Penalty Cost Group Profile 

Definition

Profile that you can use for optimization-based planning in Supply Network Planning (SNP) to specify that customer demands are to be prioritized.

Use

You can use the penalty cost profile to define that the system first covers demands from penalty cost groups with a higher priority before covering those from penalty cost groups with a lower priority. To define the profiles, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Advanced Planning and Optimization → Supply Network Planning → Environment → Current Settings → Profiles → Define SNP Penalty Cost Group Profiles and then assign them to individual optimization runs in interactive planning or when executing the SNP optimizer in the background.

Structure

The profile consists of the following components:

●      Fields to enter profile names and the corresponding descriptions

●      Table to enter penalty costs with normal priority

●      Table to enter penalty costs with high priority

The profile transaction is intended to allow you to create multiple profiles for multiple consecutive optimization runs. In the table for entering penalty costs with normal priority, you specify in a step-by-step way the penalty cost groups that you want to plan with higher priority in the next run. In the table for entering the penalty costs with high priority, you specify the penalty cost groups that were planned with priority in the previous run and that are to have a higher priority than the groups that you specify under penalty costs with normal priority in the next run. If you choose Generate Profile for Next Opt. Run, the system supports you when you create the next profile, in other words, it copies the penalty cost groups from the previous run to the Penalty Cost Groups with High Priority area.

Integration

You create the penalty cost groups in the application-specific master data and assign them to penalty costs for non-delivery and delay on the SNP 1 tab page of the product master data (see Prerequisites section under Prioritization of Customer Demands and Demands with High Volume).

The SNP optimizer only takes the various penalty cost groups into account if you specify a penalty cost group profile when running the optimizer. Otherwise, the system uses the penalty cost values from the default penalty cost group 0000 for all demands.

If you want to run the SNP optimizer with all the penalty cost groups, you should use a penalty cost group profile in which all the penalty cost groups were defined under penalty cost groups with normal priority.

Example

For example, you define multiple profiles for multiple consecutive optimization runs as follows:

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       1.      You define the first profile for the first optimization run by specifying an interval of penalty cost groups under Penalty Cost Groups with Normal Priority that are to be planned by the optimizer with the highest priority (for example, groups 1-3). You then execute the optimization run. In this run, only these demands are planned.

       2.      You define the second profile for the second optimization run by specifying an interval of penalty cost groups under Penalty Cost Groups with Normal Priority that are to be planned by the optimizer with medium priority (for example, groups 4-6). Under Penalty Cost Groups with High Priority, you specify the penalty cost groups planned previously with high priority (for example, groups 1-3). If you choose Generate Profile for Next Opt. Run, the system copies the first three penalty cost groups to the Penalty Cost Groups with High Priority area.

You then execute the second optimization run. If you have fixed the orders, the demands from the penalty cost groups with high priority are considered during planned, but they are not rescheduled. If you have not fixed the orders, these demands are considered during planning and can be rescheduled, but they are treated with higher priority than the demands from the other penalty cost groups.

       3.      You define the third profile for the third optimization run by specifying an interval of penalty cost groups under Penalty Cost Groups with Normal Priority that are to be planned by the optimizer with low priority (for example, groups 7-9). Under Penalty Cost Groups with High Priority, you specify the penalty cost groups planned previously with high and medium priority (for example, groups 1-6). We recommend that you fix the orders for these penalty cost groups for the next run. You then execute the third optimization run.