New standard interfaces for SCV Events entity

Demand Planning content is extended to add standard interfaces (and macros) to populate the existing events measures with historical and future events from the SCV entity.

These new interface services are added:

  • DPLS - SCV - Import Event Profile1; populating measure Events (DPLS_EVENTPROFILE)
  • DPLS - SCV - Import Event Profile2; populating measure Events 2 (DPLS_EVENTPROFILE2)
  • DPLS - SCV - Import Event Profile3; populating measure Events 3 (DPLS_EVENTPROFILE3)

The imported event_type from SCV, linked to each interface service and measure, is controlled through three new application variables:

  • dpls_external_events_type (External Events Type)
  • dpls_external_events2_type (External Events 2 Type)
  • dpls_external_events3_type (External Events 3 Type)

All three application variables default to empty, since there are no predetermined event types. These can be set by implementation to match the three most prominent types of event populated in SCV, or those to be viewed in Demand Planning and/or available to the statistical forecast engines.

This macro is added to run the new interfaces:

  • Import external Event Profiles from SCV (DPLS_Import Events SCV), with these steps:
    1. Clear Events measure
    2. Clear Events 2 measure
    3. DPLS - SCV - Import Event Profile1
    4. DPLS - SCV - Import Event Profile2
    5. DPLS - SCV - Import Event Profile3

Each step is conditionally run only where the corresponding application variable for that type is populated.

New SCV hierarchy table links are added for the default Demand Planning item and location hierarchy:

  • DPLS_BASE_ITEM_SC_EVENT
  • DPLS_BASE_LOCATION_SC_EVENT
The new macro to import external Events Profiles from SCV is included in the standard demand import macro:
  • DPLS_Import Demand Plan (SCV)

It is run for the specific condition: '%app_var_dpls_use_external_events%' == '1'.

This corresponding new application variable is added:

  • dpls_use_external_events (Use imported Events from external source in Demand). Default: 0 (off)
Note: 
  • This feature is available after loading the demand planning template (dpls.zip) for this version. The interfaces to load events can be enabled by populating the value of one of the three external event types' application variables to an event_type to load from SCV and updating application variable: dpls_use_external_events = 1.
  • A new role or privilege is not required to access this feature.