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Bucket Profile

former_member1111576
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Hellow APO Gurus,

i am new to SAP APO. could you please suggest on the following question,

1) what is meant by Bucket profile? wat is the purpose of that??

2) what is the relatoin between DP to SNP (whether relation between on scheduled basis)?

Thanks

Bala

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Hi Bala,

It is highly recommended that storage bucket profile always

should be very minimum (ie module specific, say for eg like

for DP it is weeks and months, for SNP days & weeks etc.,)

Only one profile is highly recommended orelse it will leads to

performance issues in storing data.

Time bucket profiles can be created exactly as per business

needs like how the business or end user wanted to view

their planning data and accordingly it has to be constructed

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

former_member1111576
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hi Senthil,

thanks for ur explanation.

Bala M

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Hi Bala,

1. Bucket Profile:-

There are two kinds of time bucket profiles one is used for storing data

(the storage buckets profile), and the other for planning the data (the planning

buckets profile).

A storage buckets profile defines the time buckets in which data based on a

given planning area is saved in Demand Planning or Supply Network Planning.

The planning buckets define which time buckets are used for planning, how

many periods are used for planning, the sequence of the periods.

You can plan in monthly, weekly, daily or (combined with fiscal year variants)

self-defined periods.

2. Relation between DP and SNP:-

DP mainly deals with system that is specifically used to define, plan and

implement demand or forecast in a planning system. whereas SNP uses the

forecast planned by DP and plans the procurement options.

DP uses various forecast methods and tools whereas SNP uses

various optimisation tools.

Hope all your queries are addressed.

Please confirm

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

former_member1111576
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hi Senthil,

Thanks for ur clarification.

if i understod correctly, DP created the forecasting based on Histrory data (BW) using diiferent Statistical tool AND using the forecasting figure SNP cretes the Plan to meet the demand. please suggst on this.

can we create N number of Bucket profiles or is it restricted??

Thanks

Bala M