Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning

 

This virtual data model provides the prerequisites for using SAP HANA to analyze data from Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP) in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). Some of the views in this virtual data model contain master data and others contain planning data (transaction data). The views containing planning data are generated in the package sap.hba.scm-apo-go.REPLICATIONMODELNAME, where REPLICATIONMODELNAME is the name of the replication model used. The reuse views containing master data are not generated but static.

You can copy the query views or you can create your own query views using the reuse views in this virtual data model.

This virtual data model provides the prerequisites for answering the following business questions:

  • How many items have been sold in a given time horizon?

  • What is the ratio of historical demand to forecasted demand?

  • What is the projected future service level?

  • What is the future resource utilization per bucket?

Depending on the planning books used for generating the query views, this virtual data model may also provide the prerequisites for answering other business questions. For example, these questions may be the following:

  • In which countries was sales demand the highest last year?

  • What are the top selling products in a particular region?

  • In which week of a year a particular product is selling the best?

  • What is the expected demand for a particular product?

  • In which countries the projected service level is the worst?

  • Which are my products with the highest supply shortage?

  • In which week of a year we have the biggest production capacity issues?

  • What is the expected days’ supply for my product groups?

  • How does the quality of my forecast change over time?

Structure

To support the analysis possibilities listed above, the structure of this view hierarchy contains the following groupings of views:

  • Demand Plan

    This group of views consists of the following reuse and query views:

    Description

    Technical Name

    Demand Plan

    DemandPlan

    Demand Plan Query

    DemandPlanQuery

    Business Objects

    These views are built on the following business objects:

    • Demand Plan (SCM-APO-FCS)

    • Location

    • Product

    • Historical Demand

    • Forecasted Demand

    Measures and Attributes

    Measures and attributes used in the Demand Plan (DemandPlan) reuse view support the analysis of forecasted and historical demand. You can also add your own attributes and measures to this view in the Replication Model Maintenance (/SAPAPO/REPL_MODEL) and Replication Model Maintenance (Maintenance View) (/SAPAPO/REPL_MOD_VIE) applications.

    Used Tables and Views

    The Demand Plan (DemandPlan) and Demand Plan Query (DemandPlanQuery) views select data from generated tables.

  • Supply Network Plan

    This group of views consists of the following reuse and query views:

    Description

    Technical Name

    Supply Network Plan

    SupplyNetworkPlan

    Supply Network Plan Query

    SupplyNetworkPlanQuery

    Business Objects

    These views are built on the following business objects:

    • Supply Network Plan (SCM-APO-SNP)

    • Location

    • Product

    • Supply

    • Stock

    Measures and Attributes

    Measures and attributes used in the Supply Network Plan (SupplyNetworkPlan) reuse view support the analysis of demanded and available stock and supply. You can also add your own attributes and measures to this view in the Replication Model Maintenance (/SAPAPO/REPL_MODEL) or Replication Model Maintenance (Maintenance View)(/SAPAPO/REPL_MOD_VIE) applications.

    Used Tables and Views

    The Supply Network Plan Query (SupplyNetworkPlanQuery) view selects data from generated tables and from the master data tables replicated from SAP APO.

  • Resource Capacity Plan

    This group of views consists of the following reuse and query views:

    Description

    Technical Name

    Resource Capacity Plan

    ResourceCapacityPlan

    Resource Consumption Plan

    ResourceConsumptionPlan

    Resource Consumption Plan Query

    ResourceConsumptionPlanQuery

    Resource Capacity Consumption Plan Query

    ResourceCapCnsmpnPlanQuery

    Business Objects

    These views are built on the following business objects:

    • Resource Capacity Plan

    • Resource

    • Product

    • Location

    Measures and Attributes

    Some important measures and attributes used in these views are the following:

    • Resource Capacity Plan (ResourceCapacityPlan)

      The view supports the analysis of the consumed and available resource capacity per resource.

    • Resource Consumption Plan (ResourceConsumptionPlan)

      The view supports the analysis of the consumed and available resource capacity per resource and product.

    You can also add your own attributes and measures to this view in the Replication Model Maintenance (/SAPAPO/REPL_MODEL) or Replication Model Maintenance (Maintenance View)(/SAPAPO/REPL_MOD_VIE) applications.

    Used Tables and Views

    The views select data from generated tables and from the master data tables replicated from SAP APO.

  • Master Data

    This group of views consists of the following reuse views:

    Description

    Technical Name

    Address

    Address

    Country

    Country

    Location

    Location

    Location Product

    LocationProduct

    Planner

    Planner

    Planning Model

    PlanningModel

    Planning Version

    PlanningVersion

    Procurement Type

    ProcurementType

    Product

    Product

    Region

    Region

    Resource

    Resource

    Resource Category

    ResourceCapacity

    Resource Type

    ResourceType

    SAPClient

    SAPClient

    Unit of Measure

    UnitOfMeasure

    Unit of Measure Name

    UnitOfMeasureName

    Used Tables and Views

    The most important master data tables used in this virtual data model are the following:

    • /sapapo/matkey

    • /sapapo/matloc

    • /sapapo/matmod

    • /sapapo/mattxt

    • /sapapo/pegkey

    • /sapapo/resdim

    • /sapapo/res_txt

    • /sapapo/res_head

More Information

For more information about working with the views, see the Administrator’s Guide for SAP HANA Live 1.0 on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/hbaInformation published on SAP site, under Start of the navigation path Master, Installation, Security, Configuration, and Operations Information Next navigation step Administrator’s Guide End of the navigation path.

For more information about replication model maintenance, see SAP Library for SAP SCM Server on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/scmserverInformation published on SAP site. Choose a release and then Application Help. In SAP Library, choose Start of the navigation path SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Next navigation step APO Analytics Next navigation step Replication of Planning Data Next navigation step Replication Model Maintenance End of the navigation path.