Hello,
How do we handle the disaggregation of Statforecast keyfigure in IBP ?
Normally this keyfigure should be in Non editable mode since this is system generated – when we have non editable keyfigure then there is no possibility of setting up a ‘Disaggregation mode ‘. This Keyfigure is in base planning level – Perprodloc.
I want to disaggregate to planning level Perprodloccus.
Thanks.
This document covers frequently asked questions from Consultants, Partners and Customers about SAP Integrated Business Planning Solution. The purpose of this document is to cover important questions that come up during IBP Implementations in application areas like Excel Add-In , Model Configuration, Analytics , Process Management, System Setup and Transports, Releases and Data Integration. This page will be updated frequently. If you have additional questions that need to be added, please contact Raghav Jandhyala (raghav.jandhyala@sap.com) and Alecsandra Ghita (a.ghita@sap.com)
A: Refer SAP Note: 1790530 S&OP / IBP Planning View Templates for the Excel Add-In
A: Refer Application help SAP Integrated Business Planning 4.0 – SAP Help Portal Page Chapter: Installing the Add-in for Microsoft Excel. Also refer to note: Install the S&OP / IBP Excel Add-In: Supported Configurations / Prerequisites 2135948
A: This happens usually after excel session has closed unexpectedly. Check if IBP add on is disabled and enable it back: Excel Options -> Add-Ins -> Manage Disabled Items -> Select IBP add on -> Enable
Then go to COM Add -> Ensure that IBP add on is checked.
A: Planning View can display only one time profile level (one type of time granularity) at a time. To view multiple time buckets you can use an EPM Local Member to aggregate to other time periods. Another option would be to create one template with 2 different planning views on two different tabs: one to display data on monthly basis and the other one in quarterly buckets.
A: Yes, upon installation of the Add-in you can choose from multiple languages to install. Only one language can be installed. The list of supported languages is available here: <do we have a documentation or a note?>
A: In the SAP example templates of note 1790530 are implemented with Microsoft Excel functionality. For performance reasons, it is recommended to limit the chart data range up to 300 rows.
There are other ways to implement charts in Microsoft Excel, of course, and for specific layouts of planning views something simpler could be implemented. I
In general template development beyond the SAP samples is done by implementation projects.
Q What are the performance recommendations for Excel Planning Views:
Refer to the following SAP Notes on Performance and Sizing recommendations of Planning Views
S&OP / IBP Excel Add-In: Planning View Performance Recommendations | 2153455 |
S&OP / IBP Add-In for Microsoft Excel: Recommended Sizes for Planning Views | 2108186 |
A: Planning views are not transferable unless the planning areas are identical in key figures and attributes. If the planning areas are identical, you log on to the one you want to copy from, load the planning view, log off, log on to the one you want to copy to and refresh. Then you just add it as a favorite or template.
If you need transfer between different planning areas, you need to have an empty template (i.e. the chart, the hidden sheets, the header information etc., but no planning view in it). SAP delivers some example empty templates with note 1790530.
A: Yes macros can be used and saved in templates or favorites.
A: We currently track changes to Master Data as they are related to key figure values. Tracking changes of master data by itself is not a requirement that customers have asked about but we’re interested in such use cases.
A: This is part of Change History enhancements planned for 2015 or 2016.
A: This topic may need further research. There is a hook provided by EPM to run code on refresh.
A: You can use formulas to compute editable key figures. The resulting numbers will be stored in HANA DB, but not the formulas.
A: The formula is automatically converted into local members only if the Local Member Recognition feature is activated. Advanced -> Sheet Options -> General tab -> Activate Local Member Recognition
A:To avoid blocking users unnecessarily there is no locking on application level. The assumption is that users rarely work on the same data at the same point in time in an actual S&OP or demand planning process.If two users save data the system takes the last change saved. Whenever you query in Excel (that is after refresh or simulate or changing filter) you see the newest saved data, except for changes to data you did yourself in simulation mode.
A: When pressing simulate, the system disaggregates and updates the changed values and from there computes all relevant calculated key figure values to show the correct result for everything that is shown in the planning view. This involves typically many more steps and calculations than just updating the changed values.
When you change your filter or planning level or list of key figures, the system dynamically computes what’s necessary for the new visible set of key figure values without having to leave the simulation.
A: For guidance on how to copy and then activate a SAP sample planning area, please refer to the following blog post:
SAP4 Planning Area Copy / Activate / Load
Going futher, part 2 of this blog will guide you on how to load data into IBP via flat file.
SAP4 Planning Area Copy / Activate / Load - part 2
A: The base UOM can be modeled as an attribute of the Product Master. This will allow loading transactional key figure data in the base unit of measure. Refer to section 17.3 in the model configuration guide.
Another option that would allow specifying the unit of measure at the time of data load would be modeling UOM conversion similar to currency conversion (maintaining the base UOM as a planning level root attribute).
A: A Compound Master Data Type is used to store attributes that belong to multiple Master Data Type Keys. For example in the SAP2 planning area, Market Family and Market Segment are attributes of the combination of Customer and Product and are maintained via the master data type “Customer Product”. There is a foreign key relationship between the keys of the compound and the referenced master data types with individual keys.
Based on the Planning Area Settings if an attribute of a compound master data is chosen as mandatory then data will not be loaded for a key figure unless a corresponding master data entry exists in the compound master data type.
A: For planning levels which include primary master data types like Product and Customer, the Compound Master Data Type “Customer Product” should also be included so that the Market Size and Market Revenue attributes are available. Also, a Planning Level can include a root attribute coming from a Compound Master Data Type where this attribute is not a key. Example: Forecast Location is an attribute of a compound master data type “Customer Sales Org”. This attribute can be root of a planning level such as Product - Forecast Location.
A: Virtual Master Data Type doesn’t store data but models a relationship between other master data types. It is used to join two or more MDTs with a join condition. This is usually used when an attribute of one Master Data Type should be available for another. Example: The master data type “Product Customer Group” has an attribute Active. This attribute should be available for all Customers belonging to the Customer Group. To achive this we need to join the Product Customer Group and Customer Master Data Types. The join is on Customer Group.
