Define Distribution Profiles (SAP Library - Entry title was not found)

Define Distribution Profiles

In this activity, you define a so-called "distribution profile", which contains all the necessary control information for top-down manual planning. This includes information on the reference data, the top-down method, the reference value and the desired distribution level.

When you enter your distribution profile in a parameter set, you tell the system to distribute your manually planned data top-down when you save your data.

Activities

To define the distribution profile, you need to specify the following:

1. A reference record type. You can decide whether to use a fixed record type as the reference data or always use the record type of the data being distributed top-down ("*").

2. A reference version. You can decide whether to use a fixed version or the version of the data being distributed ("*") as the reference data.

3. In top-down planning, you can use two different methods of top-down distribution. The method Redistribute aggregates the values already planned at the lower levels and then redistributes them according to the reference values. The method Distribute "nonassigned" only only distribute the amount planned directly at the higher level.
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4. In the value field assignment, you determine the reference values that will be used to distribute the plan data to the distribution level.

Once you have defined the distribution profile, you can specify the distribution level, which is the characteristic or characteristics to which the plan data should be distributed.