Multiple planning areas

Hi,
At what scenario we use multiple planning areas.pls help me
thanks,
chinni

HI Chinni ,
Following are some of the points which need Multiple Planning Areas .
1.Different functions want to see their respective data in their views ,for ex.sales ,production ,finances need to see their specific related key figures data .
2.Different Units of measure for planning products need different planning areas. 3.Multiple Currencies in which data is planned .
4.Planning levels i.e. Aggregated Level and Lowest level of detail which affects the performance .
5.Setting in planning area how each Key figure is aggregated and desaggregated
6 and in some cases where storage bucket profile which can be either controlled by maintaining different data views .
Pls reward points if it is helpful..
regds,
Digs

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Hi Ravi,
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Regarding the change of the Area itself, it looks logic that two person cannot change its design at the same time.
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Hi..
Thanx Bindu..
I have actual data for Month days..if i am craeting in same layout it is too large.
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below example for better undersatnding.
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Hi Amrita Goswami
Based on the above post it seems to be your maintain two clients in Dev one is for creation and another is for testing and when it comes to test environment your maintain only one client and maintain the DS in one it wont give any impact..
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> +Cannot replicate DataSource+
> +Errors occurred during post-handling RS_AFTER_IMPORT for ISFS L+
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Thanks
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>
Amrita Goswami wrote:
> Hi All,
> I need help with APO-BI datasource generated from Planning Area.
>
> In the Dev environment we had two clients:
>
> DCLNT020 (Holds APO part) DCLNT010 (Holds BI workbench).
>
> So a datasource was generated from the Planning area in DCLNT020 --> it was replicated in DCLNT010 --> data from Planning Area was extracted to BI cube using this.
>
> Now we transported this datasource to the Test environment which has only one client (TCLNT010). I maintained the Source to target mapping there such that DCLNT020 -- TCLNT010 and DCLNT010 -- TCLNT010.
>
> However the Transport fails and the error message is:
> Cannot replicate DataSource
> Errors occurred during post-handling RS_AFTER_IMPORT for ISFS L
>
> If I go to the Test system and try to generate the transported Datasource directly from the Planning area again, it says this DataSource already exists. However I cannot see this datasource in the system even after replicating and refreshing multiple times.
>
> Please provide your inputs as to what might be wrong and hat I need to do to solve this.
>
> TIA
> Amrita
Edited by: K M R on Feb 6, 2009 12:03 PM
Edited by: K M R on Feb 6, 2009 12:18 PM

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