A: A reference master data object is a view on an existing master data object. Reference Master Data Type is master data type that refers to another master data type. It does not contain actual master data but simply refers to the data contained in its underlying Master Data Type. It is required when the underlying data is the same but can play different semantic roles and you want to avoid loading the same data twice. For example, consider “Product” and “Component”. Data-wise a component is also a product. So one could model “Product” as an independent Master Data Type whereas “Component” could become a Reference Master Data Type, which refers to master data type “Product”. Of course, this is optional as the master data type “Component” could also be defined separately from “Product” and a separate set of data could be loaded for components.
A: Base planning level defines the planning level at which a Key Figure is Stored. On top of this one can build a graph of calculations that iteratively define how other key figures are calculated based on the stored key figure. The graph ends with request level nodes, which are the ones that a user queries form the IBP Excel UI or IBP Analytics. At query time the graph is evaluated from request level to stored key figures to determine what needs to be read and then in the reverse order to do the actual calculations.
Usually the base planning level is the most detailed planning level for a key figure. That means you can usually display results for a key figure at base planning level (if this is your request level) or any aggregated (request) level according to the defined configuration. However there are instances where you want to configure a KF stored at an aggregated level (for example a financial qunatity at Product Family and Customer Group level) but want to display same at product/customer detailed level. Then you can use for example a split factor calculation to calculated more detailed plannibg levels than the base planning level so that at request level you can show the key figure for customers and products.
A: You can perform additions or subtractions on KFs at different plan levels. Eg KF1@PERPRODCUST + KF2@PROD. In this case an inner join is performed and KF2@PERPROD value will be available at plan level PRODCUST. You need to check for Null conditions eg ISNULL(KF2@PROD)
A: For cross period calculation, there are several configuration options available: Period transformations, Time Aggregation Calculation, Period to Data calculations etc.
A: L-Code is internal to SAP and there is no documentation available. LCODE is not recommended to be used. There are many cases where LCODE can be avoided. Only use case for LCODE is for calculations like Cumulative Sum where KF at prior period is used to calculate KF at current period.
A: More statistical forecasting methods than the ones available with IBP for sales and operations come with IBP for demand. In release 5.0, IBP for demand already supports additional Statistical Models like MLR, Croston, Auto-Fit, and Weighted Moving Average.
A: There is no concept of Custom Code / Custom Development, However, the entire model of planning area and master dara types is highly configurable to adapt to a Customer’s use case. There are no code exits but in practice most calculations can be performed through configuration. If more complex Custom Code needs to be done, then you can contact SAP IBP Product Management.
A: Not yet. In product roadmap.
A: Yes, you can use Copy Operator to perform calculations and store in a target key figure. The Copy Operator can be scheduled or run on request from the IBP Excel UI.
A: Delivered Models are example content. If Customer’s requirement fits closely to the delivered model, then they can use the Delivered Model and adapt further to their requirements. In most cases we see that Customer starts with their own planning Model. If Supply Planning or Inventory Optimization are needed, then SAP4 and SAP3 planning areas are copied as starting points for the Customer Planning Area.
A: The Model Configuration Guide contains details on SAP delivered models. Also refer to EKT materials where some of teh model details are covered. More comprehensive details of each model will be available in Future release.
A: They can be all configured in one planning area
A: Yes.
A: Calculations can be defined to copy KF values across planning levels. Refer Model Configuration Guide – Split Factor Calculation.
A: Interchangeability and new product introduction are on the IBP roadmap. Already today, with configuration you can Transfer Forecast / History from one product to another. You need to define the relationship of Product and Reference Product in Product MDT and define calculation to carry forecast/history. You can refer to example in SAP1 for Dependent Component Demand Qty.
A: Refer to application help on Supply Planning . There are fixed semantics of Attributes Master Data Types and Key Figures. eg Attributes: PRDID, LOCID, CUSTID, RESID,SOURCEID, etc ; Master Data Types : <Prefix>PRODUCT, <Prefix>CUSTOMER,etc , KFs: CONSENSUSDEMAND, PROJECTEDINVENTORY,etc. Refer to SAP4 Delivered Model.
A: This decisions completely depends on the business blueprint identified during the blueprint phase. Every Customer is different in how the Master data and Key Figures are used in S&OP process. When using Supply Planning or Inventory Optimization the Standard Delivered Models SAP4 and SAP3 should be used as a starting point and additional KFs can be added to this. Whether you can also use SAP1, SAP2 or SAP5 depends on the details of the customer use case.
A: Check if UOM and Currency have also been initialized in Versions.
A: Root attributes are necessary as keys to identify individual key figure values. They define the independent dimensions in which the key figure values exist. The root attributes are often also the keys of master data object types but this is not a necessary condition. See chapter 7 from model configuration guide.
A: A time profile is made up of time profile levels, each of them being made up of periods. These periods are time intervals defined by an individual start and an end date for each period. The transactional data from a planning area is stored or calculated across these time profile periods. One defines start and end date of the time profile overall, so that the IBP process can be run for multiple years without changes to the time profile. Moreover, each planning area has a planning horizon where user defines the past and future periods to be considered in the planning algorithms. The periods that are part of this horizon are available for selection in the planning view - time settings. For more details check chapter 5 from the Model Configuration Guide.
A: Before calculated key figures can be used for disaggregation, they must be copied into another stored key figure at the same base planning level as the key figure to be disaggregated. This means that disaggregation works only if the disaggregation key figure can be calculated at the base planning level of the to-be disaggregated key figure. For more details, check 10.2 and 10.3 from the Model Configuration Guide. In special cases also the ADVSIM operator might be used.
A: A key figure is a quantitative measure of numbers that very by a configurable set of keys and time periods, which is either an input for planning or is an output of planning). A helper key figure is a key figure that is used to hold intermediate calculation result in case of a complex multi-step calculation. Such key figures are not available for display in the Planning View.
A calculation in which the value of an attribute gets calculated is referred to as attribute transformation.
A: Yes, JAM is a separate license from IBP.
A: Using the self-service Model Transport Functionality. Refer to the Model Configuration Guide: 14 Transport Planning Models. It also includes best practices for setting up models for different phases of the project.
A: After Subscription Contract is signed, the Customer gets an On-Boarding Checklist and a System is provided based on the Contract terms. Usually the contract covers a Test and a Production Tenant.
