TPVS: Optimization Profiles

Dear Gurus,
I'd like to ask your help again.
I am creating the optimization profiles and facing problems.
I have ciffed about 20.000 customers and 10.000 suppliers to APO and now I need to plan shipments to all these locations.
Scenario:
10 shipping points
Outbound and Inbound deliveries for all shipping points.
All customers are source and target.
Problems:
1) open /SAPAPO/VS_OPT2 is extremely slow. For reading all data take a long time.
2) open /SAPAPO/VS01 is again extremely slow.
How can I solve the performance problem for this situation?
Regards,
Thiago

Hello Thiago,
The performance depends on many things
1) Your server architecture
2) Number of Freight units being read at a time
3) Any split rules getting applied on the freight units (large data will further deteriorate the performance as freight units gets recreated during split)
4) Any incorrectly designed ABAP development (generally freight unit enhancements
I suggest you check following
1) Try disabling Freight unit ABAP development is any to see any performance improvement
2) Change the split size to form less number of freight units
3) Try splitting optimizer profile to limit input freight units being read at a time
Regards
Sandeep Patil

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HI TemYogi,
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1. One PDS each for HALB & FERT level with one resource
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i have two doubts in the TP/VS scenario of SCM 5.0
1. when creating multi stage planning for the shipment, the system gives a error complaining "that the order cannot be delivered"
2. the vehicle combination (MTr) we created where is it used in the system,
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regards,
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Hi Sandeep,
There are various reasons for message 'Order can not be delivered' Following are the possibilities
1) No lane maintained between source & destination location or the lane is not valid
2) The order weight or volume exceeds the vehicle capacity (split required)
3) Incompatibility is maintained in the system
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we're using the SNP optimizer for our mid-term planning.
We have different kind of production resources :
For finished goods we want to limit capacity during optimization run.
For intermediate products we just want to calculate the needed capacity but we do not want to limit it during optimization run.
So I check production capacity in optimizer profile, I check "finite capacity" in resource master for finished goods and uncheck in in resource master for intermediate products.
Still the optimizer is considering intermediate product resource capacity as a constraint.
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Hi Nicolas,
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Hi Sandeep,
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We are working with Characteristic depending planning (CDP) together with setup matrixes based on characteristics.
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the optimizer results are of course linked to the calculation duration. the longer the better the results. you can enter a maximum run time in the optimizer profile.
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