Functions for Production Campaign Planning

Use

You can plan campaigns in SAP APO as follows:

Automatically
- By using campaign optimization, in which the system creates campaigns
  The system tries to find an optimum number and sequence of orders in a campaign, as well as the sequence between the campaigns, while taking setup and storage costs into account.
  For more information, see Campaign Optimization .
- By processing the campaign heuristics in sequence
  For more information, see Heuristics for Campaign Planning .
Manually

You can use the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board or campaign transaction to determine the number and sequence of orders in a campaign, as well as the sequence between the campaigns.

Integration

To processSAPAPOcampaigns in theSAPERP system, you must set up the required technical integration betweenSAPAPOand theSAPERP system.For more information, see Integration of SAP APO and SAP R/3 and the SAP Library of SAP ERP under Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Production Planning and Control Production Planning – Process Industries Production Campaign End of the navigation path .

Features

You can plan campaigns in the system in the following areas:

Production planning run To plan production campaigns in the production planning run, you can use campaign optimization and campaign heuristics .
For more information, see Production Planning Run .
In the DS planning board
You can plan campaigns using graphics. In the resource chart, campaigns are displayed in Gantt charts as bars above the operation bars for the resource, and span the operations of the campaign. You can use drag and drop to move the campaign bars on the time axis. The planning functions of the Detailed Scheduling planning board (DS planning board) help you to schedule campaigns. You can also execute automatic campaign optimization.
For more information, see Campaign Functions in the DS Planning Board .
Campaign transaction This transaction does not use graphics, but it provides an overview of the campaigns, orders, and dates in a table.
For more information, see Campaign Functions in the Campaign Transaction .

Campaign Functions

Function	Available in
Define/Create Campaign	Detailed Scheduling Planning Board and campaign transaction
Create and Add New Orders
Add Existing Orders to Campaign (for moving orders to other campaigns)
Split Campaign
Merge Campaigns
Remove Orders from Campaign
Dissolve Campaign
Display Production Campaign Header Data
Display all Orders for the same Campaign
Display Networked Campaigns	Detailed Scheduling Planning Board
Campaign Optimization	Detailed Scheduling Planning Board and production planning run
Campaign Heuristics
Eliminate Campaign Alerts	Campaign transaction
Convert Campaign(Planned Orders to Process Orders)
Position Order at the Beginning of Campaign
Position Order at the End of Campaign
Undo Positioning
Execute Comparison/Reconciliation (for production campaigns)	CIF Comparison/ Reconciliation of Transaction Data transaction
Display External Campaign Number from SAP ERP	Detailed Scheduling Planning Board , Process Order View and Product View transactions
Select All Orders of Campaign in Receipts View and Conversion of Planned Orders	Receipts View and Mass Conversion transaction

Activities

You should plan campaigns such that manual and automatic planning complement each other. You can start with campaign optimization. If the requirement situation changes, you can correct the planning manually. You can later execute campaign optimization again. You can alternate these steps multiple times to get a satisfactory result.