The Demand Planning Worklist
is a Web Browser application that you can call up in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) for Desktop, or in NWBC for HTML (using transaction NWBC
). You can also call the Demand Planning
Worklist
in the SAP Easy Access
screen.
You use the Demand Planning Worklist
to create, change, delete or search for seasonality groups, events, event types, and event catalogs. You can also make settings that are required for performing ABC/XYZ classification.
The Demand Planning Worklist
is realized using the SAP NetWeaver technology of the personal object worklist (POWL). Within a personal object worklist, you can define and save different queries, rename categories, and so on. For more information, see Changing and Personalizing the Demand Planning Worklist.
You can work with the Demand Planning Worklist
if the following applies:
If you want to call the Demand Planning Worklist
in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) you must have installed SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.5 for Desktop on your desktop. For more information about the NWBC, see SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver
on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/nw703, under
Your user is assigned to one of the following roles:
DP Expert
(SAP_SCM_FCS_PLN_EXP_2
)
DP Administrator
(SAP_SCM_FCS_PLN_ADM_2
)
DP Planner
(SAP_SCM_FCS_PLN_STD_2
)
For more information, see Roles for Demand Planning (DP).
To use this function, you must activate the business function SCM-APO-FCS, Events and Outliers, Causals, ABC/XYZ Classification
(SCM_APO_FORECASTING_1
). For more information, see SCM-APO-FCS,
Events and Outliers, Causals, ABC/XYZ Classification.
The Demand Planning Worklist
contains the following queries:
Seasonality Groups
Using queries of this type, you can create new seasonality groups, and change, delete or search for existing ones. For more information about seasonality groups, see Seasonality Groups.
Event Types
Using queries of this type, you can search for event types, display the details of event types, create new event types, or delete existing ones. You can assign event types to event catalogs, or remove already assigned event types from event catalogs. For more information about event types, see Events, Event Types, and Event Catalogs.
Event Catalogs
Using this query, you can search for event catalogs, display the details of event types, create new event catalogs, or delete existing ones. For more information about event catalogs, see Events, Event Types, and Event Catalogs.
Events
Using this query, you can search for events, and delete existing ones. You should use the deletion for a small number of events only. For more information about mass deletion of events, see Mass Deletion of Events. For more information about events, see Events, Event Types, and Event Catalogs.
ABC/XYZ Configuration
Using queries of this type, you can create, edit or delete ABC analysis profiles, XYZ analysis profiles, and assign composite forecast profiles to the combination of these. For more information, see ABC/XYZ Analysis.
You can display the details of event types, event catalogs, seasonality groups and ABC/XYZ analysis profiles by searching for the object with the help of the search criteria, and clicking the link in the relevant column of the result table.
You can create new event types, event catalogs, seasonality groups and ABC/XYZ analysis profiles by clicking the relevant query, and choosing New
. In the screen that appears, you specify the details of the object you want to create.
You can delete events, event types, event catalogs, seasonality groups and ABC/XYZ analysis profiles directly in the Demand Planning Worklist
. In some cases, for example, when an event type is used by events, or in Customizing settings, you must run the Mass
Deletion of Events
, or the Deletion of Event Types with Dependencies
report. For more information, see Deletion of Events and Event Types.
You can access the Demand Planning Worklist
in one of the following ways:
In the SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC), with your user role.
On the SAP Easy Access
screen, under .