A: Usually Cloud environments have a Test Tenant and Production tenant. Please refer Model Configuration Guide on how to setup Models and best practices for transports:
A: Currently IBP 4.0 and 5.0 are only available on Cloud version. S&OP 3.0 is available as an on-premise solution.
A: The help pageSAP Integrated Business Planning 4.0 – SAP Help Portal Page is the landing page for all information relevant to IBP.The Whats New section highlights the features in each Release or Patch.SAP Note 2036622is the central Note for IBP from which you can access notes
2089926 - SAP IBP 4.0 SP01: Patch Release Information Notice
2037139 - SAP IBP 4.0: Release Restrictions Note
Further you can refer the recordings of Customer Update Group Webinars : Events and Webinars for SAP Integrated Business Planning
A: Being on-demand (subscription based), updates are included for paid customer/partner systems.
More information on upgrades can be found here- IBP Upgrade Planning Information and Integrated Business Planning Upgrade Process
A: The high level steps are as follows:
1. Create Role
2. Create User
3. Configure the Model (Attributes, Master Data Types, Time Profiles, Planning Area, Planning Levels, Key Figures, and Scenarios)
4. Activate the Model (Time Profile, Master Data Objects, Planning Area)
5. Load Master Data, Time Periods, and Key Figures
6. Use Excel Add-In to view/change data
7. Create Visualizations/Charts/Dashboards in the UI for analysis
In practice these steps are iterative, of course.
Yes, you must activate the model before you can load data.
A: IBP Analytics uses HANA Calculation Engine and HANA Analytical Views. All numbers in planning and Analytics are computed inside the HANA DB.
A: Analytics in Web UI of IBP provide an option to export static chart content it in PDF/JPG/PNG format
A: Process Dashboard needs to be added to Dashboard under Dashboard Actions ->Edit ->Add Process. You can choose two different visualizations for Process: Donut Process or Chevron Process
A: Yes, In IBP 4.0, you have an option to share dashboard by user or by role. This is performed from Dashboard Action menu.
A: Process Progress % advances only based on the Task Completion of the task associated with the Process Step definition and for the Users participating in the Process Step.
A: Entire Process Management in S&OP , Collaboration , Feed and Tasks, Excel UI - Comments and Reason Codes,
A: No.
A: There are two separate alert concepts in IBP.
A: The geographic chart types in IBP require a group by definition that includes the geo coordinates for the attribute. For example, to create a chart that shows the key figure by location, the location attribute must include the attributes GEOLONGITUDE and GEOLATITUDE.
The network chart types are a special type that create a network view based on the master data types. To display a network, the group-by in the chart must include one or more of the following:
A: They need front-end roles to have access to the launchpad tiles, and back-end roles to use functions and to have access to the data. You can create these roles in the Roles app, where you can assign tile catalogs and groups to front-end roles, and specify authorizations to the back-end roles.
A: SAP delivers standard roles containing the authorizations needed for using the IBP applications, including the Fiori apps and the IBP Add-In for Microsoft Excel.You can copy and adjust these roles as required.
A: You can adjust the front-end roles under in the Roles app: on the “Menu” tab click “+SAP Fiori Tile Groups” or “SAP Fiori Tile Catalog” and add new groups or catalogs.
A: You cannot change the catalogs but you can rearrange the tile groups using the available catalogs. This functionality is available both for administrators and end-users. For more information on how to create your own catalogs or groups, see Accessing Your Apps from the Launchpad - SAP Integrated Business Planning - SAP Library
Q: Why should I create composite roles instead of using single roles?
A: A composite role can, for example, group different roles that a specific user group such as “Market Planner” would need. Users who are assigned a composite role are automatically assigned the authorizations contained in the associated single roles. Composite roles themselves do not contain authorization data.
Q: What are visibility filters good for?
A: Visibility filters provide users access to various data sets via the roles they are assigned to (for example, a filter may define that users with a certain role can only access sales data from a certain location). Different visibility filters assigned to a user are combined so that the user has access to all the data defined by the sets of attribute combinations that each of them allows.
You can create filters in the Visibility Filters app. When you define a visibility filter, make sure that the selected MD object is available for your key figure.
A: First you need to create the user in the User Management app. Once you have created the user, you can assign roles to it on the Roles tab.
A: You cannot assign a visibility filter directly to a user. First assign the filter to a role using the IBP_VISFLT authorization object, then assign the role to a user.
A:You can, in the Transport Model Entities app. For more information, see the Model Configuration Guide.
In the Help at SAP Integrated Business Planning - SAP Library.
There is also a short video on YouTube at User Administration in SAP Integrated Business Planning 5.0 or higher - YouTube.
A: HCI is the recommended Data Integration tool to load Data to IBP On-Demand and to extract data. Another option for upload is to use the Data Integration Web UI available in IBP. Then this is more manual and not automated like in HCI. It is also not suited for large uploads
A: IBP can take inputs from any Source and Output to any Target System. HCI is the ETL tool which enables connectivity to SAP or Non-SAP Systems.
A: Key figure data can be exported from IBP using http-based export APIs or HCI. For mass data export SAP highly recommends the latter. HCI also allows master data export. For details you can refer to the Data Export Guide: http://help.sap.com/download/ibp/ibp40_data_export_guide.pdf
A: For a prototype to quickly show the value of IBP, you can load data through the Self Service Data Import Web UI. It provides options to download csv templates of Time Profile, Master Data and Key Figures, which you can then fill with data and upload. This method is not recommended for production systems or mass data.
A: HCI-DS needs only one agent per customer. One agent can be connected to many different systems. Optionally you can have more agents for failover.
A: Agent groups are collections of agents that are logically grouped to enable high-availability solutions for your production tasks. It is also a method for load balancing tasks onto multiple agents.
A: You can only access folders within the network for which you have direct access from the Agent. The Windows user that is used to run the HCI agent service must be a domain user that has access to the network locations you want to read from. Additionally, all folders you want to read from need to be “white-listed” in the agent configuration tool (only root folder needs to be white-listed, sub folders will be accessible automatically).
A: For tasks running in production, SAP does not require customers to upgrade their agent. They can keep the old version of the Agent. Only when there is need to do new development and promote new tasks to production, an upgrade of the agent is required. For updates of Agents, there is no auto-update. The upgrade install is very simple: it will detect the previous version, keep all configurations and just replace the binaries.
