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Scenario Description

The Demand Planning business scenario allows you to interactively create demand forecasts in rolling time periods(for example months) using different forecasting methods. You then release the demand forecasts to supply planning.You typically use demand planning to plan forecast demand in a midterm or long-term planning horizon for the Make-to-Stock and Procure-to-Pay (Stock) business scenarios.Before starting a new periodic forecast for a demand plan that already exists, you must consider potential changes,such as new products, phased out products, and planning horizons. If necessary, you can set up a new demand plan.

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Process Description

The Initiating Demand Planning business process provides you with all the preparation steps required to enable yourdemand planning process. It provides you with the basis for correct and periodic demand planning.

Please note, that the demo might only show parts of the overall process step Initiating Demand Planning.

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(1) You can create a new demand plan using the work center.

(2) Choose the view.

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(3) To open a new demand plan, click .

(4) Enter an appropriate text in the Demand Plan Description field, for example Forecast 2011 - 1.

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The planning mode enables you to plan on a single planning level with thepossibility of selecting products with different units of measure (UoM). If you haveselected multi-level planning, you must enter a unit of measure for the demandplan in the Demand Plan UoM field.

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(6) To enable Statistical Forecasting, click Yes.

(7) Click to continue.

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(8) In the Select Planning Criteria step select appropriate characteristics for the planning levels and for the productfilter.

Click to continue.

(9) At this stage you manually add products to the scope of your plan. Click to add a product.Alternatively, you can add large numbers of products by clicking Extend by Selection.

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(10) To enter the product ID, click the Open Value Selection iconin the Product ID column.

(11) EnterP100405 in the Find Field and click on .

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(13) Select Product ID .

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(14) Open the Planning Area ID selection menu.

(15) Select Almika Heating Cleveland.

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(16) When you have finished adding a product, click to continue.

(17) The forecasting model Average is already selected by default. Select the forecasting model forthe products that are in the scope of your plan.

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(18) Click to move the forecasting model that you selected to the Forecasting ModelVariants table.

(19) When you have finished selecting the forecasting models, click to continue.

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(20) In the Release Horizon field, enter a time period of 3 months.

(21)

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(24) In the Confirmation step of the guided activity, the system displays a success message that the demand plan is

saved. Click .

(25) To view your newly created demand plan for the preparation step, click .

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You only need to use the preparation process for a new or changed (for example,time horizons, demand plan scope) demand plan.At all other times the rolling process is used to update actuals at the start of eachplanning period.

(26) Select the row containing your newly created demand plan with the Demand Plan ID .

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(27) Click .

(28) Click to open the Prepare quick activity.

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(29) Select the Copy Actuals into Final Actuals check box.

(30) Click to save your demand plan.

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The system displays a success message that the changes to the demand planhave been saved.

(31) Click .

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Process Description

The Planning Demand business process allows you to create and maintain forecasts in a consistent hierarchy ofdifferent planning levels. It collects historical data by product to compute forecasts based on a selection of forecastingmodels. It also supports the execution of interactive periodic forecast demand planning, and handover of the forecastdemand to supply planning.