Maintenance of PP/DS Settings (SAP Library - SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO))

Maintenance of PP/DS Settings

Use

You can change and save the following settings for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) for each user at any time before or during interactive planning:

Propagation range

The propagation range allows you to specify the resources and products for which changes can be made in planning either interactively or in the production planning run.

The resources of the propagation range are relevant for resource-related planning. You can only change planning for resources of the propagation range. This means, for example, you can only schedule or reschedule operations at these resources.
The products of the propagation range are relevant for product-related planning. You can only make changes in planning for products of the propagation range. This means, for example, you can only create orders for these products.

If you create an order for a product that is in the propagation range but which contains components that are not in the propagation range, the system does not create any orders for these components. Instead, it writes a planning file entry for them.

If you do not interactively set a propagation range, the system uses the propagation range you have defined in Customizing for Supply Chain Planning under Maintain Global Parameters and Defaults.

The propagation range is not relevant for the following processes:

Transfer of orders to PP/DS from an OLTP system or from Supply Network Planning
Capable-To-Promise (CTP)

Strategy profile

You use the strategy profile to control how orders are scheduled or rescheduled. In the strategy profile you can define, for example, whether forward or backward scheduling is to be used and whether you want to schedule finitely or infinitely. For more information, see Detailed Scheduling and Detailed Scheduling Strategy.

If you do not interactively set a strategy profile on the planning screen, the system uses the strategy profile that you have entered in Customizing for Supply Chain Planning under Maintain Global Parameters and Defaults.

Alert profile

You use the alert profile to specify the problems and non-typical situations in planning for which alerts are to be displayed in the Alert Monitor. For more information, see Display of Alerts.

Time zone

You can define the time zone that is to be used for time entries.

Layout

You can make settings for the presentation of and navigation between planning data in the product view and in the order processing view.

You make the basic Customizing settings for PP/DS in Customizing for Supply Chain Planning under Maintain Global Parameters and Defaults and in Customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling. For more information, see the Implementation Guides (IMG) for Supply Chain Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.
You can create and change propagation ranges and strategy profiles in both Customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling and from the SAP Easy Access menu by choosing Supply Chain Planning ® Production Planning ® Environment ® Current Settings.