Period Units 

Use

The period unit or units of the planning table is defined by the storage periodicity of the information structure. You set this storage periodicity in Customizing (in Set parameters for info structures and key figures). The period unit of the standard SOP information structure (S076) is posting period.

The start of the planning horizon and the number of plannable periods are defined in the planning type.

You can move around the planning horizon in the planning table using the scroll buttons on the bottom right.

Information structures that use level-by-level planning do not require a storage periodicity to be defined in Customizing, although it is possible to define one. If an information structure uses level-by-level planning and has no storage periodicity, you call it up in the period unit in which it was last saved.

In consistent planning, you can plan using more than one period indicator. For these period indicators, you generate a technical period that is saved in the form of a fiscal year variant.

The period indicator on which you base the forecast can be different than the storage periodicity. You maintain the forecast period in the Period ind. field of the forecast profile.

Activities

The following example explains how to plan in weeks and months.

  1. Set the following information structure parameters for this function in Set parameters of info structures and key figures:

    2. a) Press F4 on the Planning periods field. (The Storage periodicity field is not ready for input.)

    b) In the planning periods box on the next screen, enter 'W' and 'M' in the PI column.

    c) Enter a name for your technical fiscal year variant. This name should consist of two letters.

    d) Enter a generation horizon. This horizon should encompass the planning horizon—both past and future periods—that you wish to plan with this information structure.

    e) Save these settings.

    A technical fiscal year variant is automatically generated. You return to the information structure parameters screen. The name of your technical fiscal year variant (see step 1c) appears as the fiscal year variant. A 'G' appears in the Planning periods field. This 'G' stands for generated.

    Exactly which weeks and which months are displayed in the planning table depends on the time buckets grid. A time buckets grid specifies the number and sequence of the time buckets that you wish to plan. You define and assign a time buckets grid in the planning type.

  2. Create a time buckets grid in your planning type as follows:
    1. Create the following time buckets grid for future periods:
      2.

      Selection

      Sequence

      Number

      Remaining

      Weeks

      1

      4

      Months

      2

      11

      x

       

    2. Create the following time buckets grid for historical periods:

Selection

Sequence

Number

Remaining

Weeks

1

4

Months

2

11

x

 

The planning table looks like this:

11 months

4 weeks

|

4 weeks

11 months

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Historical periods

  

|

Future periods

  

 

You can only create a time buckets grid if your technical fiscal year variant contains more than one period indicator.

You cannot use "T" (days) in a time buckets grid.

 

See also:

Changing the Period Unit in the Planning Table