Heuristics and PP planning procedure

Hi Gurus,
Please enlighten me on heuristics and PP planning procedure in PP DS and how both these get into effect in planning. Moreover appreciate if you could provide me with some documents on heuristics.
Thanks,
Prasanth

Hi Prasanth,
U can refer to the following links.
help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/64/.../content.htm
help.sap.com/saphelp_scm41/helpdata/en/2e/.../content.htm
Regards
Sunshine

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Hi Gurus,
We have 2 different schedule at the moment for our PO Placing to our supplier :
1. Planning Calendar D01 --> For Seafreight shipment, PO Placing on bi-weekly basis, every Monday and RDD (Request Delivery Date) is on Thursday (11 days after PO Placing)
2. Planning Calendar D02 --> For Airfreight shipment, PO Placing on weekly basis, every Friday and RDD (Request Delivery Date) is on Wednesday (5 days after PO Placing)
Now we have required to change the SEAFREIGHT process by having the PO Placing on weekly basis, every Monday and RDD (Request Delivery Date) is on Wednesday (9 days after PO Placing).
Please let me know the step by step procedure to create a new Planning Calendar and Lot Size Procedure to accomodate this requirement?
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Brijesh

Dear Brijesh:
1. I think you are planning to change the Planning calendare D01.
2. For this go to MD26- GIVE THE plant / palnning calendar id.
3. Then in the CAlc rule for spec peroid - change the day from wednesday to Monday.
4. SAve this and generate periods.
5. Now in the maeterial master- check if you have the lot size as PK and also planning calendar as d01.
6. In the planned dleiveyr times you enter 9 days.
Kindly check this and revert back.
Reg
Dsk

Planning Procedure and Horizon Auto Update

Is it possible to auto update the planning procedure as (4) and SNP, PPDS horizon (360 days) while CIFing material from ECC to APO.
Is their any coding required for the same?
Regards

Hi,
If you want to maintain same value of horizon for all products, you can maintain this in Model & Version management.
PP Planning Procedure can be maintained using MassD.
If you want to maintain different values of PP Planning procedure and Horizon for each product, you can use ABAP code for this. There are CIF user exits from both APO side and ECC side. This is regular process in almost all projects and developers would be aware of these function modules.
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Bipin

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Hi all,
We are at present using PP/DS ( we use PDS in MTS environment) for capacity planning. System generates planned orders
based on the available capacity for the resources. We plan only FG in APO ie., raw materials are getting planned subsequently
in R/3 MRP.
Now we want the system to check the availability of raw materials for the FG before generating planned orders.
Kindly tell broadly which components have to be used in APO / steps to followed.
Thanks in advance.
Durai

Hi Durai,
SAP does differentiate REM with MTO based on planning strategy. Also, planning procedure is important for PPDS.
There are some standard heuristics available for different planning strategies.But the choices are large. Plus, if nothing is applicable, you can develop your own heuristic through ABP algorithm and add to planning.
As regards to heuristics, you need to check whether standard heursitic can serve your purpose. e.g. there are standard MRP heuristic. It will explode PDS for materials planning. At the same time, based on your strategy, it may or may not plan finitely.
Basic difference between MTS and MTO will be that in first case, there will ne netting of demand and receipts while in latter case, each demand is individual segment and cross exchange of receipts between two sales orders is unlikely.
Once you fix your planning heuristic, you need to determine the detailed scheduling heuristic for fine tuning the receipts scheduling. You can go for PPDS otpimizer as well, if very optimized solution is required.
Regards,
Bipin

Configurated sales orders and block planning

Hello
We plan to implement ECC configurated sales orders and APo DP and block planning.
We is the preferable process :
- create the production orders in ECC at time of sales orders creation and run heuristics in apo to cover forecast with planned orders
- send sales orders in Apo run heuristic and convert planned orders to production orders to cover sales orders?
thanks in advance for your help
Patrice

Hi Patrice,
The second process that you have mentioned,
send sales orders in Apo run heuristic and convert planned orders to production orders to cover sales orders?
is the effective and business advantageous process in which you can get optimised plan output planned through APO.
Regards
R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

SNP heuristics and optimiser using transport lane validity dates

I am using APO SNP 5.1.
In particular I am trying to use the SNP heuristics and optimiser for supply planning.
Can anyone confirm whether transport lane validity dates are respected by (a) SNP heuristics and (b) SNP optimiser, ie no transport requisitions will be created during times when the transport lane is not 'open' in terms of validity dates.
Thanks for any advice on this...

