thanks
Amol

SAP SNP and Demand Planning

Can someone provide some links or papers which have details of extracts from SAP SNP and Demand Planning and APO in general?
I am aware of help.sap.com links
Thanks

Hi,
Check these.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5f229690-0201-0010-84ba-9ee5a8958a05
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4fe5d590-0201-0010-6c8d-ada86492cf11
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/BBLibrary/documentation/B84_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_DE.doc
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv335/BI_EN/html/BW/DemPlanAnal.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/bi/apo%2b-%2bbw%2badhoc%2breporting
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Pros and cons Demand Planning in APO or ECC

Hello,
is there a paper/pdf out there describing the pros and cons of DP in APO and ECC. We are planning to implement demand planning and are in an evaluation face whether to go with an APO solution or not. The financial aspect is not an issue. We already have the licensing in place for APO and ECC.
Which solution provides better flexibility and usability? Have any of you guys got experience with implementing demand planning in a non-manufacturing orgnisation. That is we are looking for a tool to forecast/plan external and internal procurement.
Any suggestions are welcome.

Hi ,
Definitely APO DP have many advantage over ECC.
=> More Flexibility than ECC demand management
=> Complex statistical tool can be used for forecasting
=> Complex macros can be build as per the business need
=> Easy visilbility & maintenance of the data
=> Advance Demand planning functionalities like Promotional planning, LCM, Management decisions, etc can be incorporated easily.
Also refer the details provided in the below thread for more details:
General Discussion - Why to choose APO over R/3 for planning?
Re: General Discussion - Why to choose APO over R/3 for planning?
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Nawanit

Unfreezing the Months in Demand Planning book.

Hello Experts,
User has limited access of change mode (6 months) in a particular demand planning book. User wants to extend the change access horizon to 10 months.
Please guide me what necessary steps to be taken so that user has access to do changes for next 10 months instead of 6.
Thank you in advance, points assured .
Regards
Rahul Chitte

Hi Rahul,
We really need more information here to help you.
Let me try and help in guiding you towards that.
Question: Is the user able to see 12 months (May to Apr), but able to change only 6 months (May to Oct ), or the user is able to see only 6 months (may to oct) and unable to see next 6 months (nov to apr).
Scenario 1: User is able to see all 12 months but able to change only 6 months.
Possible Cause - There is no standard setting that lets lockout few periods alone. However pls do check for some default macros that might be setup to lockout specific periods. Look for the use of function cell_input() in the macros within the planning book.
Scenario 2: User is able to see only 6 months.
Possible Cause - The time bucket profile is set for only 6 months.
How to check this?
Go to /sapapo/sdp8b go to dataview tab. Look for the TB Profile ID (Future). Make a note of this name.
Go to /SAPAPO/TR30 - "Maintain Time Buckets Profile for Demand Plng and Supply Network Plng". In this txn give that name. Then click periods. You should be able to see how many months are configured. You need to change the number of periods here. This is assuming you have sufficient time series created to go thru all 12 months.
Pls revert back with your findings incase the problem is not resolved.
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks
Mani
Edited by: Mani Suresh on Apr 9, 2010 2:11 PM

Releasing demand plan from DP into custom categories in SNP.

Hi Gurus,
I need to release the demand plan from DP into SNP custom categories Z1 thru Z4. The key figures that I mapped to these custom categories are created in a non-standard planning area (copied from 9ASNP02).
I am able to release the demand plan using category FA only. Can anyone help me in releasing demand plan into these custom categories in SNP.
Thanks,
Shiv.

