In the initial stages of planning the demand program, you enter large requirement quantities (for example, annual or monthly quantities from the material forecast or from SOP) which you refine to a detailed period split. You can split these initial quantities manually or automatically. In this process, you can use periods from the Gregorian calendar, or periods of your choice using the PPC planning calendar.

You can create planned independent requirements as one quantity and split them over a number of periods. You can choose between the following periods:

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• For each accounting period
• Planning calendar period (only possible on schedule line screen)

In the initial stages of planning the demand program, you enter large requirement quantities (for example, annual or monthly quantities from the material forecast or from SOP) which you refine to a detailed period split. You can split these initial quantities manually or automatically. In this process, you can use periods from the Gregorian calendar, or periods of your choice using the PPC planning calendar.