The automatic proposal determination function is based on an assignment strategy, in which you specify which criteria (in terms of working time, requirement interval and employee selection) is to be used to assign employees to requirements.

You can either use the strategy provided in the standard SAP system, or define your own, user-specific strategy.

In the IMG for Shift Planning, you can maintain the strategies for automatic proposal determination, as well as set the default strategies for automatic proposal determination.

In the Maintain Strategies for Automatic Proposal Determination activity, you specify which strategies the system uses in the Determine assignment proposal function to find the employees required to cover a personnel requirement.

By defining a strategy, you determine:

• The maximum number of runs that the system can perform
• Which options for selecting employees are valid for each run
• The sequence in which the runs are to be performed

The system runs the strategy once for each requirement and day, irrespective of the degree of coverage attained as a result of automatic assignment.

You can define strategies in the IMG for Shift Planning, under Info Columns and Proposal Determination ® Set Up Automatic Proposal Determination ® Maintain Strategies for Automatic Proposal Determination.

The standard strategy is SAP-1 (entry in table T77S0, group PEINS, semantic abbreviation RULE).