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 Setting Up Collaboration Scenarios

Use

You can create collaboration partners for the following scenarios:

  • Supply and Demand Planning

(see also: Collaborative Supply and Demand Planning )

  • Transportation Planning

(see also: Collaborative Transportation Planning )

Procedure

You should make the settings as follows depending on the scenario:

Supply and Demand Planning

  1. If you are using workflow, you can set the indicator Sending of emails activated in the Settings: Sending emails area. The user will then be informed when a work item is received.

  2. In the Communication address field, choose the input help to maintain the corresponding address. Maintain the following settings:

    • Internal user

      Select this field if you want to send the notification to a SAPoffice recipient. The relevant user receives the notification in his or her inbox in the SAP APO system. (To access the inbox, choose: Start of the navigation path Office Next navigation step Inbox. End of the navigation path )

      Set the Internal user indicator and enter the user data.

    • Distribution lists

      You can now enter any internal or general distribution lists you have maintained in the SAP APO system. (To maintain distribution lists, in the SAP menu, choose Start of the navigation path Office Next navigation step Administration Next navigation step Distribution Lists End of the navigation path .)

      Set the Distribution lists indicator and enter the distribution lists you want to use.

    • New Internet address

      Select the New Internet address indicator and enter an email address.

  3. If you want to use a standard text in communications, enter a subject and a text in the Advance Notice of Planning Steps area for email.

    Make the following settings in the Settings: Data Transfer area (see also Time Series Data Exchange , if you want to use time series data):

    • Set the Data transfer activated indicator. If you do not set this indicator, the data exchange with the collaboration partner is not active and is therefore not used.

    • In the Communication type field, you define how the time series document is sent. Ensure that you make the following settings for the receiving system (only one exception: The connector; see below).

    • In the Logical system field, select the target system with which you want to communicate.

    • You only require the Recipient for routing rule field if you are working with the connector (see below).

      Using the Connector :

      You have installed both the connector and a suitable service for sending data, and now wish to use these to transfer data. Enter your connector’s logical system in the Logical system field. In the Recipient for routing rule field, enter the service that you previously created for the connectors. The target system is known to the connector due to the settings you have made for the service.

Transportation Planning

  1. If you wish to inform your transportation service providers about planning steps by email, you can select the Sending of emails activated indicator in Settings: Sending of emails .

  2. In the Communication address field, choose the input help to maintain the corresponding address. Maintain the following settings:

    • Internal user

      Select this field if you want to send the notification to a SAPoffice recipient. The relevant user receives the notification in his or her inbox in the SAP APO system. (To access the inbox, choose: Start of the navigation path Office Next navigation step Inbox. End of the navigation path )

      Set the Internal user indicator and enter the user data.

    • Distribution lists

      You can now enter any internal or general distribution lists you have maintained in the SAP APO system. (To maintain distribution lists, in the SAP menu, choose Start of the navigation path Office Next navigation step Administration Next navigation step Distribution Lists End of the navigation path .)

      Set the Distribution lists indicator and enter the distribution lists you want to use.

    • New Internet address

      Select the New Internet address indicator and enter an email address.

  3. If you want to use a standard text for notification of transport RFQs, enter a subject and a text in the Advance Notice of Planning Steps area for email. The system automatically adds a link to the Internet page containing the transport RFQs.

  4. If you want to use a standard text for cancellation of transport RFQs, enter a subject and a text in the Cancellation of Planning Steps area for email. The system automatically adds a list of the transport RFQs to be canceled.

  5. To display the details of the transport RFQs as XML in the Web browser, set the XML Display Activated indicator in the Settings: XML Display area.

  6. In the XSLT field, specify the XSL transformation for the XML style sheet that is to be used for displaying the XML data. XSL transformation /SAPAPO/CLP_PLNSHP_STYLE_001 is provided as a standard XSL transformation. Alternatively, in the URL field you can enter the Internet address of an XML style sheet that is to be used.

    Note Note

    If you are working in a Unicode system, both of these alternatives are supported. If you are not, only the first one is supported.

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