Aggregated planningIn Enterprise Planning, you can use carry out planning at various levels of aggregation: from general product groups to individual products. Moreover, you can exchange data between these levels through aggregation relationships:
This aggregation concept has several applications:
The following examples demonstrate the use of aggregation relationships: Example: standard product-family structure A family of bikes has two child items: red bikes and blue bikes. The forecast is made by color, and then aggregated to the family level to get an overview of the total forecast. Example: aggregation through a distribution
structure You have a manufacturing site M1 with two distribution centers (DC1 and DC2) that each make a forecast: M1 can then aggregate the forecast from DC1 and DC2 to get an overall forecast. Example: Multisite aggregation You have five sites:
The forecast can be aggregated from S1 and S2 to CHQ. A production plan is established centrally. This production plan can then be disaggregated to the production sites. Types of (dis)aggregated data As a rule, you can aggregate and/or disaggregate the following types of data:
LN automatically aggregates goods-flow data for a family item to plan items with Family item type. LN cannot disaggregate these data. How to set up aggregation relationships You can manually define aggregation relationships in the Aggregation Relationships (cprpd3110m000) session, or let LN create aggregation relationships between a specific family item and an entire range of sub-items in the Generate Aggregation Relationships (cprpd3211m000) session. You can define aggregation relationships between items (or families) on any plan level. This provides a lot of flexibility:
Aggregation from channel master plans to item master
plan If you want to aggregate data from one or more channel master plans to the corresponding item master plan, you need not define aggregation relationships for this. You can use the Aggregate Channel to Item Master Plan (cpdsp5210m000) session to carry out this type of aggregation directly.
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