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Purchasing Information System: Standard analyses for long-term planning (vendor preview)

Description

With Release 3.0A three standard analyses for long-term planning in the Purchasing Information System are possible (Material, Vendor, Material group).

These standard analyses are based on planning data of long-term planning, which are updated to the information structure S012.

In long-term planning various planning scenarios can be planned beginning with various independent requirements.

Planning is carried out in order to estimate the effects, for example of material, capacity or service requirements, of the cost center.

With the planned material requirements even purchasing can plan ahead (to possibly negotiate outline agreements with vendors or others). If the material was also assigned a vendor, then the vendors and the key figures, effective order value and order price, which are dependent upon the vendors, can be displayed in the analyses in addition to the material requirement (purchase order quantity).

For the long-term planning analyses no continuous update takes place. In the long-term planning menu you can update the data to the planned orders of long-term planning under the menu sequence Evaluations --> Purch Info System --> Set up data.
Here you can assign a version for the Purchasing Information System to the planned order. The chosen version is then stored in the planning scenario and can be displayed (in the Long-Term Planning menu: Planning scenario --> Display).

If you need only one data selection for certain analysis criteria of a standard analysis you can initiate this by checking the box Dynamic Data Selection on the selection screen of the standard analyses. The data is then directly read from the planned orders. Specify the number of the desired planned scenario on the selection screen.

For long-term analyses, data is updated to the following characteristics and key figures of the information structure S012:

Characteristics:

• Plant

• Vendor (if a vendor has been assigned to the material)

• Purchasing organization (only if the vendor is known)

• Material

• Material group

• Purchasing Info Record

• Country key of the vendor (if the vendor is known)

Key figures:

• Purchase order quantity (planned purchase order quantity in the planned order)

• Effective purchase order value (only if a vendor is known; value is determined from the purchase order price in the info record)

• Purchase order price (quotient from purchase order value and purchase order quantity)

Changes to the interface

You can call up the standard analyses for long-term planning in two ways:

• From the long-term planning menu with the menu sequence Evaluations --> Purch Info System.

• With the menu sequence Logistics --> Logist. controlling --> Purchasing Info Sys. --> Standard analyses --> Long-term planning.