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 Transfer of the Demand Plan to R/3 Demand Management

Purpose

This process transfers the demand plan to Demand Management in SAP R/3, and creates planned independent requirements there.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the correct Plug-In version.

  • You have set up your products in SAP APO by choosing Start of the navigation path Navigation Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Product End of the navigation path from the SAP APO menu tree.

  • You have set up your locations in SAP APO by choosing Start of the navigation path Navigation Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Location End of the navigation path from the SAP APO menu tree.

  • You have defined the split of product demand to locations in one of two possible ways. For more information, see Location Split .

  • If necessary, you have defined a product split in SAP APO. For more information, see Product Split .

  • You have created a data view for this task in SAP APO. The use of a separate data view to transfer a demand plan to SAP R/3 has performance benefits. The data view contains the following:

    • A future planning horizon only (no historical horizon unless you want to transfer the historical horizon too)

    • A planning buckets profile with one periodicity only (if it contains more than one periodicity, the job is aborted with an error)

    • Only the key figure(s) that you want to transfer to SAP R/3

    • No actual rows (unless you want to transfer them to SAP R/3)

  • You have set the planning strategy of each material in SAP R/3.

Process

Create a transfer profile .

Create an activity .

Create a planning job .

Schedule the planning job .

Review the job results in the job log , and take any necessary action.

For more information about the job log, see Management of Job Logs .

Results

In SAP R/3 Demand Management, planned independent requirements are created in the same buckets as those of the data view on which the mass processing job is based.