SNP optimizer profile

In this profile, you choose which optimization method you want to use during the optimization run (linear optimization or discrete optimization) and which constraints you want the system to take into account.

SNP cost profile

In this profile, you assign a weighting to different cost elements in the objective function (thus determining how the costs relate to one another).

We recommend that you only change the standard settings for test purposes when modeling. To avoid undesired side-effects, you should not change the default setting of 1.0 in the production system if possible. This setting corresponds to the costs entered in cost maintenance.

SNP lot size profile (transportation lanes)

In this profile, you define minimum and maximum lot sizes for the shipment. You then specify this profile for one specific product in the Product-Specific Means of Transport section of the transportation lane. You can thus define minimum and maximum transportation lot sizes for specific products.

If you wish to make shipments in integer multiples of a transportation lot size only, you can also define the transportation lot size as a rounding value in this profile.

To enable the optimizer to take into account the minimum lot sizes and rounding values defined, you have to choose the discrete optimization method in the SNP optimizer profile.

SNP optimization bound profile

If you want to perform a new planning run after an SNP optimizer planning run, you use this profile to improve planning stability by restricting possible decision variable deviations from the previous optimization plan. For example, you can permit smaller deviations at the start of the planning horizon and then increase these towards the end of the horizon to avoid too many last-minute planning changes.

Your new plan does not have to be based on the directly preceding optimization run, you can also choose earlier runs.

SNP penalty cost group profile

You use this profile to define that certain customer demands are to be prioritized during optimization. For more information, see Prioritization of Customer Demands and Demands with High Volume.

SNP priority profile

You can use the SNP priority profile to define priorities for product decomposition and resource decomposition , that is, you can change the sequence in which the optimizer groups and plans products and resources in partial problems. For more information, see Decomposition.

SNP planning profile

In this profile, you can make basic settings for the various SNP planning procedures, such as heuristic, optimizer, deployment heuristic, deployment optimizer, and Transport Load Builder (TLB).

The SNP planning profile that you activate in the SNP Customizing under Maintain Global SNP Settings applies globally for all SNP planning procedures. For some planning procedures, you can overwrite the settings of the active profile by entering another SNP planning profile during execution of planning in the background.

Parallel processing profile

You use this profile to define how background jobs are divided in parallel processes. You can specify the number of concurrent parallel processes, the number of objects per processing block, and the server group. In each case, you define the profile for one specific application function, such as the SNP optimizer.