Why we need Time Aggregation Profile ?

[Former Member]

Hello team,

Greetings.

We can achieve multiple planning granularities (Day, Week, Month etc) through Global Configuration in the Excel Planning views.

- If we maintain all standard I/P and O/P Key figures at the Day planning Level, we could very well run the S&OP Optimizer at Day level and can view the results in multiple granularities in the excel planning view (Day, Week, Month).

Then why do we need Time Aggregation Profiles, if the same can be achieved through the above approach ?

Also please share the business significance, of pushing all the demand on MONDAY in every week through an example?

PLease help

Thanks

Venkat Deep K

[gurucharanscm · Accepted solution]

Hi Venkat -

If you are from APO background, you probably would be knowing what time bucket profile means and the kind of flexibility you have in 'viewing' the data in the data view. Your time bucket profile of APO in SNP view probably will be days for first two week, then weeks for the next two months and then in months thereafter - depicting the rough-cut planning.

While this is just for 'viewing' in APO, the time aggregation profile of IBP helps in 'planning' in that granularity as planning in days for far future periods will only intensify the performance and it's better to aggregate the periods to months as you go far into the future while you still prefer to plan in days / weeks in the near future. This's where the time aggregation profile comes handy for you in the time series optimizer.

Please however note of the technical implications it has on multiple key-figures - meaning, you need to understand how it affects the volume of the key-figure during the aggregation process, please do look here for more details on this.

Regards - Guru

[former_member310060 · Accepted solution]

Hi Guru,

can you help me on a similar question? I'm trying to set up my S&OP Optimizer together with the Time Aggregation Profile so that like you said, the planning for the nearest future (14 days) is done on daily level, then maybe in weeks for 4 weeks and then in month for the rest of the planning horizon. I'm using the SAPIBP1 Unified Planning Area, so planning KF are stored on weekly buckets. Do I need to change the planning level for all those KF to daily? Right now when I'm trying to set up the time aggregation profile for daily - weekly - montly and assign that to my S&OP Operator Profile, I'm facing the error: "Time aggregation profile level is lower than planning time period level". Obviously that is because the selected Time Profile Level in this Operator Profile is weekly (since the KF are stored weekly base level). Do I need to define all those KF on daily base level so that I'm able to chose daily as Time Profile Level for the Operator and assign the time aggregation profile properly?

best regards

Bastian

[Former Member]

Hi Venkat,

If you mantain , all those relevant KF at daily levels then you can surely aggregate.

But not every business will maintain the KFs on that level and then this feature will come in handy.

I guess even the standard KFs in sample planning areas have different planning levels.

Regards,

Anurag