Purpose

The periodic publication of planning results can be chosen if data that has been generated or changed in SAP APO does not have to be transferred immediately to SAP R/3. This is often the case for Supply Network Planning (SNP). Periodic publication is the default setting in SNP Customizing.

Transferring the data at a later point in time (for example, using background processing that is scheduled to run at night) has performance benefits because it evens out the load on the CIF interface.

Process Flow

In comparison to the direct publication of planning results, periodic publication records and collects change pointers (see figure below). You can start the processing of change pointers manually or schedule this to take place as background processing. Fore more information, see Processing Change Pointers .

The change pointers are deleted when they have been processed.

For more information, see Direct Publication of Planning Results and Publication of Planning Results .