Hi,
Irrespective of the SNP planning engine you are using, a t-lane will only be considered if the t-lane is active as per the validity dates.
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Umesh

Difference between Sampling Procedure and Sample-drawing procedure

Friends,
I am new to QM and started learning QM Module. My doubt is what is the difference between Sampling Procedure and Sample-drawing procedure?
The reason for my doubt is, we can determine the sample quantity with Sampling procedure itself. then what is the need of sample-drawing procedure?
Also describe primary, pooled and reserved samples.
Regards,
IMIMINT

Hi,
Sampling Procedure
Definition
A procedure that contains the rules for determining the sample size for an inspection. The sampling procedure also specifies the type of valuation to use for results recording (attributive, variable, or manual).
Use
You assign a sampling procedure to each characteristic in an inspection plan to calculate the sample size.
Sample-Drawing Procedure
Definition
A master data object in which you plan the drawing of physical samples. In the sample-drawing procedure, you specify:
Which categories of physical samples must be drawn
How many physical samples must drawn
The size of each physical sample
Whether the drawing of physical samples must be confirmed
Use
The system uses the information in the sample-drawing procedure together with the information in the inspection plan to calculate the physical sample sizes, and to create physical-sample records when an inspection lot is created.
Primary Sample : It is the sample drawn from the lot directly.
Pooled Sample : It is the sample whcih is combination of 2 or more primary samples.i.e. primary sample sfrom say 3 differetn drums is mixed and tested.
Reserved Sample :sample which is preserved for the testing in future.
or in other words
Primary samples (1st stage)
Physical samples drawn directly from a material or batch that will be inspected or used to create pooled samples.
Pooled samples (2nd stage)
Physical samples to be created by mixing the contents of two or more primary samples from the same material or batch.
Reserve samples
Primary physical samples drawn from a material or batch reserved for future inspection.
Vishal
Edited by: VISHAL JONNALWAR on Feb 4, 2010 6:43 AM

Difference between SNP Heuristics and PP/DS Heuristics

Dear Friends,
I have a basic question regarding Heuristics , is SNP Heuristics and PP/DS Heuristics are same
if not what is the key difference between them
i am very clear about PP/DS heuristics but not sure how heuristics is used for planning in SNP , i am able to read sap help , but could not able to get clear answer
Please help
Thanks & Regards
Raj

Hi Raj,
Heuristics is the simple algorithm which can be attached to any working
module to perform our business requirements.
PPDS Heuristics is used to create procurement proposals for uncovered product requirements
and to carry out planning tasks for products or orders.
This will be used during Production planning run and in interactive planning.
whereas
SNP heuristic is used during capacity levelling and deployment. The SNP Heuristic performs
requirements planning through the entire supply chain network to determine how to satisfy
the customer and/or consumer demand.
SNP heuristic, based on a repair-based planning approach, efficiently plans complex distribution
networks in multi-site production environments.
Regards
R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

Difference between IS and AS in procedure?

difference between IS and AS in procedure?

prakash wrote:
hi,
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/portal.portal_db?selected=5&frame=#sql_and_pl_sql_languages
Here you get everything ..
functionality wise there is no difference between IS , AS of a procedure .
Thanks,
P PrakashI think oracle document do not talk about the Difference or No Difference between IS and AS. So i feel this is not a question that need to be pointed to the document.
To OP
Basically as others said there is no difference between them. They are just gramatical representation.
For example when i create a standalone stored procedure i tend to use AS and when i create a procedure inside a package i tend to use IS. Its just the choice you can make.

Difference between Pension plans and savings plans

Dear Friends,
I'm familiar with the configuration of savings plans. But I have no idea about the pension plans. I realize that some of the basic steps are common to both savings and pension plans but what is the main difference from a config perspective?.
If any one can kindly explain the necessary steps to set up pension plans or if there is any document which talks about it please please let me know.
I appreciate the help and thanks in advance.

IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Health Plans  Define Minimum and Maximum Number of Dependents
Define Cost Variants:
In this step you define cost variants to determine which factors influence the cost of a health plan for an employee. Variants are plan-specific; each plan has its own variant(s).
You do not enter any actual costs in this step. You simply define how costs vary according to:
u2022 Plan
u2022 Option
u2022 Dependent coverage
u2022 Employee data
Before you start to define cost variants, you need to do the following:
1. Determine how often costs vary for all the combinations of option and dependent coverage that you have defined in each plan.
This indicates how many cost variants you need. You can use the same cost variant more than once, for example, if costs are always identical for the dependent coverages 'employee only' and 'employee plus family' within a plan, regardless of the plan option
2. Determine how costs vary according to employee data.
This determines how you need to set up your variants using employee groupings.
For each variant, you can specify a parameter group and cost grouping to determine cost. You can also indicate whether the gender of employees and whether or not they are smokers are cost criteria
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Health Plans  Define Cost Variants
Cost Rules:
You need to define costs for each possible combination of employee grouping in the criteria you have attributed to each variant. If you have not specified any criteria in a variant, you assign one rule only
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Health Plans  Define Cost Rule
Health Plan Attributes:
In this step, you bring together all the definitions relevant to the health plan that you have made in the previous steps.
You assign to each health plan:
u2022 Its options
u2022 Relevant dependent coverages
u2022 The cost variants for the combination of options and dependent coverages
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Health Plans  Assign Health Plan Attributes
Insurance Plans:
In this step, you define general data for insurance plans
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Insurance Plans  Define Insurance Plan General Data
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In this step, you define coverage variants to determined which factors influence the coverage an employee is entitled to in a plan. Variants are plan-specific; each plan has its own variant(s).
You do not enter any actual coverage in this step. You simply define how coverage varies according to:
u2022 Plan
u2022 Coverage option
u2022 Employee data
Before you start to define coverage variants, you need to do the following:
1. Determine how often coverage varies for different coverage options.
This indicates how many coverage variants you need. Note the following:
u2022 If a plan has set coverages (including salary multiples), you need a
coverage variant for each.
u2022 If a plan allows employees to choose any amount of coverage within a
range, you need only one coverage variant.
u2022 If a plan has options, you will need a coverage variant for each option.
2. Determine how coverage varies according to employee data.
This determines how you need to set up your variants using employee groupings. For each variant, you can specify a parameter group and coverage grouping to determine coverage
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Insurance Plans 
Coverage Rules:
In this step, you define the actual coverages for a plan.
You need to define coverage for each possible combination of employee grouping in the criteria you have attributed to each variant. If you have not specified any criteria in a variant, you assign one rule only.
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IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Insurance Plans  Define Coverage Rules
Cost Variants:
In this step you define cost variants to determine which factors influence the cost of an insurance plan for an employee. Variants are plan-specific; each plan has its own variant(s).
You do not enter any actual costs in this step. You simply define how costs vary according to:
u2022 Plan
u2022 Coverage option
u2022 Employee data
Before you start to define cost variants, you need to do the following:
1. Determine how often cost varies for different coverage options:
u2022 If an insurance plan has set flat coverage options and flat costs, you need
to define a cost variant for each flat cost.
u2022 If you have set flat coverage options and the flat costs are directly
proportional to the coverage stated in the flat cost, you need only one
cost variant.
u2022 If an employee can choose any amount of coverage within a range and the
cost of the coverage is directly proportional to the coverage, you need
only one cost variant.
2. Determine how costs vary according to employee data.
This determines how you need to set up your variants using employee groupings.
For each variant, you can specify a parameter group and cost grouping to determine cost. You can also indicate whether the gender of employees and whether or not they are smokers are cost criteria
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Insurance Plans  Define Cost Variants
Cost Rules:
You need to define costs for each possible combination of employee grouping in the criteria you have attributed to each variant. If you have not specified any criteria in a variant, you assign one rule only
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Insurance Plans  Define Cost Rules
Insurance Plan Attributes:
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You define the insurance plan options, then associate to each insurance plan:
u2022 Cost variant
u2022 Coverage variant
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In this chapter, you define these combined limits as follows:
1. The limit that might span 2 or more plans is reduced to a mathematical equation, where there is an amount on one side and plan coverages on the other side. The two sides of this equation are then DIVIDED BETWEEN the two views in this chapter.
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In this step, you define general data for savings plans.
You have defined the relevant type, status, and provider for each plan in the Basic Settings section of the Benefits IMG
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u2022 Plan
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1. Determine how often employee contributions vary for plans and any plan options.
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IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Savings Plans  Define Employee Contribution Variants
Employee Contribution Rules:
In this step, you define the employee contribution limits for each plan.
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u2022 As a fixed amount
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IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Savings Plans  Define Employee Contribution Rules
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u2022 Plan
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1. Determine how often employee contributions vary for plans and any plan options.
This indicates how many contribution variants you need.
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For each variant, you can specify a parameter group and employer contribution grouping to determine employer contribution
IMG Path: Personnel Management  Benefits  Plans  Savings Plans  Define Employer Contribution Variants
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In this step, you define limits for the contributions made by the employer to employee plans. You so this for each employer contribution variant for each plan.
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