Demand Planning Design

Demand Planning
• Master Data
• Planning Books
• Data Views
• Key Figures
 Master Data
Characteristics used in APO Demand Planning
Number Characteristics Technical Name
1 Customer Country ZCOUNTRY
2 Customer ZCUSTMR
3 Distribution Channel ZDISTCHAN
4 Location ZLOCNO
5 Product ZMATNR
6 Product Category ZPRODCAT
7 Product Type ZPRODTYPE
8 Sales Organization ZSORG
 Characteristics - Example
Characteristic Description
Customer Country Country for the for the particular customer (IL/NL)

Customer Identifies the lower level of the customer hierarchy (Lower than Planning
Group).

Distribution Channel SAP term describing the classification of Bacardi’s distribution channels
(01)
Location Location from which the customer is invoiced/delivered. This represents a
plant in SAP (IL01,IL02)

Product IPC International Product Code, SAP Material Number

Product Category Product category like PL/GTSP

Product Type Finished product or semi finished product(potash/fert)

Sales Organization A selling unit in legal terms structured along geographic or other logical
sub-divisions. (IL/NL)
 Master Data
Characteristics Value Combinations (CVCs)
Planning Book, Data View & Selection Profile
 Planning Books and Data View
Planning Data
Books Views

Demand
CRP_PB 1.MONTHS
Planning

• History Cleaning (1) is the first

activity to complete, followed by the
generation of the statistical forecast (2)
• Once the forecast is generated
adjustments can be done in the
Monthly Adjustment Data View (3)
• Finally, the plan is release to SNP
 Data View

Below mentioned macro are incorporated in the PB

• Cleansed History Y-1,Y-2 &Y-3 and History Y-1,Y-2 & Y-3 are Auxiliary
Key Figures.
• Auxiliary Key Figures are calculated live and for display purposes only;
they are not stored in any database and cannot be used for reporting
History = It will be loaded daily from ECC
History Y-1, Y-2, Y-3 = Invoiced quantities of one year ago, two years
ago, three years ago

Cleansed History = History – Promotions – Sales Events Adjustments

Cleansed History Y-1, Y-2, Y-3 = Cleansed history of one year ago, two
years ago, three years ago

Open Orders = It will be loaded daily from ECC

Statistical Forecast = result of statistical run
Base Forecast = Copy of statistical forecast and/or manual adaption
Promotions = Promotional values if it is there
Sales Events adjustments = manual promo value adjustments by forecasters.
Other Events = Manually enter the value in this key figure if there any such
events.
Constrained Forecast = Base forecast +Promotions + Sales Events Adjustments +
Other Events
Corrected Forecast = correct the forecast
Final forecast = copy the corrected forecast
Forecast adjustments = Adjustments in this KF.
Released forecast = copy the value of
 Data View and Key Figure
History Cleaning Forecast Adjustments Release
Base Forecast
Cleansed History
Promotions
Final Forecast
History Sales Events Adjustments
Forecast Adjustments
Other Events
Promotions

Sales Events Adjustments Constrained Forecast Released Forecast

Corrected Forecast
 Key points
• Sales (Invoiced /delivery Quantity) will be loaded to BI and APO
• Open Orders will be loaded to BI and APO on a daily basis
• New Characteristic Value Combinations (CVC) will be generated in a
weekly basis for the planner’s upload
• The statistical forecast will be generated once a month, with the ability to
make the adjustments to the Final Forecast Figure
• Release to SNP will be done in a Monthly basis.