Interfaces for SAP Applications Outside of Planning (SAP Library

Interfaces for SAP Applications Outside of Planning

Use

For many retail companies, planning is the starting point for every business process. To implement planning activated in Merchandise and Assortment Planning in the business process, interfaces are currently available for the following operative processes:

Promotion: Promotions can be created from Merchandise and Assortment Planning using interfaces from this category. Selected sites or site groups, as well as articles and promotional quantities are transferred to the promotion.

Allocation table: Merchandise distributions from Merchandise and Assortment Planning can be set up with the allocation table using interfaces from this category. Selected sites, articles and quantities are transferred to the allocation table.

Listing: You can create listing conditions from Merchandise and Assortment Planning. For selected articles or for all articles of a selected merchandise group, listing can be carried out for the chosen assortments.

These applications can also be carried out in systems other than planning.

Prerequisites

You need to make several Customizing settings to be able to use planning interfaces.

General Settings for Applications

General Customizing settings (for example, allocation type and item category) are required to create an allocation table.

For further information, see Allocation.

General Customizing settings (for example, promotion type and theme) are required to create a promotion.

For further information, see Promotion.

To create listing conditions, assortments must be defined and, if necessary, be assigned to the assortment merchandise groups.

For further information, see Assortments.

General Settings for RFC Destinations

In case the SAP application that provides data for planning is being carried out in a system other than planning, a definition of an RFC destination is needed. For maintenance you use transaction SM59.

Cross-Scenario Customizing

In cross-scenario Customizing for Merchandise and Assortment Planning, the following interfaces must be active:

Defining Planning Interfaces

Defining Grouping Break-downs (only for allocation tables and promotions)

Article and Site Group Dimensions (only for allocation tables and promotions)

Assigning the interface to a planning layout

After defining the interface for a planning step, assign one or more planning layouts to the step. In the network graphic for planning, a vertical line for a planning step indicates that an interface has been assigned to the planning step.

Assigning an interface to a layout is done using the network (transaction WXPN1 or WXPN2 "Manual planning, Detailed view for the planning layout").

For further information see Assigning Interfaces to Layouts.

Activating the planning scenario

You can only access interfaces if the planning scenario in question has the status active/saved.