What is demand management .

What is demand management , can any body send me configuration document for Demand Management

Rakesh,
I guess you must have overlooked the rules of engagement for this forum. It is customary for questioners to first perform basic research before posting any questions.
First, search in the forums (search box in the upper right of this page). FYI The question you raised has been discussed dozens of times. In addition to forum postings, there are numerous articles available for free in the SAP community network.
Next, check online help. This help is generic, and not generally specific to a particular industry:
http://help.sap.com
Demand Management in the Supply Chain:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/cb/7f93ad43b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
Next, look for generic solutions solutions in Best Practices. Basic index at
http://help.sap.com/saap/sap_bp/BL_IN/html/Content_Library_BL_EN_IN.htm
Next look for industry specific solutions in Best Practices:
http://help.sap.com/content/bestpractices/industry/index.htm
If you are experiencing a problem, or you believe that SAP is not working per the online help, you can then search OSS notes.
http://service.sap.com/notes
Next search in one of the standard online search engines (such as Google).
Only after you have performed all of these tasks, and studied all of the online help that is supplied for free by SAP, then consider posting a question to these forums.
If you are unwilling or unable to perform such research, then you should probably engage a consultant to assist you. All consultants use searches to assist them in designing and executing solutions. If you intend to one day become a consultant, you would be wise to cultivate this skill.
Best Regards & Good luck,
DB49

Similar Messages

  • Best practice for timing of Transfer of forecast to R/3 Demand Management

    Hi All,
    I have APO DP 4.0 with monthly bucket. What is best practice to transfer the planning results to R/3. Meaning how many times we should transfer it?
    And when forecast (PIR) is transfered it replaces the old PIR in demand management for that month. How it will affect the consumption of forecast in R/3? Meaning let us say in same month first time forecast transfered was 100 and by middle of the month 50 has been consumed. Now in same month forecast has been carried out and now 200 has been calculated for the same month and transfered to R/3. Now ideally the remaining quantity to be made should be 150 in R/3. Is it so? Any idea?
    TBR, MM

    Hi Somnath,
    Thanks for the reply. The problem with frequent transfer of forecast to R/3 demand management is that the latest forecast ignores the prior shipments made in that month.
    I will give numeric example:
    Let us say we are in September month and in first week transfered forecast of 100 for one product to demand management. In first two weeks 40 items have been shipped so remaining is 60.
    Now we are in third week and planner realizes that instead of 100 we needed to plan 150 and 150 number is sent to R/3 demand management as a fresh forecast for that month.
    Now for September month we should see net demand as 110 (=150-40). Somehow this is not happening. It shows as a whole 150 net demand. Any idea why it is not happening.
    Thanks and Best Regards, Manoj

  • Error during transfer to demand management in tcode MC88

    Hi Expert,
    I am getting an error 'No data maintained for material F1475078 plant 2000 in transfer period' during processing transfer to demand management in tcode MC88. Anybody know what is the root caused behind?
    I try to search in internet and no solutions have been found so far, I plan to inform basis to restart the SAP server and try whether can solve the problem or not, which is my last option.
    Hope to get a solutions from you guys soon.
    Thanks.

    Hi,
    Refer to the below threads, it should resolve your query, else revert.
    Error "No data maintained for material XXX plant YY in transfer period"
    No data maintained for material MAT1_AJ plant 0001 in transfer period
    Re: SOP transfer to Demand Management
    Regards,
    Vivek

  • Demand management planning strategy

    Hi there,
    I am trying to set up demand management for simple make to stock. I am using standard requirements type LSF which is linked to requirements class 100.(OMP1) The requirements class has a planning indicator (PLNKZ) set to "1" (net requirements planning) in OMPO. This is what I want as we want the warehouse stock to be taken into account when procurement proposals are generated. The planning strategy assigned to the material master has the "1" setting (net requirements planning). However when I run MRP after entering planned independent requirements for LSF (MD61), the purchasing requisitions proposed are just for the independent requirements and ignore warehouse stock. There is a line in the Stock / Requirements list that says "Gross Requirements Planning" Does anyone know where it is picking up "Gross Requirements Planning" instead of Net Requirements Planning (i.e. check what is in stock before creating procurement proposals)
    Any assistance is appreciated.
    thanks
    D

    Hi Suhas,
    I don't want mixed MRP as such but when I cannot get any procurement proposals (requisitions) when the setting is blank. It may be elsewhere that the procurement proposal is - I am still checking.
    However, when I choose "2" for mixed MRP, it does generate requsitions (but gives me the other problem where warehouse stock is not taken into account)
    The requirements class 100 has an entry "1" for planning indicator and "1" for requirements category. All other columns are blank at the moment. I am in the process of experimenting with these next.
    thanks for your help so far.
    Donal

