Profile

Use in Heuristic Planning Run

Planning calendar (time streams)

Specifies the planning calendars the system uses to determine when you can produce, transport, and so on.

SNP demand profile (product master)

Specifies how the system calculates demand.

SNP supply profile (product master)

Specifies how the system calculates supply, that is, key figures such as production, and distribution receipts.

SNP rounding profile

Specifies how the system is to round order proposal quantities to create deliverable units.

Lot size profile (product master)

Specifies which lot-sizing procedure is to be used during planning. In this profile, you can also define additional constraints, such as minimum or maximum lot sizes, or a rounding value.

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.

SNP requirements strategy

Specifies how quantities forecasted in Demand Planning are to be produced and how the demand forecast is consumed by sales orders.

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 heuristic.