Planning book design for Demand planning

Dear Experts,
I am in the phase of design planning book
for example
20 Finished products
20 Semi finished products
5 planners
100 customer
Forecast is done on the basis of product, customer , plant and storage location
For the above scenario how many planning book i need to create , Please advise
Thanks in advance
Regards
Raj
Note:
For promotion planning do i need to create seperated planning book or just use the normal book for forecast
Edited by: Rajkumar Raju on Mar 16, 2010 11:35 AM

Hi rajkumar,
I am hoping that you are asking this question from an authorisation point of view and perfomanc point of view.
From authorisation point view, if you want to restrict the access of diferent stakeholders, you can create different selection ids and restrict the authorisation at that level.
for example, a different selection id could be created for the sales force and restrict their access at their usrd id/selection id level. similary for a business manger, access could be restrcited at a higher level.
from a performance perspective, SAP best practices suggets that you should create a different planning book for batch jobs.
laslty, depending upon your business scenario, you may use the standard planning book provided by SAP for promotion planning.
Let me know if this helps.

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