Demand Release and Forecast Consumption Consumption in APO SNP

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SAP APO Demand Planning & Supply Network Planning. For more information, visit the Supplier Relationship Management homepage.

Summary
Objective of this document is to demonstrate the configuration steps for Demand release from Demand Planning to Supply Network Planning using mass job. Forecast consumption and required setting for Planing with Final Assmebly is also touched to elaborate on forecast consumption logic. Author: Jayant M Deulgaonkar

Company: Accenture Created on: 15 March, 2011

Author Bio
The author is a senior SAP APO consultant with over 11 years of industry experience. He has good expertise in the areas of APO DP, SNP and TPVS. He also has a background in R/3 Sales & Distribution and domain experience in the field of Logistics and warehousing.

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Table of Content
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Pre Requisites .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Configuration Steps: ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Step 1: ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Step 2: ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 Step 3: ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Step 4: ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Step 5: ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Step 6: ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Step 7: ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 Steps for Customizing ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Step 1: Maintain Distribution Function .......................................................................................................... 14 Step 2: Maintain Period Split Profile ............................................................................................................. 15 Step 3: Maintain Daily Bucket Profile ............................................................................................................ 15 Step 4: Create Release Profile ..................................................................................................................... 15 Step 5: Create Activity for mass processing ................................................................................................. 17 Step 6: Create Backgroud job ....................................................................................................................... 18 Step 7: Demand Deletion .............................................................................................................................. 19 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 21 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 22

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Introduction
Demand planning module is used for collaborative demand planning so as to predict future demand. This is done in time series environment and on a aggregated time bucket. When it comes to use these predicted demands for Supply Network planning it is important to have demands in Order series with details level time bucket. This enables using these orders for available tools e.g. CTM, Network Optimiser, Heuristics, and Deployment etc.

Pre Requisites
APO Demand planning being used with Forecast Driven Distribution Model. Business requirement is to consume Forecast once orders are received against the forecast and want to plan for forecast errors if any.

The entries for the requirements type and the version in the transfer profile relate to the settings in R/3 The transactions in the R/3 customising for these entities are Requirements Strategy - OPPS Requirements Type - OMP1 Requirements Class - OMPO Version - OMP2 The transferred independent requirements - MD63 A prerequisite for the data transfer from APO to R/3 is that the distribution definitions for the publication type planned independent requirements with the transaction /SAPAPO/CP1 You should maintain these as per requirement. Usually following are maintained. 021 330 340 External Procurement Shipment Delivery

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Configuration Steps:
APO relies on R3 for all master data and customising to get transferred to APO through CIF. You need to set up below R3 Masters so as to forecast consumption flow from R3 to APO. 1 In material master (MRP 3) Strategy Group Planning with Final Assembly need to be defined.

In R3 Material Master Strategy (Planning Strategy) contains the information of requirement class. Requirement class is referred as check mode in APO (This customisation will flow to APO through CIF this when you create integration model for ATP Customisation) For consumption logic to work Requirement strategy should be available in Material master. Consumption mode with consumption period will define consumption periodicity. Consumption group will define rules for consumption.

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Step 1: Production > Material Requirement Planning > Master Data > Independent Requirement Parameters > Planning Strategy > Define Strategy

Select Strategy 40

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Display Strategy Refer Requirement class and Requirement type of Customer requirement.

Corresponding Strategy in APO The requirements strategy is assigned to the product in the product master. Following is the mapping of strategy in R3 and APO.

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To display Strategy in APO go to Transaction: S_AP9_75000142

Here category for forecast is indicative and all the categories with category group 3 Forecast are considered for consumption. In forecast consumption you use the category group to determine which kind of orders, for example sales orders or planned orders, can consume the forecast. Requirement Class: Sales and distribution Basic Functions Availability Check and transfer of Requirements > Transfer Requirements > Define requirement classes

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Select Requirement Class

Display details

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This Requirement class in APO is referred as Check Mode

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Step 2: Use Own Filter Object Type for Requirements Reduction Transaction: CFC9 (R3) This indicator controls which filter object type is evaluated in integration models for the transfer of data for requirements reduction. If the indicator is not set, the filtering takes place on the basis of active integration models for material master data. The requirements reduction is transferred to SAP APO if active integration models exist for material master data with a suitable material-plant combination. In this case, the requirements reduction is transferred for all suitable material-plant combinations. If you set this indicator, you can create integration models specifically for the Requirements Reduction filter object type (type T_FCC). The filtering takes place on the basis of active integration models for requirements reduction. In this case, you can control in greater detail for which material-plant combinations a requirements reduction should be transferred to SAP APO.

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Step 3: Independent Requirement Reduction for Movement Type Transaction : OMJJ Requirements reduction upon goods movements indicates that the system is to check whether a requirement is to be partially offset or reduced to zero for the material document item in question at the time a goods receipt is entered.

Step 4: Integration Model for ATP Customising Transaction:CFM1 to create integration model CFM2 to activate integration model Use required filters and select ATP Customizing to transfer settings to APO

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Step 5: Define field catalogue for Consumption group definition Transaction : /n/SAPCND/AO01

You can add new entries with available list. If you want to add more fields in the structure you need to append structure /SAPAPO/KOMGO

Step 6: Define consumption group Transaction: /N/SAPAPO/CSP1 Select DP characteristics and relevant R3 field from Catalogue.

