Planning Activities 

You create a planning activity in order to carry out mass processing for the following actions:

When copying key figures from one information structure to another, you do not need to create an activity if both of the following apply:

For more information on high-level copying, see Standard Copying Methods.

An activity can comprise one or more actions. For example, you might run a mass processing job that executes several macros at the same time. The sequence in which these actions are processed depends on the sequential numbers you define for them in the activity. The system performs all actions for the first characteristic value before processing the second characteristic value.

Characteristic value

Action

Sales organization NORTH

First macro

 

Second macro

 

Third macro

Sales organization SOUTH

First macro

 

Second macro

 

Third macro

 

Consequently, if you want the system to perform one action for all characteristic values before it starts the next action, you must define separate planning activities.

If you want to carry out several actions of different types, SAP recommends that you define a planning activity and a planning job for each action. This is particularly important because the quantities transferred to Demand Management are those that the system finds in the database. For example, if the key figure you want to transfer changes as the result of a macro, the results of this macro need to have been saved in the database first.

For the following four actions, you create four planning activities:

 

See also:

Creating a Planning Activity