What are the steps or transactions we need to carry out in the planning cycle? Assuming it's a weekly planning process.

First release forecast from DP to SNP. 

After Heuristic and before Deployment what actions we need to take in APO & R3

1. Level the planned production orders

2.

After Deployment and Before TLB what actions the planner need to take in APO & R3

1.

2.

After TLB what steps are required in APO & R3

1.

Ans 1:

Assuming all the configuration and master data settings are done. The following would be the routine things:

After Heuristic and before Deployment what actions we need to take in APO & R3

1. Level the planned production orders

2. Before the run all the actual stock should be realised in the system ( finished goods stock ) or the run should be after the days production. ( if deployment is only based on free stock then the blocked/quality stock should not be very high or the decision on making it DND or moving it back to free stock should be through if the materials are critical).

After Deployment and Before TLB what actions the planner need to take in APO & R3

1.  In the variant the data selection period should be changed as it is not a dynamic field.

2.  Set the planning start date in the variant.

After TLB what steps are required in APO & R3

1.  If you have collect change pointer then send the process them.

Mainly if the process chains are maintained you can run the process in a continuous fashion. If you don't want to run heuristic job separately you can also try real time deployment. The main criticality of deployment TLB lies in the master data settings. Just to say on masters you can check the following things 

FOR DEPLOYMENT

Pull Horizon 

Push Horizon 

Checking Horizon 

Fare Share rule 

Push Rule 

Target stock rule 

FOR TLB 

Loading Group 

Pull in horizon if required- T lane 

TLB profile

TLB General settings - SPRO

Ans 2:

First release forecast from DP to SNP. 

Run LC consistency check in SNP Planning Area ( report /SAPAPO/TS_LCM_CONS_CHECK)

delete forecast from the past /sapapo/md74

release forecast /sapapo/mc90

Run SNP heuristics /sapapo/snp01

After Heuristic and before Deployment what actions we need to take in APO & R3

1. Level the planned production orders

2. Run Deployment heuristics /sapapo/snp02

if you want to publish and it is not online /sapapo/c5

run CCR /sapapo/ccr

generate alerts: DP background jobs

After Deployment and Before TLB what actions the planner need to take in APO & R3

1.  Analyze alerts (/sapapo/amon1)

2.  Analyze Master data

3.  Create POs

4.  Send to OLTP

After TLB what steps are required in APO & R3

1.  Run CCR /sapapo/ccr

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