Examples of How to Access the Planning Table in Flexible Planning 

How to Access Consistent Planning: Example 1

You create a plan based on a planning type that has been defined by your company. Consistent planning has been set as the planning method for the information structure on which this planning type is based. The Extended selection indicator has been set in this planning type. You specify the characteristic values as follows:

Characteristic

Characteristic values

Region

Canada, USA

Plant

Toronto, Montreal, Chicago

Material

  

 

This means that you are planning all materials produced at plants Toronto, Montreal, and Chicago in the regions Canada and USA. These materials are at the bottom level of the planning hierarchy you created for this information structure.

How to Access Consistent Planning: Example 2

You create a plan based on a planning type which has been defined by your company. Consistent planning has been set as the planning method of the information structure on which this planning type is based. You specify the following characteristic value:

Characteristic

Characteristic value

Sales organization

  

Distribution channel

  

Division

01

Material

  

 

This means you are planning all the materials in division 01 as well as all sold-to parties, sales organizations, and distribution channels to which division 01 belongs, that is, all characteristic value combinations which include division 01. The characteristic values are all defined in the planning hierarchy which has been created for this information structure.

How to Access Consistent Planning: Example 3

You create a planning version based on a self-defined information structure for which consistent planning has been defined. You specify the characteristic values as follows:

Characteristic

Characteristic values

Purchasing organization

  

Material group

Fluids, solids

Material

  

Plant

Pennsylvania

 

This means that you plan all the materials in material groups FLUIDS and SOLIDS which are managed in plant PENNSYLVANIA. Moreover, all the key figures in your information structure appear in the planning table.

How to Access Level-By-Level Planning

You create a plan based on a planning type which has been defined by your company. Level-by-level planning has been set as the planning method of the information structure on which this planning type is based. You specify the characteristic values as follows:

Characteristic

Characteristic value

Sales organization

0001

Distribution channel

  

Division

  

Material

  

 

This means that you are planning sales organization 0001. In the planning table, you can disaggregate manually to distribution channel level. The distribution channels in this sales organization are defined in the planning hierarchy which has been created for this information structure. You will plan the divisions and the materials separately.

How to Access Delta Planning

You create a plan based on standard information structure S001 for which delta planning is defined. You specify the characteristic values as follows:

Characteristic

Characteristic values

Sold-to party

1

Sales organization

0001

Distribution channel

01

Division

  

Material

  

 

This means you are planning all sales made to sold-to party 1 through distribution channel 01 in sales organization 0001. Any planning data that has already been maintained for these characteristic values and this version at division or material level is aggregated and displayed when you enter the planning table.