Sequence of Requests Within a Realignment Run (SAP Library

Sequence of Requests Within a Realignment Run

The requests in a realignment run are applied to each profitability segment in the order in which they appear in the hierarchy. The changes made to a profitability segment during a run can be largely dependent on the order in which the requests are carried out, as you can see in the following example.

Example

A realignment run "New form of manufacture 10/1/97" contains the following realignment requests.

Realignment request "Product 1": selection criterion: product = 1; conversion rule: set form of manufacture to fixed value "PURCH" and leave all other characteristic values unchanged.
Realignment request "Form of manufacture "PURCH" to "EXTERN"": selection criterion: form of manufacture = "PURCH"; conversion rule: set form of manufacture to fixed value "EXTERN" and leave all other characteristic values unchanged.

After this realignment run is executed, the profitability segment with the characteristic values "Product 1", "Form of manufacture INTERN" will have the values "Product 1", "Form of manufacture EXTERN". (The first request changes the form of manufacture to "PURCH", the second from "PURCH" to "EXTERN".)

If the order of these requests were reversed, the form of manufacture would have been set to "PURCH".

However, such effects can only occur when characteristic values are overwritten by fixed values. If you only want to repeat derivation or not change all characteristics, the order of the requests is irrelevant (provided that characteristic derivation has been customized in a way that successive derivations do not repeatedly change the profitability segment).