Community,
Anyone has experience below error? We are investigating how to use S&OP planning, when we start creating a new S&OP, this error prompts. we have fixed the inventory static period issue in Statistic Periods window. Thank you.
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Best answer by majose
Hi
Typically you get a lot of statistical periods when you install the system, if I remember correctly.
Anyway please check your Product Family Master, here you have two important fields for controlling the the length of planning horizon. Statistical Periods are also used in the lower portion - in the S&OP Grid
When you create a new header in the screen where you got the error, system tries to fill in periods for you in the grid based on number of history periods to show and the forward planning horizon.
Hope this helps
My gut feeling here is that you carefully need to add more statistical periods.
Once you have done that, the next step are:
- Set the Period Version to In Progress
- Enter the forecast for the product family
- Calculate your S&OP Data
- You might want to choose to import/copy data from MS Level 1
- Establish your new Operation Plan (production plan)
- Calculate Inventory Plan
- Repeat step 2, 3, 5 and 6 until you have good consensus plan. Especially step 3, 5 and 6.
-Mats
Hi
Typically you get a lot of statistical periods when you install the system, if I remember correctly.
Anyway please check your Product Family Master, here you have two important fields for controlling the the length of planning horizon. Statistical Periods are also used in the lower portion - in the S&OP Grid
When you create a new header in the screen where you got the error, system tries to fill in periods for you in the grid based on number of history periods to show and the forward planning horizon.
Hope this helps
My gut feeling here is that you carefully need to add more statistical periods.
Once you have done that, the next step are:
- Set the Period Version to In Progress
- Enter the forecast for the product family
- Calculate your S&OP Data
- You might want to choose to import/copy data from MS Level 1
- Establish your new Operation Plan (production plan)
- Calculate Inventory Plan
- Repeat step 2, 3, 5 and 6 until you have good consensus plan. Especially step 3, 5 and 6.
-Mats
It does help. e.g. the Forward Planning Horizon is 15 month, which will end up in year 2026. period 2026 is not defined in the Statistic Period window.
I changed this number to 6 to make sure the planning is falling in the valid 2025 periods. problem resolved.
Thank you.
Hi again Ron…
Just wanted to add “step 8” to my above list :-)
- Of course you will find it more fun & useful to start check your supply constraints for your S&OP plan - then this step is about setting up RRP together with your products families…. And check the future load situation. I stop here, otherwise I will never stop writing.
Good Luck
-Mats
We have gone through the steps you describled. We could successfully now export the approved SOP to MS Level 0 parts, and now we are able to see the planning data display in the MS Level 0 Part window.
But we might have another question, you can see our MS Level 0 Part planning is displayed in period Daily, it is defaulted. Wondering whether we could make it defaulted to Monthly/Weekly? where is the default window to set this up? thank you.
Good news, great that you are exploring S&OP. It is a good start… And as you know the S&OP process is 20% “software”, and the remaining 80% is “thought-ware” at your company.
Anyway, to answer your question… I copy the screen from latest cloud track, but it should look a little bit similar in IEE
I think weekly is a good choice because later when you dis-aggregate the forecast from MS Level 0 to MS Level 1, the master scheduler tends to like weekly forecast figures. The forecast consumption kind of looks better. But it is your choice - I don’t own the truth ;-)
Hmmm…. I don’t think you can change the default from Daily to Monthly. You just have to remember to do it. Good input though. I have made a note here in my book.
Finally, when it comes to S&OP; don’t try to solve your planning problem in month 1 and 2, it is to close. Typically the focus months are month 3 to 9.
Happy planning
-Mats
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