Planning area.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can anyone give a business example in which scenario we need to use 2planning area.

[somnath_manna]

To keep CVCs under control and also separate Planning Areas by Geography - especially required for a Global APO system where there is no "night time" for background jobs to be run.

This is what I have seen in my projects:

A) US Consumer Electronics company - different planning areas for each business unit. Some Characteristics were different as well as some keyfigures. Main driver was different business process in different business units, CVC volume (back in 2002/3 it was a concern) and security (don't want different business units to "accidentally" see each others data).

B) US based Global Pharma company - one Planning Area for operative planning, another planning area for long-term / tactical planning. Drivers - different time horizon and periodicity (tactical planning area has month and quarters as storage bucket)

C) Global Lube manufacturer - different planning areas for each geographical region. Primary driver to have time for running background jobs, secondly to manage CVC volume and its impact on performance in Interactive Planning.

Hope this helps.

Somnath

[Former Member]

Hi There,

New planning area required because,

1. Sometimes Business people Uses Unit of Measure u2018CSu2019 or 'KG' instead of u2018 PC u2018

2.Use storage bucket profile of days_weeks_months rather than 9ASNP.This allows reporting to BW in months .

3. Additional time series key figures used for store persistent data required for BW reporting and aggregate alert calculation.

I hope this helps..

Thanks,

Satyajit

[Former Member]

Hi Mohanty,

is that 2 planning areas for DP process only?

Regards

Vijaya

[Former Member]

Hi Mohanty,

Planning book contains the details of all characteristics and key figures as stored information.

Planning area contains only the user specific or operation specific planning related key figures and characteristics.

For example, if you are working in DP and using DP planning area, you can customise your working planning area in such a way to view only DP relevant characteristics and key figures so at point of time, you can carry out interactive changes in planning book and store in your planning area.

Planning area also helps in retrieving user specific data for copying, loading, saving etc.,

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.