A: http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/hci1/en/hci10_agent_en.pdf
A: Yes, you can maintain multiple sets of datastore parameters. In the datastore`s configuration menu click on “Create New Datastore Configuration”. One Datastore will be maintained as Default Configuration. Unless user picks a different configuration from the dropdown list at run/schedule time, the default configuration is used. In order to be able to select a different configuration at run-time, you also need to create system configuration. System configurations group data store configurations from different data stores together as one logical entity.
A: From the Datastores tab, select your IBP datastore and then the target object. Click the View Data icon ().
Note: If View Data is not available in you sandbox target datastores, contact SAP Support and request that they activate View Data functionality on your target application.
Once the IBP stored procedure has finished the data that had been loaded into the staging table by an HCI task will be deleted. This means that data for a particular run of an HCI task may only be in the staging table for a matter of minutes – until the stored procedure is completed.
You can use batch reports in HCI to determine if a particular run of an HCI task was successful after the stage table data is deleted. The corresponding *REP tables are also available as data sources in HCI.
A: HCI-DS provides "view data" in the sandbox IBP (not in production for security reasons). This will be helpful during development.
A: No, data cannot be loaded into IBP REP tables. These tables are for reporting purposes only. You can see from HCI-DS what data was loaded via these REP tables. This allows you to review error & success for individual rows. The IBP REP tables are purged periodically as well (default: after 7 days).
A: We do have SSO with SAP ID Service. So if a user logs-in via the browser, and has certificate login enabled, the user will login automatically without needing to type username and password.
A: The username/password entered in the Agent Configuration tool is only used for the initial connection from the agent to the server, once the initial connection is made, the agent is “trusted” by the server and the username/password is no longer needed. So the username/password is not stored in a configuration file. The certificates that are exchanged between agent and server are used for the trusted connection between agent and server for future communication. Other passwords to connect to source or target datastores, are entered in the HCI web UI. Whenever HCI stores a password, it’s always encrypted (e.g. HCI need to store the credentials to connect to source systems). Via our web UI, it’s even possible to generate a new encryption key and re-encrypt all passwords in case there would be a suspicion that the encryption key is compromised (or if the company has a policy to update encryption keys every x months.)
A: You may not have the necessary privileges. SAP HANA Cloud Integration has a role-based architecture. Developers have privileges only in the sandbox environment; Production Operators have privileges only in the production environment. Your Security Administrator can tell you what roles you've been assigned. You can also click on Help in the Administration Page for a description of each role and which privileges it has.
A: No, we do not support ID Provider federation yet. HCI-DS only supports SAP ID Service.
A: Yes. The ABAP execution mode, Generate and Execute, will cause an ABAP program file to be generated on the Agent machine. Next the file is automatically sent to the NetWeaver server, executed and the results (data) are sent back over RFC to the agent. The ABAP program itself is not stored on the system.
A: Your Test and Production systems will not be open for modifications, so you cannot use the “Generate and Execute” mode. Instead you need to set the datastore (configuration) to “Execute pre-loaded” for which you need to transport to the TEST system the ABAP program that was previously generated into DEV. The generated ABAP program can be found on the agent machine in the ABAP folder (in %DS_COMMON-DIR%).
A: In the SAP application datastore, check if the ABAP execution option is set to Execute preloaded. If it is, make sure that the ABAP program has been installed on the SAP application server. Moreover, when you upload the program in SAP Transaction SE38 you must use the name specified in the ABAP Query. Edit any ABAP Query in the Dataflow, and Go to the ABAP Options tab. Use the ABAP Program Name shown.
A: A template is includes pre-set Global Variables, pre-load/post-load scripts and may or may-not have a dataflow. There is a catalog listing under chapter 2, see this link:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/hci1/en/hci10_integration_ibp_en.pdf
A: 1) Tasks are developed in the sandbox environment, never in production. Tasks can be created from scratch, or they can be based on a template. For a task based on a template, once imported in the sandbox repository, developers can completely customize the template; HCI does not have any restrictions here. 2) But, once tasks are tested and an Administrator moves them to production, no changes [at all] are allowed in the production repository. The only changes in production would be configuration changes like the connection parameters (connect to prod ERP and prod IBP instead of test systems) or variables (e.g. a variable filter to set a start date of which data to extract).
A: The templates were created to cover a broad range of requirements. Unmapped columns in the Target Query may or may not be relevant. You may need to verify your specific requirements. Unmapped columns in the Output pane of the Target Query may give a warning when validating a task. The task can still be executed if validation has only warnings. However, if a column is required in the target stage table, you will get an error at task run time.
A: Global variables are symbolic placeholders that are populated with values during task runs. Some of them are required by SAP IBP during data post processing (e.g: $G_PLAN_AREA, $G_SCENARIO, $G_TIME_PERIOD, $G_BATCH_COMMAND, $G_LOAD_DATE). For a complete list and descriptions see the IBP integration guide:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/hci1/en/hci10_integration_ibp_en.pdf
A: UTC time zone (Coordinated Universal Time) is displayed in all locations except the Schedule dialog. For scheduling a task, in the UI, you can set the timezone you want to use to schedule your task (behind the scenes HCI will convert to UTC and store this in the repository).
A: This gap will appear if the global variable $G_LOAD_DATE is set to SYSDATE(). Sysdate() returns the date and time in the local time zone of the HCI agent machine while IBP tracks time as UTC (Universal Coordinated Time). Set the global variable to SYSUTDDATE().
A: If you enter an incorrect name for a Global Variable and you save this, you cannot edit this name for the Global Variable. You must enter a new [correct name].
A: Yes – Highlight your dataflow, and from the actions menu, choose REPLICATE. A list of other tasks will be presented. Choose the task you like to copy the dataflow to.
A: The data flows will be executed sequentially following the order in which the target tables are listed in the task. You can modify the order of target table execution order by choosing Manage target order from the Actions menu in the task editor. You can only change the order of target table execution. You cannot change the execution order of dataflows for a given target table.
A: Click the Refresh button in the upper-right corner of the page to see an updated status. The refresh button is the two swirling arrows rotating in a circle.
A: Only one user at a time may edit a task. If necessary, you can ask you administrator to unlock a task that someone has inadvertently left locked. Tip: After the task has been unlocked, if needed, refresh the Projects tab.
