aggregates in demand planning

[Former Member]

HI guru's

Do we use aggregates on MPO's in demand planning, is there any difference which used in bw,

thanks in advance

regards

ravi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes we use aggregate in DP.

Suppose you are having Product Group -- X

With Product X1, X2, X3

Your forecast data for month 102008 for product X1 is 200

X2 300

X3 400

Then forecast data for product group X is 102008 is 900 for a month.

Aggregation means addition at group level

Please check below thread where we discussed more about Aggregate in DP.

Manish

[Former Member]

Hi,

The aggregates in APO are not the same as those in the Business Information Warehouse (BW), but they have the same purpose: to speed up data access and therefore increase performance. SAP recommends that you use aggregates in Demand Planning.

An APO aggregate contains a subset of the characteristics in the master planning object structure. The creation and use of aggregates is optional. The data is always saved on the lowest level of detail. If aggregates exist, the system saves the planning data on the defined aggregate levels as well as on the lowest level of detail. The data is saved twice, but consistently; that is, the sum of the details equals the aggregate value.

SAP recommends that the aggregates you build in APO for planning data also exist in BW for actual data.

If you want to save fixed values at aggregate level ; that is not at detail level of the master planning object structure, in a planning book, you must create aggregates for this level. Otherwise the data is only saved at detail level.

You cannot form aggregates for navigational attributes

Hope this will help you...

Regards

Sujay