Key Figures

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am new to this APO and looking for some help from this forum.

I want to know the differncebetween Time Series and Order Series. what do they mean actually ?

Thanks in advance

Prabha

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi! Prabhat..

Demand Planning uses only Time series key figures ie. Every data stored has only a time stamp reference.

where as SNP uses both Order & time series . Order series key figure stores data with reference to an order(ATP Categoty) & time stamp

Regards

Vaibhav Sareen

[Former Member]

Thanks to everybody

[Former Member]

Hi Vaibhaw and Senthil,

Thanks for the response.

If I understand correctly about SNP then the data is released from DP to SNP. The result of DP is Forecast in terms of quantity based on historical data. so how can this forecast be orders ? so I dont understand the point that orders are input to SNP.

The result of SNP is production order.

Please correcdt me if I am wrong.

Thanks

Prabha

[Former Member]

Hi Prabha,

Livecache is the special type of memory that has been used in

APO which has got very special characters in terms of data

transactions.

Depending on the storage of data in livecache memory, the

DP & SNP modules uses different types of series.

In demand planning, as we commonly use historical data for

planning purpose to plan the forecast which will varies with

time, the set of data are called time series and these time

series will be used for planning in demand planning

In SNP, as orders will be the input for planning in which the

value of orders cannot change with time, SNP uses order

series data.

Hope it is clear now. Please confirm.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Senthil,

Thanks for the response.

If I understand correctly about SNP then the data is released from DP to SNP. The result of DP is Forecast in terms of quantity based on historical data. so how can this forecast be orders ? so I dont understand the point that orders are input to SNP.

The result of SNP is production order.

Please correcdt me if I am wrong.

Thanks

Prabha

[Former Member]

Hello Prabhat,

When the forecast gets generated in DP it gets stored as time series but when the Fcst gets released to SNP it gets converted to order series with cetagory FA

Hope this answers your quest.

Thanks,Bopanna

[Former Member]

HI! Prabhat.

DP genetated forecast is a time series data in a time series keyfigure.

This data is released to an forecast element E.g.(FA/FC etc.) so that SNP can access this data and perform subsequent planning. We use a release profile to transfer data from Time series key figure to an order.

Regards

Vaibhav Sareen

[Former Member]

Hi Vaibhav and Bopana,

So shall I understand in a differnt way? Since the role of SNP is to do the further production planning,transport lane,deployment so the data is governed using order series ?

Thanks,

Prabhat

[Former Member]

Hi,

All transactional data(arising from SNP and PPDS) have order cat linked to it.

Thanks,Bopanna