A: No, as HCI is not designed to store data. Instead, you can use lookup into file functionality.
A: There is no function for week to month transformation as we cannot tell start date and end date of a week from the WW_YYYY syntax. Usually, the customer has a table in their system that gives the start dates and end dates of a week. You would need to join this table into the queries of your HCI task to get the dates you need. Or you could lookup into a table where this information is maintained. Transforming the data directly is HCI is also possible, being just a matter of math and date time function. For more details check the following thread:http://scn.sap.com/thread/3621086
A: Key Figures must be loaded and the granularity given by the base planning levels (attributes marked as Root in the planning level). If data is not available at this level, then it should be transformed before sending it to IBP.
Example: Shipments are available on weekly basis. Before sending them into IBP it is required to aggregate the values for the weeks that fall within same month. First you would need to convert weeks to month, then group by month and aggregate shipments qty.
For Master Data load you will have to map all attributes marked as Key or Required.
Each IBP table has a column named “FILENAME”. This column needs to be mapped to a constant that contains the target table name. This name needs to be enclosed within single quotes as it is a constant (e.g. ‘SOPMD_STAG_SM1CUSTOMER’)
A: Based on the business need, there are several ways:
By using “ABAP Aggregation” or “Aggregation” transform with a group by on key columns and use aggregation function in others (e.g. max(date), sum(quantity), …) By selecting the checkbox “Select Distinct Rows” on the filter tab of your Query transform (in case the records are identical in all fields you select)
A: HCI cannot use different system sources in one task, but allows lookup in a datastore that is not the source datastore.
A: Number of tables in the “Input Data” minus 1 is the number of joins you can do in the dataflow.
A: When joining multiple tables, HCI will generate an ABAP program (for ERP) or a SQL statement (for databases) so that the processing of the joins is pushed to the source. So performance depends on your source system, not on HCI. If you would join files it's a bit more tricky because HCI-DS can't push down this and needs to do the join in memory on the Agent machine. So for files, HCI-DS recommends NOT to join large files.
Example is…You want to load ID + attribute 1, 2 & 3 with one batch, next you want to load the same IDs with attribute 4, 5 &6. Will the end result in IBP be that they see all attributed for the loaded IDs?
A: Yes, this is supported.
A: Yes, that is possible. In the filter condition, you would use the sysdate() function to get the current date, and subtract x months to get the start date.
A: The Target Query transform must be the final transform in the data flow. The columns in the Output pane reflect the schema for the target object.
A: In the Data Flow view, actions are periodically auto-saved so your interim changes are retained. However, Join condition information must be specifically saved by clicking the Save button. Note No rollback or history available. Before you make significant changes, you want to use Replicate to save a copy of your data flow.
A: Automating data loads is done by scheduling the tasks with the built-in scheduler in HCI. E.g. you can schedule daily or weekly uploads.
A: This can be done via HCI-DS UI via the "Run now" button (instead of using the scheduler).
A: Yes, HCI tasks can be started via a webservices call. So if you have an external tool you can trigger a webservice - it can start an HCI task.
A: Yes, variables are supported and can be set at execution time.
A: Yes, what can be done is to schedule the task every Sunday, but in the pre-load script do some checks and if not the last Sunday of the month terminate execution. The code should be something like below:
IF (( last_date(sysdate()) - sysdate() ) < 7)
Print('This is the last sunday of the month');
ELSE
Raise_Exception('TASK WILL NOT EXECUTE - not last Sunday of the month');
A: You only care about the final number into the Target Table. In the Monitor Log, it is the very last line where you see where the file was written to (your Target Table.) The rest of the information listed is internal to the DS engine used by the HCI-DS agent. If a job fails, what you care about is the error log and the trace log. Use those two logs to know if it failed on load (typically this will log JDBC error), or on post processing – IBP may return an error from the data upload stored procedure.
A: In the Monitor Log you don’t care. For example the value of STOP, means it loaded the data. Look at your trace and error logs to determine your next steps, not the Monitor Log.
A: The monitor log is refreshed every 10 seconds while the task is running. Click the Refresh button in the upper-right corner of the page to update the Trace Log and Error Log. Again show what the refresh icon looks like.
A: No, HCI cannot access Bex queries, so if the data is only available in Bex (e.g. as calculated key figures), you would need to export the data in some way and store in a table or file and let HCI access the table/file.
A: HCI can read the data from the DSO tables (via the ABAP layer, no database access needed.)
A: Yes, HCI can read the from custom Z tables (via the ABAP layer, no database access needed).
A: Yes, HCI supports the delta extractors from SAP Business Suite applications.
A: Write back is also possible with HCI-DS. HCI-DS can write back to a file or database table. Or call a BAPI in ERP/APO (enabled as a webservice) to load data back to ERPAPO.
A: There are 2 types of webservice calls: 1) An external app calling an HCI webservice to start a task -> the agent is not involved here, WS call is directly to the HCI server. 2) HCI doing a webservice call to load (or extract) data -> in this case it is the agent that does the call.
A: Data exports are supported by HCI-DS. HCI-DS can read from the IBP calculation views for key figures or attribute views for master data, and can write the on-premise system (via file or Webservices).
A: No, your task writes to IBP staging tables only. After the stage tables are loaded, HCI task calls the IBP stored procedure. This procedure reads the data loaded into the IBP staging tables, validates the data, and if data passes the validations, it writes them to the IBP core tables, which have a structure that’s different from th core tables.
A: For IBP, the use case is batch/scheduled uploads of data, so only the HCI-DS component is enabled to load data into IBP.
A: No. HCI-DS has 2 adapters, created by the HCI dev team: one for SuccessFactors, one for OData. There is currently no framework to plugin additional adapters.
A: HCI-DS is the only system-to-system integration tool that can load directly into the IBP staging tables (because HCI-DS is physically installed in the same datacenter as IBP).
A: For on-premise IBP, on-premise ETL tools like SAP Data Services can be used.
A: Yes, on-premise Data Services or any other ETL tool need to go via files or another means to stage data (e.g. a database table). Next HCI-DS is used to read the file/stage table and map to IBP. All complex data processing in this case can be done in the on-premise ETL tool, HCI-DS is only used for the final mapping to the IBP tables
A: No. Your session will automatically time out. This feature is to protect the security of your data.
