APO DP - new customers/materials = new CVCs/Planning Object Structure?!

[Former Member]

Hi APO-DP-Experts!

i have a question regarding the use of DP for a special customer. It concers the following:

The Customer  is getting new Customers and new Materials (lets say) 2 times a week.

Is it possible to use apo-dp?! From my point of view they would have to add/update the Characteristic Value Combinations (CVCs) 2 times a week also.. (for adding new Characteristic Values regarding the new customers and materials).

Because i am a Junior Constultant the whole proces isnt absolutely clear for me. Lets say the customer is adding new materials.. i think he will change the "Master Data" in his ERP-System. The Characteristic "0customer" is containing these new materials.. lets say "MAT1, MAT2, MAT" as new Characteristic Values.

When i think about the Characteristic Value Combinations: Do I have to REactivate the Planning Object Structure to get the new CVC automatically (without deactivating my Planing Object Structure?!). (Is it necessary to deactivate the POS?! - the Selektion-IDs for every role/user are gone also, arent they?

Hope I could define my problem/consideration.

Thank You in advance!!!

Holger

[jeff_dillon · Accepted solution]

Holger,

Dogboy 49 has it right -- you can probably automate this completely, especially if you are willing to wait until you have demand history to create the CVCs.

You can even simplify it a bit further by placing all your incoming demand history into an InfoCube in APO.  You can then generate CVCs off the cube which will create the new CVCs without impacting the existing CVCs.

Then you simply load your histroy from the cube into livecache and you are ready to go.

If you want to create the CVCs before you have demand history, you can still use the same process by getting the new information into a cube and generating CVCs from that cube.  It may be a bit more complicated, because you will need an interface to pull the customer-material combinations.

Hope this helps.

Jeff

[Former Member]

Holger,

Well, I have no idea what your DP solution looks like, so I can only comment generically.

The items that are usually managed in DP are Sales docs of some kind.  There is some process that you will develop to get these sales docs into DP.  That process can be done a number of ways, and your solution is unknown to me.

During Sales order processing in your Online Transaction processing system, one of these 'new' materials will appear in a sales doc that you need to extract.  During your extraction process, you store the extracted sales document data in one or more infoproviders, prior to actually loading it into the DP Planning area.  Using /SAPAPO/MC62 > Load to Worklist, you can import the CVCs from this infoprovider into the DP PA.  This way, when you finally load the data into the PA, the required CVCs already exist in the PA. 

This entire process is typically automated.

You do not need to deactivate the PA to load new CVCs.

Best Regards,

DB49