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Using Location Split

Former Member
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Hello,

We are just thinkin of removing Location characteristic from DP, since it is practically insignificant in our demand Planning process, we just have to use for SNP, but we just churned huge number of CVCs in DP which is hurting the system performance badly and removing Location, we can easily avoid some 90K CVCs, so my question is, can we use Location split table to enter 1000's of products. Basically, the location split table will have around 100K records. If so how to populate those many records in that table. Is there any BAPI or SMOD that can do this?

Thanks

Rupa

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Former Member
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Hi Roopa,

I agree with sri. Why not leave the location as a characteristic and just maintain a dummy value in it. That reduces the combinations too. How many locations have you got? if you don't maintain location, then when you release the data to SNP, how are you going to assign the product to location in the transfer?

I would suggest looking at some other characteristics other than the location and product.It is ofcourse a big chnage to add/remove characteristics from your POS. May be deleting the values and using a dummy value instead is a better option. How do you take a backup of CVCs and load back? You have to download the CVCs, delete the location row and then upload...It's a big issue and problematic.

Former Member
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Roopa:

We have the same issue and decided to put a "dummy" in for location. The we are using the Location Split APO=> Demand Planning=>Environment=> /SAPAPO/MC7A. We will load this table from R/3

- but I would think that this table could be populated via a program as you indicate. This should reduce the number of CVCs. This is documented in the SAP "Release Activities" that goes to SNP.

Regards,

Steven S

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Roopa,

Hope you would taken all the options to improve the performance like Parallel Profile or Key figure based intialisation while intialising the planning area.Regarding Key Figure based intialisation,you don't need to intialise the future horizon for history key figure and history horizon for forecast key figure.

Hope you are also removing the CVC's of phased out products.

Regards,

Thukral

Edited by: Thukral on Feb 26, 2009 6:18 AM

Former Member
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In DP you should be creating an unconstrained demand plan of how much product you want to ship from a distribution center in a given time bucket. You can load the location split table directly with an ABAP program, the table itself is just referenced via /sapapo/locmap so balance the GUID and insert as required.

Former Member
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Roopa,

You cannot do away with the Location characteristic in DP. Material & Location characteristics are a must if you want to release to SNP. What you can do is however, use any of your other characteristics as Location instead of 9ALOCNO. You need to assign that characteristic to Location in the MPOS (Menu bar -> Edit -> Assign Product/Location).

Even the Location Split functionality actually refers the MPOS infocube location characteristic during release of DP results to SNP. Hence, it is imperative that you maintain Location characteristic in DP MPOS.

Cheers,

Srinidhi