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Step 7: Material master maintenance Maintain Strategy Group and Consumption mode and Consumption period in MRP 3 view.

These settings will be available in APO after integration model is activated for the product location combination. You can assign consumption group in APO.

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Once Masters are set as per requirement and demand is finalised in Demand Planning forecast can be release to APO. You can execute the release from Demand Planning (DP) to Supply Network Planning (SNP) in two different ways. 1.) Transaction /SAPAPO/MC90 or report /SAPAPO/RTSOUTPUT_FCST. Application: Only for a few product location combinations, because otherwise memory problems (liveCache Heap memory) can occur. You should not use this transaction or this report for mass release. 2.) Release within the DP mass processing Application: For Mass processing using background jobs For demand release using mass processing you need to define release profile. Release profile will contain information on planning area, version, period split and characteristics. Usually demand planning is done on aggregated level where as distribution planning happens on day level. It is important to have correct split is done for this transformation form aggregated level to day level. If you need a specific distribution pattern for this split you can use Distribution function for period split profile. For equal distribution you can use daily bucket profile instead of period split profile. You do not use both forecast will be released on the first day of the bucket used in DP planning book for release.

Steps for Customizing

Step 1: Maintain Distribution Function Transaction: /SAPAPO/DFCT - Maintain Distribution Function

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Step 2: Maintain Period Split Profile Transaction: /SAPAPO/SDP_SPLIT - Maintain Period Split Profile

Step 3: Maintain Daily Bucket Profile Transaction : /SAPAPO/TR30 - Maintain Time Buckets Profile for Demand Plng and Supply Network Plng Maintain no of days to split forecast and periodicity T (Day).

Step 4: Create Release Profile Transaction : /SAPAPO/MC8S - Maintain Release Profiles Planning Area Select DP planning area from which forecast is to be released Key Figure Select Key figure in the planning area from which forecast is to be released Target Planning Version Select planning version to which you want to release forecast. You can use simulation versions if required. Period Split Select if you want to use distribution function Day Buckets Select if you do not have specific distribution function requirement but want to distribute demand equally in days. Category Select forecast category (usually FA or FC are used but you can define customised categories with category group 3 Forecast) Product Characteristics Select DP characteristics used for Product Location Characteristics Select DP Characteristics used for Location Consumption Group If you need to consume forecast based on additional descriptive characteristics use defined consumption group for the planning area.

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Requirements Strategy -Determines how quantities forecasted in APO Demand Planning are produced, and how the demand forecast is consumed with sales orders. SAP delivers the requirements strategies listed below. You can also define your own strategies, see Define Requirements Strategy. In this example it will be 20 - Planning with final assembly Create New Orders If selected while releasing forecast existing forecast will not get overwritten instead new order will get created. Usually overwrite logic is used and hence this is not selected.

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Step 5: Create Activity for mass processing Transaction : /SAPAPO/MC8T - Define Activities for Mass Processing

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Step 6: Create Backgroud job Transaction : /SAPAPO/MC8D - Create Demand Planning in the Background Select planning book and data view which was selected for creating activity. Select activity and selection. You can use parallel processing profile for better performance. Aggregation level can be selected only if you do not use consumption group. In case of consumption group, aggregation will get selected automatically based on consumption group definition.

Schedule created background job with Transaction code: /SAPAPO/MC8G Once demand is released you can view details of released demands in Product view (/SAPAPO/RRP3)

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In details there are 5 quantities under Forecast (Detail) tab. 1. Quantity Planned Quantity released form Demand Planning 2. Withdrawal Quantity Quantity of forecast consumed by Closed sales order for which PGI is already done and neither sales order nor delivery is available in APO. 3. Allocation Quantity Quantity of forecast allocated for open sales order / open delivery 4. Remaining Planned If forecast is > Sales order this value gets calculated automatically. Remaining planned = Quantity planned (Withdrawal quantity + Allocation Quantity) 5. Shortage If forecast is < Sales order this value gets calculated. Shortage = (Allocation Qty + Withdrawal Qty) Quantity Planned

Step 7: Demand Deletion If your demand planning master data (CVCs) are changing and getting deleted. Then before demand release you should flush old demands so that only valid demands will be available in the system. This can be done with two ways 1. Using Transaction /N/SAPAPO/RLCDEL This transaction is used to delete orders in mass. You use select either category (FA, FC etc) or a key figure used for forecast (e.g. 9ADFCST). If you delete forecast using this transaction all the quantities related to forecast including withdrawal quantity will get deleted and thus you will loose forecast consumption quantity with past sales. This transaction gives better performance for mass deletion

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2. Using transaction /N/SAPAPO/MD74 This transaction is primarily designed to delete forecast while retaining withdrawal and allocation qty intact. Performance is not as good as /N/SAPAPO/RLCDEL but should not be a bottleneck for moderate size planning environment

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Related Content
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/e6/ FAQ: Background jobs in Demand Planning Consulting note: Release from DP to SNP For more information, visit the Supplier Relationship Management homepage.

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