Running the
Optimizer from the Interactive Planning Desktop
Use
The optimizer proposes a plan for multiple products simultaneously based on the minimum procurement costs, storage costs, transportation costs, and production costs without overloading resources.
Prerequisites
●
You have set up the
planning area and planning book
●
Master Data Setup for the
Optimizer
● You have maintained optimization profiles
●
Release of the Demand Plan to
SNP
Procedure
...
1. Select Advanced Planning and Optimization → Supply Network Planning → Planning → Interactive Supply Network Planning from the SAP Easy Access screen. The Planning Book: SNP Interactive Planning / SNP Plan (Live) screen appears.
2.
Choose 
to display the shuffler.You
then choose the location products you want to be used in the optimization run
from here.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5.
Choose 
. The location products are now displayed in the
selector.
6. 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.
7. 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).
8.
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.
9.
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.
10.
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.)
11. 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.
12. 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.
See also:
Application Logs for Optimizers