Performing a Planning Area Merge

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to perform a planning area merge.

Merge or Replace Copy Function

In addition to create new and create new with dependencies copy options, you can do the following:

  • Replace the target planning area with the source planning area
  • Merge the source planning area with the target planning area
  • Replace the target planning area with the source planning area including dependencies (IDs of the target planning area and master data types are kept)
The figure shows the Copy Merge function.

Merging two planning areas causes the deltas from the source planning area to be merged with the target planning area.

Copy Merge Results

The figure, Merge Results, shows the copy merge results.

The figure shows the Copy Merge function results.