A: Go to http://service.sap.com/support/ Component LOD-HCI-DS.
Hi All,
Could you please let me know how to install WEB UI , HCI and IBP in my local PC. I want to use IBP in my system. Please give the steps and suggestion to use them.
Thanks,
Venu
Dear All,
Pls. let me know if there is any book from SAP Press on the following:
- SAP IBP for Sales & Operations(Powered by HANA)
If there is any book, kindly let me know the book & price details. And online store details.
Thank you.
Regards
Peri
The main user interface for SAP Integrated Business Planning is Microsoft Excel using a special Excel Add-In provided with the product. In this article I want to explore if and why this interface will satisfy the needs of planners. Let’s start by having a look at where spreadsheets originated from, and then what planners need from the tools that support them.
The history of the spreadsheet
I've been around long enough to remember a world without electronic spreadsheets – a world that instead either involved pens, paper and calculators or punched cards, a mainframe and reams of printed output. In my first career as a Mechanical and Manufacturing Systems Engineer working for Dunlop, Chloride and Lucas, I had what in retrospect was the privilege of witnessing the birth of the personal computer and the early PC spreadsheet applications such as VisiCalc, SuperCalc and Lotus 1-2-3. It is also worth pointing out that at that time in the mid 1980’s, I had a DEC micro-computer on my desk where the computer was contained inside the VDU (a screen to youngsters) and the operating system, application and data were all held in RAM. Said computer was used to control manufacturing machines in real time. So some concepts are perhaps not so new!
Some people are under the misapprehension that spreadsheets arrived with the PC, whereas they actually originate from the world of accountancy. In printed media the word "spread" means a newspaper or magazine article that covers two facing pages, extends across the fold and therefore treats the two pages as a single large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the layout used for accounting ledgers—having columns for expense categories across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the value of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect —which were, traditionally, a "spread" across facing pages of a bound ledger ruled into rows and columns in that format. To learn more on the history of spreadsheets see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet
Figure 2: Accounting Analysis Pad with Calculator!
What is important for planners?
During my earlier career mentioned above, I also had a long spell where I was responsible for the planning of production and the larger supply chain of a high tech battery. From my own experience and having seen other planners working there are a few key things that planners need from the tools they use:
Figure 3: The Integrated Business Planning Cycle (c) Olivehorse 2016
I should also clarify the term ‘planners’ when used in the context of IBP. Unlike APO which is a purely Supply Chain solution SAP IBP is not. One of the core aims of Integrated Business Planning – as the process defined by the Oliver Wight organisation – is that it is a single, consistent, plan for the whole organisation. For those familiar with the process you will know that the steps described in the figure above involve input from Marketing, Sales, Demand Planning, Supply and Logistics, Finance and Executives. All these roles in the organisation all need to use the tool that supports the process.
A Quick Look at the Excel Add-In
Some of you may not have seen the IBP Excel Add-In, so I have included some scree-shots to give you a flavour. The first shown in Figure 4 is of the Excel menu ribbon that appears once you have installed the Add-In, along with some labels to give you an idea of what each section does:
Figure 4: Menu ribbon for the SAP IBP Excel Add-In
What the user sees is dependent on their authorisations so you can limit their actions to suit their role.
Figure 5 shows an example of IBP via the Excel Add-In, and is intended to allow sales planners to update the sales forecast. In this view, although the base level of the data is customer and product, it is being displayed at a higher level of product colour as well as using Distribution Channel to group the customers. In this view there are both display only and editable key figures, for example Statistical Forecast Qty (IBP) and Sales Fcst Qty Adj – Value respectively. Some of the key figures such as Sales Forecast Qty – Last Month are stored persistently in HANA while several others including the Sales Forecast Qty and Sales Revenue are calculated on the fly in IBP from the base level of all the key figures required in its calculation if required. This is done every time the user saves or chooses <Simulate>.
Figure 5: Example IBP View
I deliberately hid part of the view for the previous figure in order to simplify it. This view also includes a chart which is simply an Excel Chart driven from the IBP data below via a hidden sheet. You can use the controls on the left to slice and dice the data and choose which key figures to display. As it’s an Excel object you can change the format as for any normal Excel Chart.
Figure 6: Chart incorporated in the View
So how does the IBP Excel Add-In match up to these requirements I presented earlier? Let’s consider them one at a time:
Speed & responsiveness
In IBP most of the work in extracting and calculating the data the user wants to see is of course performed in SAP HANA. If you don’t already understand why HANA is so fast for these kind of calculations, you must have been hiding under a rock for the last few years. I strongly recommend reading Hasso Plattner’s original papers and taking some of the openSAP MOOC courses on the subject.
Coupled with this our laptops/desktops are now very powerful multi-core machines in their own right – running a very mature product in Excel with a lot of investment over the decades to optimise performance.
Of course there are always things that can negatively impact performance and although spelt out in detail in Note 2153455 they can be summarised as follows:
Don’t be greedy: Be sensible about the number of cells (rows x columns) returned and/or updated. The more cells the more data transferred across the network and the more work for Excel. As a guide SAP indicate you should keep below around 2000 rows x 24 columns. If your aim is to extract the data for reporting somewhere else HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) is much more suited to that.
Control the Work Excel has to do: Conditional formatting and local calculations are all possible but Excel will need to run them every refresh. If not sure do some tests.
I took some timings for a productive system and for a view with 80 key figures x 24 months the data refreshed in 5 seconds – not bad if you remember this data is a result of aggregating and calculating values for the 10000’s of combinations at base level.
Flexibility
We all know that Excel is itself a flexible tool and IBP does impose some restrictions. However here are some cool things you can do with the Add-In:
Figure 7: Example of a Local Member calculation
Figure 8: Conditional Formatting in a View
Figure 9: Controls used to change data in a view
Detail
A view can show the data by one or more of the attributes(similar to characteristics for those familiar with APO/BW) in the planning level for the key figure. Data held at different levels can also be displayed in the same view. Users can easily change the attributes themselves on the fly. I was doing that with a customer this afternoon where we started at country level and ended right down in profit centres and product groups.
What is also sometimes done is, as you can have multiple views in one workbook, to have one view at an aggregated level and another at a more detailed level – but having fewer key figures.
