Demand Planning: creation of several Instances or Organizations

Hello,
I have to setup and ODP environment for several entities. The data will come from legacy systems (not Oracle Applications) from each entity.
We will have as many plans as entities. I would like to know if it is better to create only One Instance, and each entity is defined as organization, or if it is better to create one Instance for each entity.
What are the pros and cons of each method ?
Thanks in advance.

ct,
It is usually about common data and workload.
If going the Instance per Entity route: each Instance will require a full collection of data (Products, Bill of Materials, Customers, Organisation etc.) to set up the structures that Demand Planning needs. There can be tremendous data management issues with having multiple instances.
If your multiple entities share common data then it would be easier to manage them as Organisations of one Instance. The maintenance and loading of data would be much easier. The new Demand Plan Scoping functionality will also enable easy Demand Plan creation per Org.
Making the assumption that your entities don't share common data I would advise doing some analysis to determine how easily they could be merged and what the maintenance effort would be. If the source data is merged then you may get benefit in reduced customisation of hierrachies and data streams.
Regards
Simon.

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