  • Demand Management Through SOP

    Hello Everyone,
    I have a scenario where I receive an 8 week rolling forecast from marketing. This is transferred to production. 2 weeks before actual production the plan is firmed.
    I was hoping to implement this using SOP transfer to demand management. I was also planning to use an MRP type with a planning time fence. But am not exactly sure of the best practice to transfer Rough cut plann data to demand management. Do I directly transfer the Rough cut plan to a "requirements plan" version?
    If not what would be the best possible solution to run SOP?
    Also Please suggest as to any specific configuration settings to be maintained for SOP.
    Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
    Sincerely,
    Aji Kurian Mani

    Hi
    It depends on at which aggregation level you are receiving the Forecast.
    if you are receiving at Plant -Material level. I would advice you to directly upload in to MD61.
    SOP is required, if you need to do any forecasting in SAP.
    or if you need to publish , analsyse the Historical and Forecasting Values at diffrent Org Levels(Plant, cutomer, Material,Sales org....etc)
    using the planning tables you can maintain the Figures at one Level, which gets aggregated automatically.
    Regards
    Ratan

  • Demand Management: single Supplying Plant to multiple Demand Plant

    Dear All,
    I have following scenario to mapp:
    There is one supplying plant (Plant A) and 3 demand plants (Plant B,C,D). Out of 3 demand plant, two plants (Plant C and D) are assigned to different company code then supplying plant while one demand plant (Plant B) is assigned to same company code as of supplying plant (Plant A).
    Material M1 produced at plant will be consumed at plant A to produce material M2 as well as will be supplied to plant B.
    Material M2 produced at plant A will be supplied to all three demand plant B, C and D.
    As plant A and plant are assigned to same company code and are in same campus, materials will be transferred using Transfer Posting (material movement 301).
    Material from plant A will be supplied to transfer to Plant C and plant D using Stock Transfer (movement type 351) or using standard sales cycle.
    Plant A will use total SAP but plant B,C and D don't want to use any planning functionalities of SAP (no MRP run) as they are using i2 product for planning.
    As except plant A no other plant wants to use SAP for planning run, it was suggested to enter demand at Plant A directly for all plants using Demand Management functionalities using different planning versions. But now the issues are:
    A) As demand from each plant (plant C and D) will be entered at Demand Level using different planning version for each demand plant, how to reduce PIR of corresponding demand version for delivery against sales order of corresponding plant.
    B) As materials will be transferred from plant A to plant B using transfer posting and not stock transfer, how to reduce PIR. As PIR is not reduced but stock reduces then system will create new planned order for PIR which already supplied to plant B.
    Any help will be appreciated.
    Thanks and regards,

    Dear Mario,
    Thanks for your reply.
    Can you explain in bit detail what is option 2 and how can I do same in system....
    I tried using Special Procurement Key 40 in demand plant and maintained PIR in demand plant with MD61 which results into Stock Transfer Order created in demand plant. Now the problem is when I issued material from supply plant to demand plant against stock transfer order, system also reduced the PIR for external sources I maintained in supplying plant. Hence there was two reduction in Supply Plant, one for Stock Transfer Order reservation and second for PIR maintained for external demands (other than demand plants).
    How can I stop reduction of PIR maintained for external sources while delivering against stock transfer order?
    Thanks in advance.
    Regards.........

  • SOP and transfer to Demand management for MTO material

    Hi all,
    I have the following situation:
    I have a material, a finished goods product with planning strategy 20 Make to order defined in the material master. I enter a sales forecast for the material in SOP in SAPECC (transaction MC87), works fine.
    But when I try to release the forecast to Demand Management (MC74), I get the following error message: "No requirements type exists for material 110100 1 in plant 2". I can see that planning strategy 20 MTO does not have any requirement type defined.
    But what is the best practice then to forecast on MTO materials (with strategy 20 MTO)?
    What I want to do is to bring down the requirements of the MTO material to Long term planning to get a BOM explosion for the components. I realize that I should not start a production plan for the MTO material, but I want to plan the requirements for components several months ahead.
    What is the best practice? Should I use a different production strategy? Am I missing config or any fundamental thinking here?
    I need to have the material as a MTO strategy, but I want to plan the components.
    Please, give me input on this if you have any solution.
    Regards,
    Lars

    Hi Lars,
    Here's what you need to do:
    1. Instead of pure 20, customize a strategy group that has in it 20 and 10, and attach this strategy group to your material.
    2. In MC74 specify requirements type LSF, demand management version, and make sure to uncheck the "active" box (otherwise you will get requirements in the operative system, and not only in LTP).
    3. Do the transfer, and include the version in a LTP scenario.
    Regards,
    Mario