What-if
To me it is the ability to do simulations on the fly in a practical time-scale that differentiate IBP from APO and other products. Here are key things to know regarding what-ifs in IBP:
Ease of Use
The great thing about using Excel as the basis is that it must be one of the most widely known software products in the world – especially amongst the finance and supply planning communities. It is fairly intuitive and users can be up and using Excel with the Add-In in hours – with virtually no training.
Integrated
The data for IBP, by definition, comes from multiple other systems whether it is ECC, APO, BPC or non-SAP systems. Interfacing via SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) is straightforward compared to BW. The good thing about IBP is that as soon as HCI has loaded the data it can be seen in the Excel view when you open or refresh the view – there are no other jobs required to load to ODS or Info Cubes or to index or aggregate the data.
Of course it works the other way as well. Comma Separated Variable (.csv) format is quite common as portable file exchange format and you can save the views as .csv for loading into another tool.
Offline Use
With IBP you can open a View – it will refresh the data and you can then log off and continue to edit the values while sitting on a train for example. When you are next on-line, just login and save the data!
Sharing Results
It is very easy to share Excel workbooks by email; as my inbox will testify! However, the problem is that once shared they tend to be modified by the recipient who then shares it on and you end up with N! versions. The beauty of IBP is that you can share Excel workbooks containing views with other users. The key figure data is persisted in HANA of course but there can be data local to the workbook as well.
Conclusions
I have been using the IBP Excel Add-In almost every day for the last 6 months, both in productive environments at customers and for producing our own demos and proof of concepts. As I hope I have shown above it has many features that will please planners from all areas of a business and is a huge improvement over both the planning books in APO and BEx queries.
Steve Rampton, IBP Practice Lead
Hello,
I created a Custom Alert definition and while saving, I could see a duplicate also created. I am neither able to delete nor modify the alert(s) created. I tried to subscribe the alert but unable to accept, probably because of the duplicate. Anyway to delete the duplicates?
We are in "IBP 4.0 Support Pack 2 Patch 4".
Thanks,
Uthaman
In the recent SAP Integrated Business Planning 6.1 release, the inventory application has added a new and exciting innovation to provide a systematic approach for the calculation of forecast error. Forecast error is one of the key inputs into safety stock planning. We have introduced a new forecast error calculation operator.
Benefits:
Link to innovation: https://goo.gl/XMmUkk
Make sure that you expand the Product Features section and download the presentation titled "FORECAST ERROR" for fundamentals, details and screenshots.
The inventory applications sample planning area SAP3 has been updated to include the additional key figures and master data. If you have an existing planning area that is not copied from the SAP3 planning area in Release 6.1, please follow the steps in the above presentation.
Below is one of the questions and an answer related to integrating data from ECC Z tables into IBP using HCI.
Is there an option to create custom(Z) tables inside IBP? If answer is NO, then where would HCI store this data that is extracted from ECC Z tables.
A: Yes, HCI can read the from custom Z tables (via the ABAP layer, no database access needed).
Hi,
Is there a link of repository where we can find all the documents related to the configuration, enhancements of SAP IBP.
Thanks,
Rohit Arora
Dear experts,
I tried for the first time to utilize a planning level without time period profile (PRODCUST in comparison to PERPRODCUST) to perform a calculation similar as explained in this older post (Average value of next 3 periods).
As explained in the post, I performed the following steps:
Assume PERPRODCUST is the base planning level and monthly time granularity
1. KF1@ PERPRODCUST = IF ((PERIODID - $$PERIODIDCU$$ <= 2) and (PERIODID - $$PERIODIDCU$$ >=0) , CONSDEMANDQTY,null)
Extract the values for Current Month, M+1 and M+2
2. Add additional calculation. This will sum up all the values for Current Month, M+1 and M+2
KF1@PRODCUST = SUM(KF1@ PERPRODCUST)
3.
a. Create a helper key figure HKF1@PRODCUST to calculate average
HKF1@ PRODCUST = (KF1@PRODCUST / 3)
b. Create helper key figure and pass input key figure with time dimensions for e.g. KF
DMDPLANQTY
This will put the average value in Current period.
HKF1@PERPRODCUST = IF ((PERIOIDID=$$PERIODIDCU$$), HKF1@ PRODCUST, null)
c. KF2@PERPRODCUST = HKF1@PERPRODCUST
I really like the concept of utilizing the planning level PRODCUST. However, in Step 3b where the Helper Key Figure created at level PRODCUST is transferred to planning level PERPRODCUST, I receive an error:
The planning level for the output key figure and the planning level for the input key figure must match in the calculation definition.
As the input key figure HKF1@PRODCUST does not have PER as required for the output key figure HKF1@PERPRODCUST, I understand why the error pops up. Is there a flaw in the calculation, or did I miss something? My general question would be how it is possible to transfer a value of a KF at a level PRODCUST back to KFs on level PERPRODCUST.
Best regards
Holger
How can i copy the Keyfigure (KF1) data of 2014 into the Keyfigure (KF2) for 2015 ?
Also, while creating the copy operator to copy the KF1 to KF2, what other intermediate KF is needed ?
Hi,
In my current project, we have the requirement to install the IBP add-on in French.
This creates errors in templates that were created in English (from the SAP provided templates).
I'm wondering what is required to translate a template to a different language.
I know the chart feeder will need to change as it is looking for columns with "Key Figure" in them and in french it's translated to "Indicateurs".
Anything else ? Can we have templates that would work in 2 languages ?
Thanks,
Marc
Hello,
How do we handle the disaggregation of Statforecast keyfigure in IBP ?
Normally this keyfigure should be in Non editable mode since this is system generated – when we have non editable keyfigure then there is no possibility of setting up a ‘Disaggregation mode ‘. This Keyfigure is in base planning level – Perprodloc.
I want to disaggregate to planning level Perprodloccus.
Thanks.
Hi All,
While evaluating the fit and benefits for an IBP-Inventory (IBP-I) implementation at customers I am often asked about Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and whether IBP-I can support it. In general the obvious answer is YES, IBP-I can certainly calculate an EOQ and consider it while generating invenory targets. But the real life implications of using both are a bit more complicated. The purpose of this blog is to explore this concept further and hopefully open a discussion on the nuances of using EOQ within IBP-I.
