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Understanding Process Steps and Business Roles for Predictive Material and Resource Planning (4B5)

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Define process steps for predictive material and resource planning (4B5)
  • Identify business roles for predictive material and resource planning (4B5)

Process Steps for Predictive Material and Resource Planning (4B5)

Applicable Process Steps

Process StepDescription
Create Planned Independent RequirementsThis process step shows you how to use planned independent requirements (PIRs) to perform demand management functions. A PIR contains one planned quantity and one date, or a number of PIRs' schedule lines, such as one planned quantity split over time according to dates.
Note
Instead of creating a single requirement, sometimes a requirements plan that includes one or more PIRs can be maintained for mass processing. In this case, the requirements are grouped and maintained under a requirement plan number.
Define Flexible ConstraintsThis process step shows you how to define flexible constraints. A supplier constraint means a specific supplier can only supply maximum feasible quantities for a specific period. During the planning phase, we need to ensure the planned requirements do not violate supplier constraints.
Schedule pMRP Simulation CreationThis process step shows you how to create a pMRP simulation.
Note
Besides creating a pMRP simulation via top-level materials, there are two more job templates for creating pMRP simulations. One is "Creation of pMRP Data via Workcenter" and the other is "Creation of pMRP Data via Components".
Process pMRP SimulationsThis process step shows you how to process the created pMRP simulation to handle bottlenecks and constraints.
pMRP with Supplier Collaboration (optional)This process step discusses how to leverage pMRP simulations for components and to help find suppliers, which is part of the procurement line of business. If a material planner has no knowledge of the suppliers and prices for a desired component, they can first download the component data from the pMRP simulation, then follow the Request for Price (1XF) scope item to request suppliers for the price quotation.
Download Component Data from pMRP SimulationThis process step is based on the pMRP with Supplier Collaboration scenario, where you learn how to download the required data from the pMRP Component view.
Create Price Request from SuppliersThis process step is based on the pMRP with Supplier Collaboration scenario, where you must complete the "Create Price Request" and "Create Supplier Quotation" steps, and maintain different net order prices for two bidders in the Request for Price (1XF) business process.
Check Planned Independent RequirementsThis process step is based on the pMRP with Supplier Collaboration scenario, where you learn how to check the adjusted PIRs for top level materials and subassembly materials to ensure there will not be any capacity issues.

Business Roles for Predictive Material and Resource Planning (4B5)

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Access to business applications is controlled by role-based authorization management. You assign Business Roles to Business Users, and the roles provide access to business tasks. Business Users are defined as employees, contractors, or other individuals that need access to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system.

How to find Business Roles for a scope item

  1. Navigate to https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/BP_CLD_ENTPR.
  2. Select your country localization from the Version drop-down list.
  3. In the Solution Scope section, expand the relevant scope item group.
  4. Select a scope item.
  5. Download the test script.
  6. Navigate to the Roles section of the test script.

A Business Role is assigned to a Business User to grant permission to access applications in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.

One or more Business Catalogs have been assigned to a Business Role. Business Catalogs include access to one or more applications, dashboards, or displays of data.

Administrators can control visibility to the data granted through the catalog by applying General Restrictions to Business Catalogs. By maintaining access restrictions, you can define the subset of all existing business objects a user can view (read) or edit (write) when working with a particular business role.

The Business Catalog defines which access categories are available (Value Help, Read, Write), and for which fields restriction values can be maintained. The fields vary per catalog, as they are based on the fields within the apps in the catalog. The Business Role aggregates restrictions for all Business Catalogs.

Administrators define a restriction based on a supported field (for example, company code, country, controlling area, and so on). Supported restriction fields vary per Business Catalog, as they are based on the fields within the apps in the catalog. You can restrict data access for the Value Help, Read, and Write separately. Read access always includes Value Help access, and Write access always includes Read access.

How to identify the Business Catalog(s) mapped to a Business Role and the Fiori application(s) mapped to a Business Catalog:

  1. Log into the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system.
  2. Select the Manage Business Roles application from the Launchpad.
  3. Select a Business Role.
  4. Select the Assigned Business Catalogs tab to view the standard Business Catalogs assigned to the standard Business Role.
  5. Select a Business Catalog.
  6. Select the Catalog Description tab to view the Functional Description, Authorization Criteria, and Associated Catalogs information.
  7. Select the Applications tab to view the Fiori apps mapped to the Business Catalog.
Note
Please do not edit SAP Standard Business Roles directly. To customize Business Roles, always make a copy of the SAP Standard Business Role or use the option Create From Template in the Maintain Business Roles application.

To apply General Restrictions, an Administrator should first make a copy of the SAP Standard Business Role, or create a new role based on the SAP Standard Business Role Template. For example, if you need to restrict access in the Accounts Payable Accountant Business Role for some users to only Company Code 1710 (United States), and for some users to only Company Code 1010 (Germany), you will create two new Business Roles based on the SAP Standard Accounts Payable Accountant role. You should name the roles accordingly (for example, Accounts Payable Accountant_1710). In the first business role, you will edit the role and maintain the restriction value(s) for the entire Business Role (that is, define the Company Code field = 1710). Then, you may edit the individual business catalogs within the role and define the access category (that is, Value Help, Read, Write) as Restricted. When you create a new Business Role, the Read access is set to Unrestricted and Write access is set to No Access by default. When an access category is Restricted, you must select a specific field value (for example, Company Code = 1710) or grant unrestricted access. If you leave fields empty within a business catalog, a user will be assigned No Access to the field in the business catalog's granted apps.

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