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 Assigning Demand Categories

Use

During historical data capture , the system assigns a demand category to each sales order item.

Each demand category can have the attribute relevant for forecast . If you want the forecasting service to use the demands of a demand category, you must have marked the demand category as forecast-relevant.

Prerequisites

For the demand categories we defined to be in your system, you have transferred the DataSources 9ADEM_CAT and 9ADEM_CAT_TXT as well as InfoSources 9ADEM_CAT and 9ADEM_CAT_TXT to the Business Intelligence system (BI system) in SAP SCM and activated them. You have transferred the following InfoPackages for these InfoSources:

  • Load Master Data from APO

  • Load Texts for Demand Category from APO

    Note Note

    Each time you change the relevant for forecast indicator of a demand category, you have to reactivate the master data of characteristic 9ADEM_CAT.

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Features

Standard Demand Categories

The following describes the standard demand categories:

  • The system assigns the demand category FDO_DEM to sales orders in the future.

    This demand category is not forecast-relevant.

  • The system assigns demand category ADJ_DEM to demands that historical data maintenance has marked as manually adjusted demands.

    This demand category is forecast-relevant.

  • The system assigns the demand category PROMO_DEM to demands that the planning service “SPP: Data Realignment for Promotion” has marked as promotion demands.

    This demand category is not forecast-relevant.

  • If you have not implemented the Business Add-In (BAdI) BAdI: Determine Demand Category for Historical Data , the system assigns the demand category NONE to demands that do not correspond to any of the above demand categories.

    This demand category is forecast-relevant.

Self-Defined Demand Categories

If you want to work with your own demand categories in addition to the standard demand categories above, you must implement the BAdI BAdI: Determine Demand Category for Historical Data (/SAPAPO/PDEM_DEM_CAT).

For more information about this BAdI, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step BAdIs for Forecasting Next navigation step BAdI: Determine Demand Category for Historical Data End of the navigation path .

Activities

You can see the settings for the standard demand categories in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Forecasting Next navigation step Make General Settings for Demand History End of the navigation path . Choose Predefined Demand Categories at left in the navigation tree. Here you can create additional new demand categories (provided that you have implemented the BAdI described above).