SAP MAP - Best Choices for Planning Technical Basis

Hello, experts!
For today there are 3 variants of MAP planning scenaries implementation:
1.Planning and reporting via MAP Business content for BI Integrated planning
2.Planning and reporting via MAP Business content for BPS
3.Planning in ECC based MAP functionality and reporting in BI
Whether there are recommendations which alternative is more suitable, pro/cons?
It is possible to use standard MAP workflow scenaries with planning in BPS or BI Integrated planning ?
Regards,
Dmitry.

1.     BW Integrated Planning is the new SAP MAP Planning Solution. There is a also BI Content with predefined templates on BI Content 7.04. The next BI Content 7.05 will include many more out-of-the-box Templates.
a.     7.04 includes predefined templates for Strategic-, Store- and Merchandise Plan for RMA and CMA. Additionally there is a basic template to do seasonal Assortment Planning on Assortment/Style/Color/Size level in MAP and send it to the Operational Assortment Planning and Control in ECC. But no templates for non-seasonal Assortment Planning.
i.     http://help.sap.com/SCENARIOS_BUS2007/helpdata/EN/b4/982c4142aef623e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
ii.     http://help.sap.com/SCENARIOS_BUS2008/helpdata/EN/72/164a4135fff66fe10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
b.     7.05 is the enhancement of 7.04 by non-seasonal Assortment Planning and size-curves and images for seasonal Assortment Planning.
c.     http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Retail/SAP%20Merchandising%20and%20Assortment%20Planning%20%28SAP%20MAP%29
d.     https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/CK/Implementation%20Guide%20Merchandise%20and%20Assortment%20Planning%20Integration
e.     RampUp Knowledge Transfer for internal use https://websmp105.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700003584172005E
2.     BW BPS is our old Planning Platform. Don´t use it anymore. There's also no migration option to BW Integrated Planning.
3.     The (very!) old ERP-based MAP functionality is not supported anymore, thus don't use it. All development goes into the above mentioned (1.) SAP MAP solution based on BW Integrated Planning.
In connection with Integrated Planning, Operational Assortment Planning and Control (OAPC) is the ECC application to plan your seasonal Assortment. The OAPC will get input from SAP MAP either on level Assortment or on level Assortment/Style/Color/Size. Depends on the customer requirements.
a.     http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/en/7f/2d6241bb688047e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
Hope this helps!

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