OTB: Planning and Monitoring OTB

Which Tool to Use?

There are two tools you can use for OTB:

· Planning tables (in flexible planning)

· OTB standard analyses in RIS (Retail Information System)

During the planning phase you use the planning tables. OTB will be derived automatically from the planning data.

Once the planning phase is completed, you can use either the planning tables or the standard analysis to observe how the OTB changes. Both tools calculate OTB using the same formula, and both include planned and actual values.

If you want to look at only those cases where OTB falls below a predefined level, you use the exception reporting feature of the Early Warning System.

The technical aspects of implementing standard analysis and flexible planning can be rather complicated. The remaining topics in this documentation will be much more understandable if you have first read or are familiar with the following:

Planning Data

You enter planning data using your own planning type, which you have copied from one of the planning types delivered with R/3.

Actual Data

SAP Retail provides a standard analysis for OTB, based on info structure S110. This analysis shows all the planned and actual data which go into determining the calculation of OTB.