SAP IBP Frozen Horizon in Working Days

[saxos]

Hi Experts,

my client is using the TS-Optimizer with freeze horizon (PFREEHORIZON, TFREEZEHORIZON) and wants to use the frozen horizon length in days like in S/4. S/4 calculates the FH-length in working days, respecting the maintained calender with weekends, holidays and so on. IBP calculates the days devided by 7.

In OBP with R&S you have different options how IBP consumes the Frozen Horizon length. You can chose for example "working days", which would be correct.

Is it somehow possible to have the length of the Frozen Horizon in Working days, not calendar in the TS-Optimizer?

Example:

Frozen Horizon: 10

CW01: 5 Working days

CW02: 0 Working days - production site is closed due to holidays

CW03: 5 Working days

IBP would devide 10/7 resulting in 1.42 periods of frozen horizon.

The requirement is however to respect the weekends and holidays, resulting in 3 periods of frozen horizon (CW01 - CW03)

They're closing their production for example every summer for 2-3 weeks.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve this avoiding a custom enhancement in the extraction?

Thanks for your advice!

[guglanigaurav1987]

Hello Samuel,

Assuming you do not want to write an enhancement either in the connected ERP system or in the CI-DS, I suggest writing a custom calculation in your planning area to implement the calculation you have explained above.

You can copy the final result to your frozen horizon attribute using 'The ABC-XYZ Segmentation Operator'.

In that operator, you will have to hardcode the target values in Freeze Horizon but I believe that should be fine as long as you have a finite set of values for your finite horizon.

If you don't want to hardcode output values in the ABC-XYZ operator, then the other option is to use a CI-DS flow which will read your key figure value and write the same to the freeze horizon attribute.

Thanks

Gaurav