Support for loading demand without Demand Planning

The standard process for initializing the IBP demand plan assumed forecasts are loaded from the Demand Planning application. This release improves the standard process to import an external demand from SC_DEMAND.

These interfaces are added:

  • SOP - SCV - Import Demand Future Measures (SC_DEMAND)
  • SOP - SCV - Import Demand Previous Published Future Measures (SC_DEMAND)

This macro is updated to include the new interfaces:

  • Xpress - Import Demand Plan - SCV

This application variable is added to control loading demand from SC_DEMAND_PLAN_AGGR or SC_DEMAND:

  • scv_sop_demand_table_to_use. Default value: SC_DEMAND_PLAN_AGGR

Macro steps to execute the new interfaces are conditionally executed based on the condition: 'scv_sop_demand_table_to_use' == 'SC_DEMAND'. Conditions also added to existing macro steps for interfaces based on SC_DEMAND_PLAN_AGGR.

These additional app variables added for plan_type and plan_version:

  • statistical_forecast_plan_type. Default value: Statistical Forecast
  • statistical_forecast_plan_version. Default value: Current

These are copies of application variables in other templates (dpls.zip, apsco.zip and forecastconsumption.zip).

Note: This feature is available after loading the IBP template (xpress.zip) for this release and enabled after updating the application variable with an override value, or cycle-level value, SC_DEMAND. A new role or privilege is not required to access this feature.