APO DP

[Former Member]

Hi,

what is the difference CVC realignment and like profiling?

Edited by: ashishK on Feb 25, 2010 7:04 AM

[Former Member]

Hi Ashish,

This will be defined at key figure level in DP

Under transaction /sapapo/msdp_admin, if you select

the planning area and right click & display, under the

tab key figure disaggregation will contain the details

of calculation type and its time-based disaggregation type.

Please confirm your query is resolved

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Hi Ashish,

Aggregation and disaggregation are the planning tools in DP which

will be used when planning at very higher level and lower levels

respectively.

Say for eg., if you have 3 materials, material 1,2,3 which are at

lower level and belongs to a material group or a family A which is

at a very high level, if you want to see the key figures summed up

at a high level A, then you can use aggregation functionality

If you want to plan the key figures summing down at material level,

then we use disaggregation functionality.

Hope this example will fetch you to understand the concept.

Please confirm

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Thanks Senthil,

Got it. Where and How do you define this in DP?

[Former Member]

Hi Ashish,

1) Historical data

2) Yes, In like profile, you will maintain the product which

is similar to it and will not have past history. Alongwith

updating the product in CVC, you need to update like profile

Regards

R. Senthil Mareswaran.

[Former Member]

Many Thanks Senthil,

I have conceptual doubts regarding the aggregation and disaggregation feature. How and where can you do it? The documentation has not clarified my doubts.

[Former Member]

Hi Ashish,

1) CVC realignment :-

In this process you generate new characteristic value combinations

based on existing combinations and copy data from the source

combinations to the new combinations. You can specify that the original

values of both the characteristic values and the data are deleted.

2) Like profiling:-

A like profile allows you to create the demand forecast of a product using

the historical input data of a product or products whose demand behavior

is the same or similar. Create like profiles for products with short lifecycles

or for products with insufficient historical data. You can use the same like

profile for multiple products.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Hi Senthil,

Many thanks for the reply.

As mentioned by you, In CVC realignment, the "data" gets copied from one CVC to the other.. Does the "data" here mean historical data and forecast?

Also, if I change the "product" alone in CVC, will it then be same as Like profiling?