APO BW

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Hi,

Kindly answer the following.

Q.During the creation of the CVC's what is the significance of the (from) date and (to) date. In the real time what are real time values we assign for these dates and on what does this depend up on?

Q.What is a time series object?

Q. 5.4 Initializing the Planning Area

Use

The purpose of this activity is to initialize the planning area and to create time series objects?

Procedure

1. Access the activity using the following navigation options:

SAP SCM menu Advanced Planning and Optimization  Demand Planning  Environment  Administration of Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning

Transaction code /SAPAPO/MSDP_ADMIN

2. Right-click the planning area you created (e.g. DP_001).

3. Choose Create time series objects.

4. Make the following entries :

Field name Description User action and values Notes

Plng Version 000

Start Date e.g. current date – one year (What is this start date)?

End Date e.g. current date + two years (What is this end date)?

5. Choose Execute.

6. Go back.

Thanks,

The Invincible

[somnath_manna · Accepted solution]

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> Q.During the creation of the CVC's what is the significance of the (from) date and (to) date. In the real time what are real time values we assign for these dates and on what does this depend up on?

I assume you are using the create CVC from infoprovider option. In that case you need the Date Restriction to basically let the system know which all combintations for the data records (each having a Time Bucket specified based on 0CALWEEK or 0CALMONTH) in the Infocube are to be used for generating the CVCs. Lets say your infocube contains Shipment information which you are using to generate your CVCs. Now for a very restricted date range (say 15 days) there were no shipment to a certain customer for a product. Since this record is not considered for your CVC creation you will simply miss a CVC for the customer - product combination.

> Q.What is a time series object?

We are still struggling to understand it fully. Thumbrule data in liveCache (its a blackbox) is stored in two ways Time Series and Order Series. DP data (i.e. keyfigure) is stored in Time Series form as it has a time bucket (like Week / Month) and CVC as the key.

SNP / PPDS relevant data is stored in Order Series form as they have a Time Stamp (not bucket) and a location product combination along with an ATP Category as the key.

Hope this helps.

Somnath