Updating Standard Analyses for Long-Term Planning: Purchasing Information System 

The data basis for the standard analyses in long-term-planning is provided by data which is updated from long-term planning to a planning version of information structure S012. Updating does not take place continually and must therefore be initialized via a report that you can find using the long-term planning menu. This report can also be carried out as a background job.

To initialize the updating for the analyses in long-term planning, proceed as follows:

  1. From the R/3 system menu, select Logistics ® Production ® Master planning ® Long-term planning.

    2. The long-term planning menu appears.

  2. Select Evaluations ® Purch. Info System ® Set up data.

    3. The selection screen for the update report appears.

  3. In the field Planning scenario, specify the planning scenario you require from long-term planning. In the field Version, enter the name of the version to which the data is to be saved in the Purchasing information structure S012. Each planning scenario is assigned exactly one version.

    4. In the standard analyses for long-term planning, you can calculate the order value in four different ways when evaluating a planning scenario:

    – Calculation using info record

    If a vendor is assigned to the planned order, and if an info record exists, then the order value is calculated using the purchasing info record price. In the case of consignment materials, which do not have a info record price, the system takes the future consignment valuation price into account for the calculation, depending upon the final date of the planned order. If these conditions are not satisfied, no calculation is carried out.

    – Calculation using the valuation price

    If the standard price is specified in the material master, then the system takes the standard price or the future standard price into account when calculating the order value. If the movable average price is specified as the price control, then this price is used for calculating the order value.

    – Calculation using the new planned price from product costing

    – Calculation using the planned price 1, 2, or 3 from product costing

    Only one order value can be saved at a time in a version of the information structure S012. If you need to find out how to evaluate a planning scenario for different types of order value calculation and how to compare the results, refer to Standard Analyses for Long-term Planning: Comparing Order Values

     

  4. Select Program ® Execute, or if you want to use background processing mode, select Program ® Exec. in background

If you want to perform an ad hoc standard analysis for long-term planning, and do not want to initialize an update, select the field Ad-hoc evaluation from the selection screen of the standard analysis in question. The system then reads the data directly from the planned orders.