IDES No Data - Interactive Planning

[Former Member]

Hi, please help this dummy so he can help others!  I am using IDES and noticed there is no data in the Planning Books / Data Views?

Can someone tell me why or if there is data that needs to be loaded from the InfoCube to the Planning Area.  I'm testing functionality & scenarios of Demand Planning both configuration and analysis in Interactive Demand Planning.

I'd like to use data if it is available, so if I could check and use it that would be great.

Eventually I would like to get instructions on loading the InfoCube and Planning Area.  I would need very detailed instructions soup to nuts even the format of a flat file. 

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Sorry to hear that Kevin 🙂

For a quick start what you can do is make all the rows (key figs) = input / output. You do this by clicking on design and then right click on the row in the next screen. somewhere you will find the option- input/output.

save.

Now come back to interactive planning. you will see all rows white

Now you can directly type in some numbers. e.g. in History if you have one to generate e.g. a statistical forecast. For doing that there is more config. Define a forecast profile, assign key figures to planning area etc.

Google Demand Planning Best Practice Configuration guide. Some older ones are free.It will explain how to load data to an infocube with a file and then to planning area. you will realize there are several things you need to do test something. Config is easy couple of hours work.

I hope this gets you started. May you need more answers, feel free to ask. You can do some basic search here on this forum where many of your questions would have been already answered.

Thanks

BS

[Former Member]

Thanks BS, I had already done that and it turns out the 1 statistical model I was running was not producing a forecast.  As soon as I choose a different model I ended up with results based on the historical data I uploaded from excel. 

I have a new problem after changing the planning book from weeks to months.  Week 52 is still showing up, past displays months, and future displays months. The column is there between Dec and Jan.

My storage bucket profile is Day and Week.  Below is a pic if you have an answer. 

Thank you for your prompt response on the original question.

[Former Member]

well what you should be checking apart from storage bucket profile is the time bucket profile. TBP means how you would like to aggregate the time series e.. monthly in past, weekly in future, monthly in past, monthly in future. monthly in past, first 8 weeks in future in weeks  and then afterwards in months etc.

Note that the its the storage bucket profile that ultimately defines how the data is stored in the live cache. The TBP can be in higher or lower periodicity over SBP. Thats all driven by design considerations and business motivations.

I hope this helps.

[former_member187488]

Hello, for the forecasting issue, you need to check the "messages" tab in the forecast result screen, from which you can understand what kind of forecasting error happens that prevent forecast result from being generated. For the planning period issue, check what time bucket profile is used for your planning book/data view in /sapapo/sdp8b (both history and future), then test it in /sapapo/tr30 by pushing 'period list' button. Wish you a happy new year~

[former_member187488]

Happy new year Borat. Sorry that I was busy during the year end, and may miss some posts here.

I was not able to answer your disaggregation question. If you think it's a bug, you can raise ticket to SAP support -- but as per my experience, there has been no bug in disaggregation logic for years

[babu_kilari4]

Hello Kevin,

Looking at the screenshot, what it looks to me is that there is a inconsistency after changing the TB profile for future and past in the "Dataview" tab of your planning book design change ( in the tranaction code /SAPAPO/SDP8B ).

Could you try to do the consistency check and initialize the planning area again to see if the problem still persists ?

• Consistency check program :-/SAPAPO/TS_LCM_CONS_CHECK   ( Run this with Repair, Check LiveCache Anchor option )

• Planning area initialization :-/SAPAPO/TS_PAREA_INITIALIZE

Hope this helps.

Babu Kilari