  • Demand Management based on SOP

    <b>What do you mean by Demand Management based on SOP for Forecasting?</b>

    Hi,
    May be this link will help you to get the information.
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/cb/7f93cc43b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
    Regards,
    Harsh

  • Demand Management Reorganization QN

    Hi
    When we are trying to remove the demand management for one week , the values stick on that week. We have more sales then the requirement for that week.
    Parameters : We have 10 days as the key date. / Backward consumption for 999 days / Planning strategy is 40 .
    QN :  1) What is the intention of 999 days ?
              2) Why reorganization is not deleting for that week?
              3)  Suppose if one week demand is not consumed, then how it can be consumed by the adjacent week.?
    Thanks for reading
    Nick

    Hi
    Go to OMP8 t.code and Define the reorganization interval for your plant.
    Define the reorganization interval
    The reorganization period specifies the key date for the reorganization of the planned independent requirements. The key date is calculated by subtracting the specified time from the current date. The planned independent requirements that lie before the resulting date are reorganized.
    Thanks
    S.Murali

  • SOP - Flexible Planning u2013 Demand Management.

    Hello Gurus
    Can any one guide me  SOP - Long term plannng  / Flexible Planning  - Transfer to demand managment Process
    Thanks
    JJ
    Edited by: JJ_SAP_S on Jul 28, 2008 12:24 AM

    Hi,
    Transferring SOP  to Demand Management :
    Use:
    You can pass on data planned in Flexible Planning or Standard SOP to Demand Management.
    Demand Management determines the requirement dates and requirement quantities for important assemblies and specifies the strategies for planning and producing/procuring finished products. The result of Demand Management is the demand program. The demand program differentiates planned independent requirements and customer independent requirements. It gives the information needed in MPS and MRP for planning at SKU level. The placing of sales orders eventually consumes planned requirements and triggers updating to the Sales Information System. This actual data can then be used as input for future sales planning. For more information, see PP Demand Management.
    Prerequisites:
    The system distributes the data to the appropriate plants in Demand Management on the basis of the quotas you set in Customizing (in Define proportional distribution across plants). You can also make these settings in the Flexible Planning or Standard SOP menu by choosing Settings ® Plant distribution. Plant distribution works as follows:
    If a plant or plants can be found for the material in the planning hierarchy, data is transferred to Demand Management for these plants.
    If no plant can be found in the planning hierarchy, the system checks to see which plants have been maintained for the material in the material master record. It then checks to see whether distribution quotas have been maintained for the material. If quotas have been maintained, the transfer to Demand Management is based on these quotas.
    If no distribution quotas are found for the material, the system checks to see whether you have set generic distribution quotas; that is, distribution quotas that apply to all materials. If so, the transfer to Demand Management is based on these quotas. If generic quotas exist for some but not all plants maintained in the material master record, the system assumes that the distribution quotas of plants without generic quotas are 0.
    If no distribution quotas are found at allu2014neither material-specific nor generic onesu2014, the system splits the data equally among all the plants in the material master record.
    See also:
    Plant Distribution Quotas
    Features
    Independent requirements are created in Demand Management for all materials whose data has been transferred. These independent requirements are created in the base unit of measure of the material. The base unit of measure of the material is not necessarily the same as the base unit of measure of the information structure or the unit in which you planned the material. See also Switching Units in the Planning Table.
    You can transfer SOP data to Demand Management in the following ways:
    Transferring Online, Synchronously and Automatically:
    You set the following information structure parameters in Customizing for Sales & Operations Planning (in Set parameters of info structures and key figures).
    Field name of the key figure whose values are to be transferred
    Planning version from which the data is to be transferred
    Demand version to which the data is to be transferred
    The system creates or overwrites independent requirements in Demand Management every time you save this planning version of the information structure in Flexible Planning.
    Transferring Online, Asynchronously and Manually
    You choose between the following options:
    Transfer of the planning data of all members of a single-level product group from standard SOP (a single-level product group is a product group whose members are materials)
    Transfer of the planning data created for one material from standard SOP
    Transfer of key figure values from an information structure
    You make the following general settings:
    The material or product group whose data you want to be transferred
    The plant of this material or product group
    The planning version of the information structure in which the data is stored
    The dates for which you want the data to be transferred
    Whether you want to check what the data looks like as independent requirements before you transfer it
    The requirements type
    If you do not make an entry, the system sets the requirements type via the MRP group which is maintained in the material master record.
    The version of the demand program to which you want the data to be transferred
    Whether this version of the demand program is active and therefore relevant to MRP
    Depending on the option you chose in step 1, you set one of the following strategies.
    Transferring Planning Data from a Single-Level Product Group:
    You transfer the sales plans of the materials direct.
    You transfer the sales plans of the materials as proportions of their owner product group (using the proportional factors defined in the product group master record).
    You transfer the production plans of the materials direct.
    You transfer the production plans of the materials as proportions of their owner product group (using the proportional factors defined in the product group master record).
    Transferring Planning Data of One Material from Standard SOP:
    You transfer the sales plan of the material direct
    You transfer the sales plan of the material as a proportion of the product group of which it is a member (using the proportional factor defined in the product group master record)
    You transfer the production plan of the material direct
    You transfer the production plan of the material as a proportion of the product group of which it is a member (using the proportional factor defined in the product group master record)
    Transferring Key Figure Data of One Material from Flexible Planning
    The information structure from which you want the key figure data to be transferred
    The key figure whose values you want to be transferred
    This key figure must be a quantity key figure.
    For more details go to the following link :
    http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/a5/63238b43a211d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
    Hope this helps.
    Reward if useful.
    Regards,
    Tejas
    Hope this helps.