Shiv
I did a F1 help on target category field in tcode /n/sapapo/mc90 and this is what i found
For the release of the demand plan to Supply Network Planning, you can specify a category that tells the system which category of orders to release to. An entry in this field is optional, but if you do enter a category it must be a category that represents sales orders or forecasts, such as FA or FB.
You can also release to categories you have created yourself. This allows you to distinguish, for example, between different forecast priorities.
The system proceeds as follows:
1. Has a category been entered in the release profile? If yes, this category is used.
2. If no, has a category been set in the definition of the requirements strategy in Customizing? (You define the product's strategy in the Proposed strategy field on the Demand tab of the product master record.) If yes, this category is used.
3. If no, category FA (forecasts) is used.
So as the F1 help says in the release transaction /n/sapapo/mc90 did you try giving the custom categories ? Also i have one more idea - after the forecast gets released to category FA , copy it to a key figure that is assigned custom cateogries Z1 to Z4.
But just want to understand something . Why do you want to release it to a custom cateory instead of FA ? How are you going to handle the consumption of forecasts by sales orders if you release it to custom category. I think releasing it to a custom category will make your process more complicated since you are altering the standard SAP functionality.
Thanks
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Loading Demand plan data from APO to BW

Hi Gurus,
We have requirement as below.
we have to extract two key figures from APO to BW system
The 2key figures of APO will get data as below:
First key figure has to hold Yearly snap shot and 2nd Key figure has to hold QTY snapshot.
we have constrained production plan & sales plan keyfigures in apo demand planning and the requirement is to extract these 2 keyfigure quaintest into BI.
Data Example as below:
KF1: Yearly snapshot
KF2: Quarterly snapshots
Yearly data means from   Jan to Dec and
Quaterly data is as below
Qtr1 - Dec       JAN to Dec
Qtr2 (in FEB) - Mar to Dec
Qtr3 (in May) - Jun to Dec
Qtr4 (in Aug) - Sep to Dec
so please let me know to how to handle or extract these data into BW.
Thanks,
Shailaja

Hi Venkat,
Yes, both the key figures are ther in the same planning area.
But my question here is how to get that data into BW? meaning...
If APO/DP does the planning in the month of Sep 2010 for Jan to dec 2011 and the
values are like
Sep-10   jan      Feb mar   april may june july aug sep oct   nov dec
               15     14     13      11    10     11     12     16    14         15   22     20
Dec-10   12     14   16        18    29     20    18     15   14    12   17        20
Mar-11          10 12   13       14     15   16    17 18         20
Jul-11                                  20       40     30      40       50
meaning, If the planning is done in the month of Sep 2010 for the yr 2011 as explained above that values should be extracted into BW and the next planning will be done in the month of Dec 2010 again for entire yr of 2011 i.e. Jan 2011 to Dec2011.
But the values should be captured as they are.. that means if i use DSO the values from request1 to request2 will be over written n if i use the cube they will be added up..
Request1 will hold data of Sep2010: planning data
Request2 wil hold Dec 2010 data ....n req3 will hold data of Mar 11...
but users want to see the values or planning figures as they are.
Hope i made my requimrent more detailled.
Please let me know the solution to get the data as it is in BW.
Thanks,
Shailaja

Demand planning help links

Hi Gurus,
I am new to Demand planning and forecasting, Please can you give suggest me some help.sap.com links to demand planning. I am BI technical, I am going to involve in demand planning implementation.
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Regards,
Reddy.

Hi
Go through following link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/8f/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
Regards
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Demand Planning : duplication Planning Engine environment

Hello,
I have defined a Demand plan , and for this plan, some Worksheets, Report, Saved Selection , Measures ... have been built.
Today, I have to create another plan, and I would like to duplicate the same Planning engine environment for this plan.
Is-it possible to do this, or do I need to recreate all measures, worksheets ... ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Would be a nice thing to do but unfortunately you will need to re-create all the objects again. I have a template that details the specifications for each object type and I follow that setup when building the objects inside the new plan.
It is (or was in the Express Server days) technically possible to attach a cube to a Plan - had a situation on a clone build where we had a backup of a cube in Express but had lost the backup of the Planning Server (and therefore the Plan definition). We recreated the Plan on the Planning Server clone as best we could and then attached the cube from the Express backup and it did work - so maybe there could be a shortcut option.
Regards
Simon.

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