The existing application for sales planning in SAP BW-IP is enhanced to include additional functions relating to long-term planning. These include the option of a monthly split for plan versions, formatting data and transferring it to SAP R/3 for MRP, and reporting for purchasing and sales and distribution at the component level (bill of material).
Supplement
In the current project, the data for the plan version selected by the user in the portal is broken down to the month level, compressed to meet the needs of the underlying ERP system, and transferred to ERP for an MRP run. Once this is complete, the data is retrieved again and incorporated back into the BW data pools across systems (regional –> global), before a report is created at the component level (bill of material). All technical project tasks on the BW side, from conceptual design, through modeling and implementation, to testing, authorizations and process control, are carried out by PTA.
Subject description
Sales-controlled sales planning is based on a combination of scheduled materials/quantities/probabilities from a feeder system with figures from the operational ERP system (sales/orders) in order to maintain planning over a period starting in the current year and stretching several years into the future. The key figures are determined for individual regions. The data is merged in the global SAP BW.