APICS defines EOQ as "a type of fixed order quantity model that determines the amount of an item to be purchased or manufactured at one time." The basic premise is to balance costs on a a production or ordering schedule where small frequent batches incur a fixed order or changeover cost and large batches have excess inventory carry costs. Borrowing from APICS again we see the basic EOQ formula to be:
where:
Q* = Economic Order Quantity
D = Annual Demand
K = Ordering Cost (Or changeover / setup costs)
h = inventory holding cost per unit
This formula is great due to its simplicity and ease of use. It does however make some simplifying assumptions about a known static demand that make it less than optimal for real world situations. There are methods for expanding upon this basic EOQ formula to account for these assumptions but that is not in scope of this discussion.
We can easily configure this formula in a calculated key figure in the standard IBP configuration capabilities. The discussion on the right sources for ordering costs and holding rate will vary by industry and company, but that should be part of any standard initial blueprinting project. ***Side comment here: In my experiences it is critical to ensure that the business side of the company is involved and makes the final decisions for inputs. IT can support this process, but getting the planners to adopt the final outputs require buy-in on the input side.
Once we have an EOQ calculated, the question is what impact will it have on IBP-I? The goal of IBP-I in an end to end multi-stage optimization is to minimize the inventory cost across the entire supply chain. Won't this immediately override all the work that the EOQ has done in the balancing act? The answer is no. EOQ is considering inventory at a single location with a single cost. However, we know that in the real world the cost of inventory increases as it flows through the supply chain. This is due to reasons such as value add, transportation costs and less flexibility in demand it can fulfill (i.e. opposite of postponement). Therefore, IBP-I has a much more comprehensive view of the inventory challenge. Things like differing costs, supply uncertainy and forecast error are just a couple of the examples of complexity that IBP-I was designed to handle.
Does that mean an EOQ is worthless within IBP-I? The answer again is no. IBP-I certainly needs to take into account the manufacturing or ordering costs as it does the inventory cost minimization. To account for this, I've recommended to customers that EOQ should be input to IBP-I as a minimum lot size. IBP-I will then take these minimum orders as a constraint and make sure to recommend an inventory target that takes the ordering / setup into consideration.
To summarize, EOQ and IBP-I certainly have some overlapping capabilities and functionalitites but that doesn't mean one is right and the other is wrong. It is definitely possible to use both concepts in IBP-I and get value from each of them.
What are your thoughts on using EOQ in IBP-I and/or inventory planning in general? Is there enough room in the inventory planning process for competing algorithms?
Hi All,
We are using Statistical forecast “Moving average” for 3 months
It is not considering negative values
| M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 |
Actuals | -100 | 200 | 200 |
| |
Expected |
|
|
| 100 | 100 |
Actual output |
|
|
| 133.33 | 133.3 |
Can anyone let us know if there is any possibility to consider negative values in past.
Thanks.
Regards,
Aditya
Join us and learn more about SAP Integrated Business Planning through the numerous events, customer and product webinars we are offering this year.
Upcoming Events and Webinars in 2016
| Date | Event Type | Location | Focus | Title & URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2016 | Online | Global | IBP | |
| 5 April 2016 | Online | Global | IBP | |
7 April 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Irvine | IBP | |
| 8 April 2016 | Online | Global | IBP | WEBINAR: Getting Started: SAP IBP Rapid-deployment Solution |
15 April 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Newtown Square | IBP | |
| 20 April 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | San Francisco | IBP | High-Tech Supply & Demand Summit |
| 21 April 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Waldorf | IBP | Supply Chain Control Tower Customer Roundtable |
| 1-3 May 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Chicago | e-SCM | SCOPE Supply Chain Conference |
| 3 May 2016 | Online | Global | IBP | |
| 4-5 May 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Turkey | e-SCM | APICS - Integrated Supply Chain Planning - Turkey |
| 10 May 2016 | Online | Global | IBP | SAP IBP Partner/Sales Enablement Webinar Series: SAP Integrated Business Planning for response and supply (focus on Response Management) |
| 12 May 2016 | Online | Global | IBP | |
| 17-19. May 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Phoeniz, AZ | e-SCM | Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference |
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| 22-24. June 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Vienna | e-SCM | SAP Insider |
| 16-17. June 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Chicago | IBP | IBF/APICS - Best of the Best S&OP Conference |
| 12-15 Sep. 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Houston, TX | e-SCM | Best Practices for Oil and Gas |
| 21-22. Sep. 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Boston | IBP | S&OP Innovation Summit |
| Oct 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | EMEA | e-SCM | TA Cook Supply Chain - EMEA |
| Oct. 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Schenzen | e-SCM | SAP Forum - Schenzen |
| 16-18 Oct. 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Barcelona | e-SCM | SCM World Live - Europe |
| 16-17 Nov. 2016 | Face-to-Face Event | Chicago | IBP | Chief Supply Chain Officer and Inventory Optimization Summit |
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This document describes how to download the SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Excel Add-On (a.k.a. Add-In) from the SAP Software Download Center (SDC).
Updated: March 2016
Note: Screen shots above show Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11.
For information on supported configurations and necessary prerequisites for the IBP Excel Add-On, please see SAP Note 2135948.
Hi,
I am new to the SAP IBP and have a brief idea of SAP APO (SNP) as I was in L2 Support for SNP and I want to pursue my career in IBP.
Can you please tell me is there any pre-requisite to learn IBP (S&OP) and I want to be in SAP IBP Implementation.
Thanks,
NC
Dear Experts,
Related to IBP 5.0 SP08....Is it possible to enable change history for master data? I know it is possible for KF but not sure about Master data.
Thanks,
Krishna
Hi,
I have a calculation that that selects the higher value between 2 KF.
The calculation works only if both KF are initialized, I would like for it to work even if I have only a value in one KF.
Is this possible ?
Do you have tricks to initialize a KF without have to actually load data in it ?
Here is my calculation:
IF( "KAMLIFTCENTSOFF@PERPRODPOSPROMO" - "KAMLIFTCENTSOFFW1@PERPRODPOSPROMO1" > 0 , "KAMLIFTCENTSOFF@PERPRODPOSPROMO" , "KAMLIFTCENTSOFFW1@PERPRODPOSPROMO1" )
Here is the Screen of the Planning View (I want the red areas to be calculated):
