Campaign Functions in the Campaign Transaction

Use

In the campaign transactions, you can display all production campaignsfor a planning versionand its orders in a table. In the processing view, you can do the following:

Create campaigns
Add orders to campaigns
Remove orders from campaigns
Split or merge campaigns
Move orders from one campaign to another

Note

You can plan campaigns in the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board. For more information, see Campaign Functions in the DS Planning Board .

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Prerequisites

Adding orders to campaigns If you want to add orders to a campaign, those are in-house production orders.
Removing orders from campaigns and dissolving campaigns Customizing settings determine whether you can remove an order from a campaign or dissolve a campaign.You can make these settings in Customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling . Choose Global Settings Maintain Global Parameters and Defaults. .For more information, see Campaign Statuses and Campaign Integration Between SAP APO and SAP R/3 .

Features

The left section of the Production Campaign screen displays a list of the campaigns for the planning version. By double-clicking a campaign, you can display the header information and the orders that belong to the campaign in the right section of the screen.

The following functions are available:

Function	Use
Create Campaign	When you choose this function, the system creates an empty campaign. When you choose Save, the campaign is automatically assigned a campaign number. You can also use this function by choosing Production Campaign Create.
Create New Orders and Add to Campaign	When you choose this function, the system creates new orders for the products you specified and adds them to the selected campaign. A dialog box appears in which you specify the following: Products Location Planned Quantity Start Date End Date The system uses the PP strategy instead of the DS strategy for this function. Note If the campaign condition must be considered, the system may not be able to add orders to a campaign without violating the condition. In this case, the system terminates the function. End of the note.
Add Existing Orders to Campaign	When you choose this function, the system displays a list of existing orders for the product, and you can select orders to add them to the campaign. A dialog box appears in which you specify a product. You can move an order from one campaign to another. If you do this, the order may be rescheduled. If not done in alignment with the scheduling profile, the movement may be disallowed. Note If the campaign requirements must be considered, the system may not be able to create a campaign without violating the requirements. In this case, the system terminates the function. You can use the /SAPAPO/PCM05_ADDPOS Business Add-In(BAdI) to execute user-specific checks to decide whether an in-house production order can be added to a campaign.To implement this BAdI, go to Customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) and choose Business Add-In Control Addition of Orders to Production Campaigns . End of the note.
Remove Orders from Campaign	When you choose this function, the system removes the selected orders from the campaign. Even though the orders are not associated with the campaign, they still exist in the system.
Split Campaign	When you choose this function, orders that appear after the selected order are assigned to the new campaign.
Merge Campaigns	To merge two or more campaigns, select the target campaign into which you wish to merge the other campaign, and choose Merge Campaigns.A list of existing campaigns, excluding the target campaign, appears. The selected source campaigns are merged into the target campaign. Campaigns across resources can be merged.
Eliminate Campaign Alerts	If campaigns with errors are created during planning, the system issues alerts. Once campaign alerts exist, the Campaign Alerts tab and the Eliminate Campaign Alerts button are displayed in the campaign transaction. You can display the alert messages on the tab. To eliminate the alerts, choose Eliminate Campaign Alerts . The system uses a correction heuristic to deallocate the orders and cause alerts and tries to reschedule the orders according to the settings in the strategy profile. If rescheduling is not possible, the orders remain deallocated.For more information, see Campaign Alerts .
Position Order at the Beginning of Campaign	To position an order at the beginning of the campaign, select the order and choose Position Order at Beginning . The system reschedules the order so it occurs before the other orders in the campaign.When you use this function, you must specify the order as a setup order. You can only position one order at the beginning.
Undo Positioning	To undo the positioning of an order, select the order and choose Undo Positioning .
Position Order at the End of Campaign	To position an order at the end of the campaign, select the order and choose Position Order at End . The system reschedules the order so that it occurs after the other orders in the campaign. When you use this function, you must specify the order as a clean-out order. You can only position one order at the end.
Convert Campaign(Planned Orders to Process Orders)	To convert the planned orders of a campaign to process orders, select a campaign and choose Edit Convert Production Campaign. .The system sets the conversion indicator for these orders. After integration into theSAPERP system, the planned orders are converted into process orders.
Dissolve Campaign	To remove all orders in a campaign and delete the campaign’s header data, select a campaign and choose Edit Dissolve . Even though the orders were removed from the campaign, they still exist in the system.

Activities

On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Advanced Planning and Optimization Production Planning Interactive Production Planning Production Campaign. The Production Campaign screen appears.
Enter the planning version and choose .
The Change Production Campaign screen appears. On this screen, you can access the above-mentioned functions.