Planning Vers.-Depend. and Planning Vers.-Independ. Master Data

The following sections contain information on which master data is planning version-dependent and which is planning version-independent.

Global Product Master

The data in the global product master is independent of a planning version.

Location

By choosing a planning version and the change mode on the initial screen for location master data maintenance, you can process all fields that are dependent on the planning version.

For more information, see Displaying, Creating and Changing a Location.

Location Product

By choosing a planning version ( Start of the navigation path Extras Next navigation step Choose Planning Version End of the navigation path ) and the change mode on the initial screen of the location-specific product master, you can process all fields that are dependent on the planning version.

If you do not specify a planning version on the initial screen, the values you specified in the planning version-dependent fields are automatically assigned to planning version 000 (this applies in any case to planning version-independent fields).

If you change the planning version-dependent data in the location product master without explicitly specifying a planning version, you also change the planning version-dependent values of version 000 and all versions for which no planning version-dependent data has previously been defined.

Only the location products for which you have explicitly created planning version-dependent data use separate data and not the planning version-dependent data of planning version 000.

For more information, see Maintaining Location-Dependent Product Master Data.

Production Process Model (PPM)

Time-dependent parameters of a PPM are dependent on the planning version. You can define time-dependent parameters in the PPM for the following data:

Scrap of an activity
The duration of an activity defined at the mode
The capacity requirement of an activity defined at the resource
The material consumption defined at an alternative component

If you define one of these parameters dependent on time, you can specify a planning version for which this setting is valid.

If you specify a planning version, the system only uses this setting for the specified planning version.
If you copy this planning version, the system also copies the time-dependent parameters. If you change the parameters in the original planning version later, this has no effect on the parameters of the copy.
If you do not enter a planning version, the system uses this setting for all planning versions for which you have not defined any other time-dependent parameters. If you change this parameter, this also affects all planning versions for which you have not defined any individual settings.

If you copy a planning version for which no planning version-dependent data and no time-dependent parameters have been defined, the copy also uses this information.

For more information, see PPM Plan.

For more information on PPM variants based on planning version-specific and time-dependent parameters, see Simulating PPM Variants.

Resource

All the data of a resource is dependent on the planning version. Specific data for the resource, such as the resource type, cannot be changed; some data can only be changed depending on the status of the activities scheduled on the resource.

If you assign a resource to a model, the system automatically assigns it to all planning versions of this model. If you create a new planning version for this model later, the system also automatically assigns the resource to the new planning version.

If you change the data for a resource, you only change it in the planning version-specific copy; in other words, if necessary, you have to change the data in all planning version-dependent copies of the resource.

Note Note

On the initial screen of the master data for the resources, you can copy the resource data of all planning versions of a model by choosing Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Copy Resources End of the navigation path .

End of the note.

The following table shows behavior of the planning version-dependent resource master data when a planning version is copied:

Source version	Copy
Planning version 000 without separate planning version-dependent data	Not possible
Planning version 000 with separate planning version-dependent data including capacity variant data; uses the data of the shift definition	Separate planning version dependent data, separate variant data; uses the data of the shift definition
Planning version XYZ without separate, planning version-dependent data	Not possible
Planning version XYZ with separate planning version-dependent data including capacity variant data; uses the data of the shift definition	Separate planning version-dependent data, separate variant data; uses the data of the shift definition as in the source version

For more information, see Creating and Changing Resources.

Quota Arrangement

All quota arrangements can be defined as dependent on the planning version. However, you can also define planning version-independent quota arrangements. Planning version-independent data is used in all quota arrangements for which there is no planning version-dependent data.

If you wish to explicitly assign quota arrangement data to planning version 000, you must specify the planning version 000 while in quota arrangement maintenance mode (On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Master Data Quota Arrangement Quota Arrangement End of the navigation path ). If you change this data, the change has no effect on other planning versions.

Changes to the planning version-independent quota arrangement data affect all planning versions for which no planning version-dependent data has been defined.

For more information, see Validity of Quota Arrangements.

Additional Planning Version-Dependent Master Data Fields

The following master data have additional version-dependent fields:

Location
Location product
Transportation lane
Production process model (PPM)

To use these master data fields as planning version-dependent fields, you must activate the business function SCM-APO, Version Simulation (SCM_APO_VERSION_SIM).

For more information, see Additional Planning Version-Dependent Fields of APO Master Data.