Create Time series Objects

[Former Member]

Hi When we need to Initialize the Planning Area? is it necessary to initialize the PA for every changes in Masterdata ?

[Former Member]

the following is relevant to the DP planning area

Planning area buckets have an impact on sizing. You wouldnt want to have more time buckets that what you need

Ideally you should be reinitializing planing area as frequently as your Time buckets move

So if in the biggest(in terms of time horizon) planning book you have a daily planning bucket and use say 40 days of history and 50 days for your fucture buckets for your planning then ideally you would want the planning area to match this (this need not be a planning book but could be any process in DP say proportional factor calculation or Forecast calculation)

Once you know how many buckets your planning area should contain at any time you should be reinitializing it accordingly so that your buckets are not more than what you need.

so in the above example if you need 40 of history and 50 of future you will reinitialize your planning area every day to get this. make sure you have the correct program for reinitialize (not the iitialize one)

Master data in DP is usually CVC. So if your DP planning area do not have any SNP masterdata to consider then you dont even have to worry about consistency checks on MPOS in DP for a masterdata change(product master or location master, tlanes etc) in SNP

But when you do masterdata change in DP by creating , deleting or changing CVCs you would ideally run the consistency check jobs soon after

Its also good practice to set the run the consistency check jobs for MPOS, Planning Area as well other consistency checks regularly (every night?)

There are a few posts on the exact names of the checks and what they do somewhere in this forum.. a search might give you a better idea

[Former Member]

I would also run the reorg job: "Check Livecache time series master data" job (transaction: /sapapo/tslcreorg) to update the master data and to remove superfluous time series objects.

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy]

Is this DP or SNP ?

For any planning function, DP or SNP, it is important to do planning area initialization while initial setting up or on an on-going basis for rolling in new time buckets and rolling out old, as time moves forward. So the planning area initialization sets up the planning horizons in the past and the future that is planning relevant. In DP typically the past horizons and the future horizons are much longer than SNP. In SNP we typically have very minimal past horizon and have most of future planning horizon. All this is business requirements driven.

Whenever you create master data (DP or SNP), its always important to run Live Cache consistency check in repair option instead of planning area initialization. (program /SAPAPO/TS_LCM_CONS_CHECK)