This function enables you to make use of existing actual sales figures in the planning hierarchy for potential planning. You can use the Copy Management tool to copy actual data from any information structure. The standard system contains a template for copying data from information structure S001. In addition to copying the actual data, the template locates, via the product hierarchy, all competitors and competitive materials that are relevant for the planning hierarchy and enters them in the planning hierarchy.

If a planning object exists in the planning hierarchy for a characteristic in the structure S001, the system copies the information from the characteristics into the planning object. The data from all the remaining characteristics in the information structure S001 is copied into the general planning object.

The copying function is described in the documentation for the IMG activity Copy Management. (Choose Logistics - General ® Logistics Information System ® Logistics Data Warehouse ® Data Basis ® Tools ® Copy Management.)