Settings for External SOP Planning (SAP Library - Supply Chain Planning Interfaces (LO-SCI))

Settings for External SOP Planning

Use

To use the SOP external planning functions, you must maintain the settings in the sttings for External SOP Planning window. This window pops up each time you begin planning externally, and is divided into four planning sections:

control

features

strategy

target

Structure

Planning Control

The following flags can be set under planning control in the Settings for External Planning screen:

The external planning action controls the planning process in the external system.

Single planning: Set flag for single planning, otherwise all the materials and product groups could be affected.

Plan initialization flag: If you set this flag, the entire plan is erased before new values are entered and the plan is created again from scratch. You should only set this flag in case an error has already occurred in the plan and you want to correct it.

Planning Features

In this section of the window, Use Material Availability, you must select one of the following options to indicate if the current material availability status should be transferred from R/3 to the external planning system:

None, if no data should be transferred

Rough-cut, if only data used for rough-cut planning should be transferred

All, if all data should be transferred (for use with BOMs)

Set opening stock levels flag if the current opening stock levels for the planned material product group should be transferred from R/3 to the external planning system.

Planning Strategy:

This section of the window is activated only when planning a disaggregated product group. Select one of the following to indicate planning strategy.

aggregated product group

disaggregated product group

Use the same strategy throughout the entire version of your plan, otherwise materials or product groups may be planned twice. Be careful not to plan production and demand figures for multiple levels of the same product group in a planning version by accident.

Planning Target:

Keep in mind that four lines (sales, production, target stock levels, and target day’s supply) from the standard SOP rough-cut planning profile are always transferred to the external system, but not all four must be used for external planning.

If your planning target is	the external system processes
production figures	sales and production figures
synchronous to sales	only sales figures
target stock level	sales figures and target stock levels
target day’s supply	sales figures and target day’s supply
stock level - zero	sales figures and opening stock levels

If you select stock level - zero, also set ‘Use opening stock levels’ flag