Situations

The Situations configuration screen lets you determine the situations you want highlighted in the Demand Planning workbench based on predefined or user-defined rules. This screen can be accessed from the Configuration menu. You must have the appropriate permission to view SCP Situations.

A list of existing situations is displayed on the Situation screen and are all enabled by default. You can select a situation to view the Situation details screen.

This information is displayed on the Situation details screen:

Name

Unique name of the situation.

Description

The description of the situation.

Display Name

The name to be displayed for the situation.

Note: If the value in this field is not specified, the application considers the Name field.

Type

The type of situation. Possible values:

• No Forecast
• Magnitude
• Value

Exception Value

The type of exception value stored when a situation is created for a Planning Entity (PE). Possible values:

• Percentage
• Count
• Value

Severity

The severity level of the situation. Possible values:

• High
• Medium
• Low
• Information

Generation Trigger

Determines if the situation is automatically calculated for a PE upon completion of an event. Possible values:

• Generate Forecast
• Tactical forecast generation
• Strategic forecast generation
• First forecast period change
• Net forecast changed

Enabled

Indicates whether the situation is active.

Note: 

• If this switch is enabled, the situation is created when the generation conditions are met.
• If this switch is disabled, the created situations are not removed from PEs. However, additional situations cannot be created.

The creation rule and the description for the selected situation are displayed in a grid at the bottom of the details screen. You can click the Edit option to modify the selected situation and the related creation rule parameters. See, Modifying a situation.