DP realignment using Infocube

created by Radhakrishnan G K on Apr 18, 2012 4:52 AM, last modified

by Radhakrishnan G K on Apr 19, 2012 7:41 PM
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Applies to:
Industries which have implemented SAP SCM-Demand planning (Release version
from 4.1).
Summary
These documents describe step by step procedure of APO-DP realignment by using
info-cube and its advantages.
Author: G.K.Radhakrishnan
Company: Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
Created on:18 April 2012
Author Bio

G.K.Radhakrishnan, is working as a SAP APO-DP consultant in Accenture has a

consulting experience of more than two years with a domain experience of 7years in
supply chain.
DP realignment is a option to adjust data in planning area data as per business
scenarios like changes in product hierarchy or sales hierarchy or a new product
replacing old one. The main advantage of realignment over copy is that realignment
creates the target CVC's if they are not available in the POS.
Let us consider a master planning object structure TEST_POS as shown below.
(/sapapo/msdp_admin)

A planning area TEST_PA is created on the TEST_POS

The planning area is initialized for 000 version.

The POS has two CVC's one each for product P1 and P2.

Before realignment
As seen in the planning book ,sales history is available with the old product P1.But to
generate the statistical forecast ,it will advisable to move all the sales history of Product
P1 to product P2..

T-code for realignment :/sapapo/rlgcopy

Click on Create/ Change Table to select the characteristics for realignment .This is a
one time activity .Once the realignment table is created ,click on Maintain entries tab.

Delete Source option will result in deletion of source CVC's

Copy factor can be used to make changes in the effect of realignment .The default
copy factor is 100 which is for 1:1 copy of data.
Business Scenario:
If a new product is expected to sell about half of the old product then the factor is
changed to 50.
Copy logic: Copy logic=M is for overwrite the existing destination CVC data with
source CVC data and Copy logic=A is for adding the existing destination CVC data
with source CVC data.
Business Scenario:
If a company has two similar products P1,P2 and P1 is being discontinued,then Copy
logic =A can be used.This is due to the fact that sales of the discontinued product will be
compensated by increased sales of P2
Click on save and then the realignment step will be ready for execution.

After that click execute in the realignment main screen

As seen in the screen shot realignment could not be executed due to locking .When
users are work in the edit mode planning book then POS gets locked.
This happens in large implementations when users are working in different time
zones.So to execute the realignment time window needs to be given by business.
After all the users are out of planning book or change to display mode realignment can
be executed and same is visible in the logs shown below.

As show below ,sales history has been copied to destination product P2.

To address the issue of locking info-cube realignment can be used .

The additional step of info-cube realignment is creation of planning area
extraction flow which is explained below.
Goto S&DP Administration (/sapapo/msdp_admin) and select planning area .Go to
change planning area.

Click on Data Extraction tools as shown

Click on Generate Data Source.Give the name of the data source .All the planning area
data sources will start with 9A.

Now select the fields for data selection and hide the ones that are not needed. Usually
proportional factors is not extracted from planning area.

Planning area data source will be generated as show below.

Click on Data backup

Give the name of the backup cube and info-area

Click No to exclude proportional factor.

Info-cube will be successfully activated as show below

Info-cube will be visible in the specified info-area in RSA1

Now the 9A data-source has to replicated as show below.

Data source needs to replicated either as BI7 data source or 3X data source

The below screen shots are for BI7 flow

If the data-source is inactive then activate the same.

Now transformations needs to be created from data source to the backup cube

Create DTP to load the data from PSA to backup info-cube

Create Info package to extract the data from planning area to PSA.

As shown below 254 records are extracted from planning area to PSA.

Execute the DTP to load the data from PSA to Info-cube.

To use the option of info-cube realignment ,click on choose info-cube and select the
backup cube PA1.

Finally all the steps of cube realignment can be automated with a process chain as
shown below.

The CVC Creation step in the process chain is needed as the realignment when
executed in the info-cube does not make any changes in the POS or planning area.
Also note that Delete Source option will not delete of source CVC's in the POS but
will make the data for source CVC's in backup cube to zero.

Related Content.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/61/7ade603472c447b0bb52d67391683
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http://scn.sap.com/thread/1667349
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1378372
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1516817
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A prasad Dec 21, 2012 9:01 AM
I could not able to see data source in RSA1.
What might be the problem
thanks
prasad
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Ashish Wadafale May 22, 2013 7:23 AM
Hi Radhakrishnan,
Very nice article. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Regards,
Ashish W.
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Will Foster Nov 11, 2013 10:57 PM
Question: Have you tried using the C_APO_RLG authorization object to control
access in the SAPAPO/RLGCOPY transaction? We have tried to leverage that
Auth Obj to limit peoples access to "execute" realignment, but it doesn't seem to
have any influence. It's like the auth obj is NOT getting called
Thanks,
Will
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Radhakrishnan G K Nov 13, 2013 5:58 AM (in response to Will Foster)
Hi Will

In most of the projects, realignment is carried out by support team and not
by end user as the impact is high and difficult to correct any mistakes.
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Will Foster Nov 13, 2013 4:26 PM (in response to Radhakrishnan
G K)
Radgk,
That is why we're trying to leverage the C_APO_RLG auth obj,
because we want to remove peoples ability to 'execute'
Realignment. We have given our users authorization to CREATE
realignment steps via a custom upload tool.
Interesting point about support executing all the realignment
steps. So in that scenario how to the users communicate the
realignment needs? Send an xls list with all the realignment steps
to support, then support uploads the values and executes
realignment?
Thanks for the information.
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Satish Waghmare Nov 13, 2013 10:31 PM (in response to
Will Foster)
Many Thanks Radgk for useful information. Keep it up
Hello Will
In my past few project I had prepared a Excel template to
be updated by Users with realignment step details and then
sent to Super User. And then Super User to review the
records from template and upload in Application
Server(AL11).
Using uploaded file in AL11, creation of realignment steps
and running of realignment will take place through a
background jobs.
This is not fully automated option, but it worked well with
few of my clients.
Thank you
Satish Waghmare