Select  Advanced Planning and Optimization Supply Network Planning Planning Interactive Supply Network Planning from the SAP Easy Acces s screen.The Planning Book: SNP Interactive Planning / SNP Plan (Live) screen appears.

Choose to display the shuffler. You then choose the location products you want to be used in the optimization run from here.

From the dropdown box in the first sort statement ( Show... ), choose: APO location product . You can also choose specific location products to be used by choosing the icon to the right of this dropdown box. In addition, you can perform a consistency check for this data by choosing Check Entry .

If required, limit the range of location products to be planned by making selections from the dropdown boxes under the second sort statement ( that fulfill the following conditions... ). For example, you can choose different planning versions.

Choose . The location products are now displayed in the selector.

Double-click on a location product to display the current situation in the workspace to the right of the selector, or place your cursor on a location product and choose the Load data icon.

Select the location products to be planned. You can choose either all the location products displayed (choose Select all ), or particular location products by placing your cursor on a location product, clicking and holding down the left mouse button while dragging the cursor until all desired location products have been highlighted (alternatively, use the Shift and Arrow keys on your keyboard).

Choose Optimizer , to call the optimizer. The SNP Optimizer window appears.

The Optimizer icon is displayed on the interactive desktop automatically if you are using the standard SNP planning book SNP94. However, If you create your own planning books and wish to use the optimizer in interactive planning, you must specify that you want this icon to be displayed. You do this in the Design mode of the interactive planning desktop.

On the Optimization tab page in the SNP Optimizer window, you choose one of your predefined SNP optimizer profiles, cost profiles, optimization bound profiles, and penalty cost group profiles. By choosing the icons , , and , you branch to the maintenance screens for the profiles to make changes to existing profiles, for example.

Choose to start the optimization run.

The current solution resulting costs determined by the optimizer are displayed in the Current Solution area of the Optimization tab page. The individual steps of the optimization process are displayed in the Status area during the optimization run and information about intermediary solutions is displayed in the Solution Run area. In addition to this, messages about the current optimization run are displayed in the Messages area.

You can also display the products that were selected for this optimization run by choosing . Choose to branch to the Supply Network Planning: Optimizer log file screen . From there, you can decide which type/form of log to display (the message log, input log, or results in a text file for example.)

Choose the Solutions tab page to view information about the previous optimization runs. If you select a solution in the right-hand screen area, the data corresponding to that solution appears in the left-hand area.

Choose the Messages tab page to view messages about the previous optimization runs. If you select an optimization run in the left-hand screen area, the messages corresponding to that optimization run appear in the right-hand area.