  • How requirements from SOP are transferred to Demand Management

    How requirements from SOP are transferred to Demand Management? what is transaction code for it ?
    Madan S. Rode

    Hi,
    In mc82 view, after checking the capacity situation(By choosing view, capacity situation, show) you can check the load for that particular resource. Once the load is 100 %. You can save it.
    Use mc78, copy the inactive version no to active no. (a00).
    Then in mc82 view, go to Extras,
    transfer to demand management,
    Choose the strategy as LSF/VSF... according to your scenario & then click transfer.
    Regards,
    Senthilkumar SD

  • Demand management -reg

    Hi,
    I am facing one problem in demand management.
    I have created PIR in MD61 with VSF requirement type (eg.500 nos)  and run MRP for that material. System has created Planned order for 400 nos. Because there was manual reservation for 100 nos for which planned was there already. But I want the system to create planned for 500 nos by ignoring manual reseravtion.So in demand management I changed the consumption indicator "1"( consider only customer requirements). Eventhough system consumes the reservation and creates planned for 400 nos only.
    Can you please tell me what could be the issue.
    Regards
    Karthikeyan.

    I think u need to use indicator -
       (no allocation)     ... please try..
    Because I ve read in a thread that...
    If PIR is  100 no
    Sales order of qty 10 no
    Material reservation created manually for 5 no
    Dependent requirements from released production order for 50 no.
    If consumption indicators 1(consume only with customer requirements) – then you will see in MD04 PIR = 100-10 = 90
    if 2(only consume reservation, dependent requirements) , then PIR = 100-5-55 = 40
    3(consume customer reqts, reservation, dependent requirements = 100-10-5-50 = 30
    karthick
    Edited by: karthick PP on Apr 27, 2009 10:51 AM

  • Demand Management Versions and Reference

    Dear Gurus,
    To create new versions in Demand Management, is to go via SPRO path--> Production --> Production Planning --> Demand Management --> Define Version Numbers
    There is another setting which want to understand.
    SPRO path--> Production --> Production Planning --> Demand Management --> Allocate version and for auto spilitting to reference
    What is reference we are talking about? From where is this reference for eg 1 - Reqm Plan has come from?
    Is version maintained here is standard or you can change it?
    If we can change which version is to be taken for each reference?
    Pl. reply.
    Srini

    Hi Srini
    The first sap path is to create version no which you can use to create PIR in demand management like version 01, 02, AA, AB.
    The 2nd path is about splitting of demand management PIR into lower period say year to week, week to day during copy of version and here you assign one version number which will be used during copy.Reference is from where you are getting demand.

  • PP and I2 DM(Demand Manager) integration

    Hi PP guys:
    As we known,PP is for production and planning in the whole SCM.but in this field ,there is another tool I2-DM(demand manager).is there someone having the experience on DM and SAP-PP integration. we can talk via MSN and share the experince and resoure each other.
    MSN:[email protected]

    Dear,
    What data you are getting into SAP from I2?

  • SAP Demand Management installation - VAT option?

    Hi,
    I am installing SAP Demand Management 6.4 SP12 for a Swedish client. During the installation of Process Servers using SAPInst, the first screen itself gives me an option for VAT (Value Added Tax). I have to select Yes or No but I am not sure how to make this decision.
    It is true that Sweden has the concept of VAT everywhere, but I am not sure if that is relevant in the context of this installation.
    Do I need to select VAT Yes or No? We have sent the question to SAP but as usual the response takes a long time. No one at customer side also knows what to do. And I want to be correct the first time rather than scrapping the whole thing later because of wrong choices.
    Please help me in understanding this option of VAT and what I can do here.
    Thanks,
    Shitij

    Selected the Yes option because I figured out that this option can be changed anytime later also.
    Regards,
    Shitij

Maybe you are looking for