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A planning hierarchy represents the organizational levels and units in your company for which you want to plan. A planning hierarchy is a combination of characteristic values based on the characteristics of one information structure.
Planning hierarchies provide a framework for your planning activities in consistent planning and level-by-level planning. With these planning methods, a planning hierarchy must exist for the information structure before you can plan its key figures. You can create only one planning hierarchy for an information structure. However, a hierarchy can have as many different branches as you like. See also Planning Hierarchies Containing Product Groups.
You can create one or more planning hierarchies automatically when you install Release 3.0, with the Master Data Generator.
You can also create a planning hierarchy manually (see Creating a Planning Hierarchy). It consists of one or more planning levels to which you assign characteristic values.
You maintain planning hierarchies in much the same way as you maintain product groups, on a level-by-level basis, and define the aggregation factor and the proportional factor of each characteristic value just as you define them for the members of a product group. For more information, see Planning Hierarchy Maintenance Functions.
In flexible planning, you can either have the system create the planning hierarchy or you can create it manually. To find out how to create a planning hierarchy automatically, see Master Data Generator in Flexible Planning.
You do not need to create a planning hierarchy for delta planning.
To create a planning hierarchy manually:
From the flexible planning menu, choose Master data ® Planning hierarchy ® Create.
The initial screen for creating a planning hierarchy appears.
Enter the name of the information structure on which you want to base your planning hierarchy.
A dialog box appears inviting you to enter values for the characteristics from your information structure.
The units of the information structure on which you base your planning hierarchy must be defined in Customizing (in "Set parameters for info structures and key figures").
If you want to define characteristic values at all levels of your planning hierarchy, leave the fields blank. Otherwise, enter one or more characteristic values corresponding to the desired hierarchical levels.
Do not leave gaps between characteristic values; that is, for every characteristic value that you enter, you must also enter characteristic values in the fields above it.
To continue, choose ENTER .
The data maintenance screen for the first level in your planning hierarchy appears.
Now enter the characteristic values that you want to be members of your planning hierarchy together with their aggregation and proportional factors. (You proceed to the next level with Goto ® Next level.)
-ashok
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