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 Maintain Demand Planning Times Series based on Times Series Bulk Notification

 

To replicate the time series data.

Technical Data

Entity Type

Service Operation

Software Component Version

RTLDDF 200

Release State

Released

Technical Name

DemandPlanningTimeSeriesBulkNotification_In

Namespace

http://sap.com/xi/RTLDMF/Global2

Category

SAP A2A

Direction

Inbound

Mode

Asynchronous

Idempotency

Not applicable

Change/Update Behavior

Type 1

P2P Communication Enabled

True

Business Context and Use

The Maintain Demand Planning Times Series based on Times Series Bulk Notification service operation is used to receive the time series data.

Features

The inbound operation creates, updates, and deletes the data.

The main nodes for the sales data are as follows:

  • External Location Identifier

  • External Product Identifier

  • Offer Identifier

  • Sending System Identifier

  • Sales Quantity

    For actual sales, this is a positive number (mandatory). For returns, this is a negative number.

  • Sales Quantity Unit of Measure

    Specifies the selling unit of measure (UoM) of the supplied quantity.

  • Validity Time and Granularity

    Specifies the time granularity of the sales data. This granularity can be either D (daily) or W (weekly).

  • Sales Price excluding Tax

    Specifies the monetary value of the sale without tax.

  • Sales Price including Tax

    Specifies the monetary value of the sale with tax.

  • Transaction Count

    Specifies the number of transactions for a given time.

  • Squared Unit Count

    Specifies the square of the summation of units.

  • Cubic Unit Count

    Specifies the cube of the sum of units.

The main nodes for the store traffic data are as follows:

  • External Location Identifier

  • Sending System Identifier

  • Date

    Contains the date for the Count element.

  • Count

    Defines the number of transactions that had a sales quantity different from zero.

The main nodes for the generic data (consumption data) are as follows:

  • External Location Identifier

  • External Product Identifier

  • Sending System Identifier

  • Key Figure Parameter

    Describes the generic time series (such as consumption versus goods issued).

  • Quantity

    The sales quantity can only be a positive number.

  • Quantity Unit of Measure

    The unit of measure for the supplied quantity.

  • Validity Time and Granularity

Message Types

  • Demand Planning Time Series Bulk Notification

Error Handling

The Maintain Demand Planning Times Series based on Times Series Bulk Notification operation supports the Forward Error Handling (FEH) concept.

Notes on SAP Implementation

Demand Data Foundation (DDF) can receive the following time series data:

  • Sales

  • Store traffic

  • Generic (consumption)

The Interface Workbench receives all data coming through an Extensible Markup Language (XML) message. The /DMF/TS_GENERIC table is relevant for this process.

Enhancements

The /DMF/SE_SORT_FND_DMPLTSBLKNO Business Add-In (BAdI) is available for this operation. A default implementation is not provided.