Maintenance of Time-Dependent Location Product Hierarchy

Time-dependent location product hierarchies consist of time-dependent location products, which are location products that are extended with a validity period. Time-dependent location products are dependent master data objects. They can only be used in time-dependent location product hierarchies. You can use time-dependent location product hierarchies to model product structures that change over time, for example, in Demand Planning.

Example Example

The following examples illustrate the use of time-dependent location product hierarchies:

You sell a shirt in two sleeve lengths: short and long. If you plan to sell more short-sleeved shirts in the spring, you can increase its quota for the spring period. When you release the spring forecast for the shirt from Demand Planning to Supply Network Planning, the system takes this quota into account to split the forecasts into short- and long-sleeved shirts.
You plan to introduce a sleeveless shirt for summer. In this case, you can add the sleeveless shirt to the hierarchy for the summer period.

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To use this function, you must activate the business function SCM-APO, Aggregated Planning in DP, SNP and CTM (SCM_APO_HIER_AGG_PLAN).

Features

You can manually create time-dependent location product hierarchies. To do this, you have to create a validity period and assign it to a location product.

Note Note

You can use the Reading of Time-Dependent Location Product Hierarchies Business Add-In (BAdI), if you want to use a logic for time-dependent location product hierarchies that is different from the one used in the standard system.

For more information, see Customizing for SCM Basis under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Hierarchy BAdI: Reading of Time-Dependent Location Product Hierarchies End of the navigation path .

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Note Note

If you assign multiple hierarchies with the same hierarchy structure type to the same model, you have to implement the BAdI: Hierarchy Change to specify which hierarchy you want to use.

For more information, see Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Demand Planning (DP) Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) Release SNP/DP BAdI: Hierarchy Change End of the navigation path

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Maintaining Validity Periods

You can create, display, and change validity periods. A validity period can have multiple occurrences. Each occurrence is valid for a date interval. You can also select validity periods for later deletion with the Reorganize Time-Dependent Location Products function.

Example Example

If you want to maintain a validity period such as Easter that occurs every year, you enter the first validity period with occurrence 1. You then enter the following Easter with occurrence 2, and so forth.

End of the example.

Maintaining Time-Dependent Location Products

You can assign a validity period to a location product, display the time-dependent settings of a location product, and change the time-dependent settings of a location product.

Reorganizing Time-Dependent Location Products

You can do the following:

You can delete validity periods that you have selected for deletion in the Maintain Validity Periods function.
You can delete the assignment between a validity period and a location product if the time-dependent location product is not used in a time-dependent location product hierarchy.

Activities

To maintain validity periods, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Hierarchy Maintain Validity Periods for Time-Dependent Location Products End of the navigation path .

To maintain time-dependent location products, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Hierarchy Maintain Time-Dependent Location Products End of the navigation path .

To reorganize time-dependent location products, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path SCM Basis Next navigation step Master Data Hierarchy Reorganize Time-Dependent Location Products End of the navigation path .