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 Execution of “Generate Phase-Out Profile” Planning Service

Purpose

In the Generate Phase-Out Profile planning service the system creates a phase-out profile for the selected location products.

Process

  1. The system checks all location products and excludes location products that meet the following criteria from planning:

    • You have not assigned a phase-out group to the location product.

    • You have not defined a production end date for the location product.

    • The product only has historical data for less than a year after the planning date.

    • The location was the predecessor or successor product of another product in a supersession process after the production end date.

    • You have considered the location product in a sales promotion after the production end date, and as a result have specified a promotion start and a promotion end date.

  2. The system creates a phase-out profile and in doing so considers the following values that you have specified in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning Next navigation step Forecasting Next navigation step Define Phase-Out Group End of the navigation path .

    • Length of the phase-out profile

    • Minimum number of location products that must be available to generate a phase-out profile

    • Minimum percentage that the phase-out profile cannot fall below

      If the phase-out forecast calculates values that lie below this percentage, the system takes the percentage you defined as these values.

    Example Example

    In the Minimum Value (%) field you have specified the value 10 as the percentage that the system cannot fall below. For the seventh year in the future, the system calculates a percentage of five percent. In this case, the system takes the 10 percent that you defined in the phase-out profile for all years from the seventh.

    End of the example.