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 Defining Selection Conditions for the DS Planning Board

Use

You invoke the detailed scheduling planning board via a selection screen on which you specify the selection criteria for the objects (resources, products, and orders) that are to be displayed on the board.

Features

The objects for the detailed scheduling planning board are determined from the following data:

Overall Profile:

On the selection screen, enter an overall profile with which all the necessary profiles for the planning board are determined. You can invoke the profiles via Profiles .

Time Period:

The time period is determined via the time profile adopted from the overall profile. For the current session, you can also directly specify a different time profile or change the dates of start/end of display or start/end of planning. However, you cannot change the changes for the time profile.

You define the time profile in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) Next navigation step Detailed Scheduling Next navigation step Maintain Time Profiles. End of the navigation path

Work Area:

You create the work area in Customizing for Detailed Scheduling. There you specify in sets which resources, products and/or orders are to be selected for the work area.

You can specify the work area in the overall profile. It is then adopted from the overall profile and displayed on the initial screen of the detailed scheduling planning board. If you have not specified a work area in the overall profile, specify the work area or the necessary sets of products, resources, or orders directly on the selection screen.

If you do not make any changes on the initial screen, the objects for the detailed scheduling planning board are determined from the sets of the work area.

However, you also have the option of changing the settings from the work area.

  • You can temporarily change the data from the work area for the current invocation on the initial screen (e.g. change sets or add new sets).

  • You can save the changes

    • and overwrite the existing work area

    Note Note

    If you change an existing work area and then save, the system performs a namespace check. This is because you are not allowed to change standard SAP work areas.

    • or create a new work area by assigning a new name to the work area.

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  • You can completeley delete the entry for the work area and the entries for the sets using the Empty Work Area function.

    • You can then specify new selection conditions for the products, resources, or orders, and thus temporarily start the detailed scheduling planning board.

    • You can save the data for the selection conditions in a new work area. To do so, choose Save Work Area Under…

Restrictions for Selection

You have several options for restricting selection on the tab pages.

  • You can specify that only bottleneck resources or finitely planned resources are to be selected.

  • You can specify for resources, products, and/or orders that only the objects specified on relevant tab pages are to be selected and not others that are selected via environment analysis.

    Note Note

    If you select resources and products, for example, and set the Selected Resources indicator for resources, the system selects only those resources that you have specified on the Resource tab page and not those that are additionally determined via the product.

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  • You can filter the selection of the operations and specify via the Filter for Operations indicator that only those operations that were selected via the resources selected via the set are to be displayed on the planning board.

    If you do not set the indicator, for an operation chart, all operations on the transferred resources are transferred to the DS planning board.

For more information on environment analysis, see Selection of the Objects to be Displayed .

Activities

  1. From the SAP Easy Access mySAP Supply Chain Management screen, choose Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Production Planning Next navigation step Interactive Production Planning Next navigation step Detailed Scheduling Planning Table End of the navigation path .

    The selection screen for the DS planning table appears.

  2. Make the necessary settings and check the Profiles .

  3. Enter the work area.

    The sets, created in Customizing for the work area are adopted and displayed.

    • If you want to change a set, enter the new selection criteria that are to apply to the set on the corresponding tab page.

    • If you wish to add a new set, choose Create New Set and enter the selection criteria for the new set.

    • To delete a set, choose Delete Current Set.

    • Choose Empty Work Area to delete all data on the sets.

    • If you want to save changes, choose Save Work Area Under… .

      A dialog box appears, in which you have to specify a work area, a user-specific work area ID, and a language-dependent description for the work area.

      If you do not save the changes, they apply only temporarily for the current invocation of the DS planning board.

      If several sets have been created for a work area, you can scroll between the individual sets using the arrow buttons at the bottom of the tab page.

      If sets exist for objects, the system selects the tab page with a checkmark (tick) .

  4. Choose Execute to invoke the DS planning board.

  5. You also have the possibility to extend the selection in the application, for example, by selecting further products or resources. To do so, choose Extend Selection…. .

    The selection criteria you specified on the initial screen are extended by the additional data. When you create a simulation version, all the sets that exist at the time of saving are used (see Process Simulation Version ).

    Note Note

    The Extend Selection… function is not available for orders.

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See also: Calling Up the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board .