Planning
Book
Definition
A planning book determines the content and layout of the interactive planning screen.
Use
You use planning books in Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Demand Planning (DP). They allow you to design the screen to suit individual users’ planning tasks. A planning book is based on a planning area. There is no restriction on the number of planning books you can have for a planning area.
Within a planning book, you can also define one or more views. Views allow you, for instance, to tailor the information displayed to various users (for example, displaying different key figures for different users).
Supply Network Planning comes with the following standard planning books:
● 9ASNP94 for traditional Supply Network Planning
● 9ASOP for Sales & Operations Planning (SOP)
● 9ADRP for Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
● 9AVMI for Vendor-Managed Inventory
● 9ASA for scheduling agreement processing
● 9ASNPAGGR for aggregated planning and planning with aggregated resources
● 9ASNP_PS for planning that takes into account product interchangeability
● 9ATSOPT for optimization-based planning that takes into account time-based constraints
● 9ASNP_SSP for safety stock planning
● 9ADRP_FSS for planning with the deployment heuristic with consideration of demands in the source location
● 9ASNP_SHLF for planning that takes into account shelf life data
We recommend that you use the standard planning books for Supply Network Planning. If you need to create additional planning books, you should use standard books as templates. To create your own planning books, from the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Supply Network Planning → Planning → Interactive Supply Network Planning. Then choose the Design icon and Create new planning book.
If you create additional planning books, you can define the following elements:
● Characteristics
● Key figures and other rows
● Functions and applications that can be accessed directly from this planning book
● User-specific views for the planning book, including initial column, number of grids and accessibility of the view for other users (there is no limit on the number of views you can have within one planning book.)
You can use context menus in interactive design mode to configure these and additional elements of the interactive planning screen (such as the position of columns and rows, the use of colors and icons in rows, the visibility or not of the rows, the appearance of the graphic, and macros).
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