SAP APO Heuristic

[Former Member]

Hi all,

how is possible to limit horizzont plan in SAP APO.

In other word, I have 2 order planidfied, the first for 1 december 2008 and the second for 1 april 2009. I want to modify my heuristic so only the first order is planned and the second order is ignored!!!

Is possible ? How ? there's some function ?

tks a lot,

bye.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You can control it by

planning buckets profile (/SAPAPO/TR30 - Maintain Time Buckets Profile )horizon that you define in planning book (/SAPAPO/SDP8B ).

Or you can control it in Heuristic run

/SAPAPO/SNP01 by SNP Horizon in Days

Explaination :

The horizon specified in this field is used to restrict the planning

horizon you defined in the planning book as the planning buckets

profile. If the horizon specified in this field is shorter than the

planning buckets profile horizon, the system only takes into account the

horizon specified here when planning. If the horizon specified here is

longer than the planning buckets profile horizon, the system only takes

into account the planning buckets profile horizon.

The start of the planning horizon is governed by settings you made in

the planning book.

Manish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Tks for help,

Now i have new information about heuristic.

In fact I must use a custom heuristic, and I have to do the modify inside this heuristic.

So, I have to use function ??

I tried to chanhe the variables: start_horizzont_plan and end_horizzont_plan , but is not run correctly,

Any idea ?

bye

[Former Member]

Hi I know you might have got the answer by now .. but still if you havent

Then Tell me if the following helps..

If ur using PPDS heuristic you can control the planning horizon by the Time profile

which you assign to a heuristic in /SAPAPO/CDPSB0. IN the profile you can mention

what will be your planning start and planning end. Tcode

If you are using SNP heuristic there is a radio button in the heuristic /SAPAPO/SNP01

for planning horizon where in you can mention the horizon up to shich you want to plan.

Regards

Viren

[Former Member]

missing real important answer

[Former Member]

since you want to ignore the order of April 2009 you can set the time bucket profile(Tcode-/SAPAPO/TR30) to say 3 months and run heuristics. This setting will ignore the latter demand and just plan for demand on dec 2008

[Former Member]

You can control planning horizon in APO using planning bucket profile.Yoiu can defines the historical or future time horizon for Demand Planning or Supply Network Planning.You can plan in monthly, weekly, daily or (combined with fiscal year variants) self-defined buckets.

Thanks Sanjay Karkun

[Former Member]

Hi when you run the DRP run ( using program /sapapo/rsnpdrp1), you have a horizon that you can define. If you give it lets say 90 days, it does not plan for the April order as only December order comes into this horizon.

please don't get confused with the SNP production horizon with this horizon.

[Former Member]

Hi Visu,

tks for your help,

I tried the ransaction /n/sapapo/rsnpdrp1, but it does not exist !

bye