SAP7F is a new sample planning area for order-based planning. It supports a flexible master data model, which allows you to customize your master data objects according to your business model requirements. This new flexibility also gives SAP7F its name. The letter F stands for flexibility.
Order-based planning-relevant master data can now be stored in simple and compound master data types. If you build a flexible model, you can choose your naming convention for your master data types and use them universally. In addition, it can be used for planning activities other than order-based planning. You may also extend your master data model with objects irrelevant to order-based planning (OBP) but useful in a different business context.
The SAP7F concentrates on the visibility of aggregated orders (aggregated to a day) planned by order-based planning runs and on data entry for input key figures, for example, forecast, time-dependent safety stock, or constraint, for example, capacity.
The time profile delivered with the SAP7F sample planning area consists of the following: Day, Week, Technical week (to enable month/week disaggregation), and Quarter and Year.
The storage time profile level is a day.
With SAP7F you can use planning areas based on flexible master data, which means that you can store your master data set in simple and compound master data types configured in SAP IBP and use it for order-based planning. By storing and maintaining OBP-relevant master data in SAP IBP, you extend your flexibility in shaping the data input for your planning applications. It allows you to maintain data in your base and version-specific master data (VSMD) enabled versions.
The process ensures that the data used by OBP applications are always up-to-date and valid for order-based planning so that your planning outputs are always accurate.
The master data model is kept valid based on the usage of business meanings associated with your master data types and attributes. The business meanings form a business meaning profile that is validated during planning area activation, or when you activate the business meaning themselves (you can adjust the business meaning and activate that without making changes to the planning area).
