Planning Area groups planning characteristics and key figures and helps in defining the

scope of planning. In Demand Planning (DP), we can define new characteristics as per
business requirement but planning area that is used for SNP can only contain the
standard SNP characteristics.
In SNP, SAP provides list of standard planning areas like 9ASNP02, 9ASNP03, 9ASNP04
etc. As per business requirement, one can create a custom planning area and thereby
planning books/data views based on that for subsequent planning activities.
This document will give an overview of the planning area and planning book/data view
configuration for Supply Network Planning (SNP).

Step 1: Create New SNP Planning Area

Transaction /SAPAPO/MSDP_ADMIN
Navigation Supply Network Planning > Environment > Current Settings
>Administration of Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning
9ASNP02 is a Standard planning area without time series. If we want to store own time
series key figure in SNP then we can copy the standard SNP Planning Area 9ASNP02 and
then add required time series key figure to it.
Here we select the planning Area 9ASNP02 select copy and give the name of our
planning area in To Planning Area. This step will create the new planning area and it
will be in inactive status initially.

Step 2: Create Time Bucket Profile

Transaction /SAPAPO/TR30
Navigation Supply Network Planning > Environment > Current Settings > Maintain
Time Bucket Profiles for Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning
Time bucket profile basically helps in defining the periodicities that will be used in
planning. This is further assigned to Planning Book/Data View

Step 3A> Create Planning Book

Transaction /SAPAPO/SDP8B
Navigation Demand Planning > Environment > Current Settings > Define Planning
Book
The planning book is always based on a unique planning area that specifies
characteristics and key figures. The planning book defines a pre-selection of
characteristics and key figures of the planning area that can be used in the data views.
Here we will copy the standard planning book 9ASNP94 with view SNP94 (1). Initially
the new planning book will refer to the standard delivered planning area 9ASNP02 and
thus we have to change this assignment consequently.
On creation, will get a message that copies macros are deactivated so we need to
manually activate them

In the Data View Tab modify name of Custom data view which was created and assign
the Time Bucket profile created in previous step.
The default start of the planning horizon is the current day. We can move the start by
entering a fixed date or by shifting
After this, click on Complete button and planning book/data view is succesfully created.
Step 3B> Macro Activation
Transaction /SAPAPO/ADVM
Navigation Demand Planning > Environment > Current Settings > Macro Workbench
Select the planning book view which has been created and Press the <Generate Macros
(Shift + F2)> pushbutton.

Step 3C> Linking Planning Area to Planning Book

Steps to be followed here

In SE11, go to table /SAPAPO/PBMVW. This is the table which defines Relationship

between planning area and planning book

In the field MVIEW, we need to enter the newly created planning book

Change the PAREANAME from 9ASNP02 to the name of our own planning area

Save the changes and exit

Now we can see that the planning book created is assigned to the custom planning area
and not the standard SAP planning area

Step 4: Creation of Time Stream

Navigation Supply Network Planning > Environment > Current Settings > Maintain
Planning Calendar (Time Stream)
This time stream will be linked to all locations as production, storage location, and
production calendars. This time stream will also be used to assign it to Storage Bucket
profile which will be subsequently used in planning area.
Please note that the horizon for the Time Stream should not be smaller than the Storage
Bucket Profile.
Step 5: Creation of Storage Bucket Profile
Transaction -> /SAPAPO/TR32
Navigation Supply Network Planning > Environment > Current Settings
> Periodicities for Planning Area
Storage Bucket profile helps in defining how the data would be saved in Live cache.
Note If the planning area we are using is purely an order planning area, the storage
buckets profile does not come into play
Step 6: Assign Storage Bucket Profile to Planning Area and Initialize Planning
Area

Transaction /SAPAPO/MSDP_ADMIN
Navigation Supply Network Planning > Environment > Current Settings
>Administration of Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning

The newly created planning area needs to be linked to a planning version before it can
be used. We can either assign the planning area to Active Version (000) or any other
test/simulation version also as per requirement.

From above, we can see the planning area is succesfully initialized (Green) and
subsequently other master objects and planning activities can be carried out.
In Interactive planning book, we can see the Key figures assigned to New Created
Planning Book with defined time buckets.
Note For subsequent planning activities and as per business requirement, multiple
data views can be created with required key figures. Also, new time series key figures
can be created such as calculations or delete existing key figures that are not required
from the planning area and planning book.