In the early phase of your planning process, your lead planner wants to do some high-level planning by store type and then lock down the data. Planning by individual stores will then occur but they won't be able to exceed the lead planner's values.
The process for planning with multiple hierarchies is explained in the following example:
- Create a high-level hierarchy by store type.
- Create low-level hierarchy that includes stores.
- The lead planner inputs the forecast amounts by store type.
- The lead planner locks the cell.
- The store planners input data by store, in mass data entry mode.
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Use Case: Top Down Budgeting
When you enter planning data for a dimension with multiple hierarchies, you can end up with values booked directly to parent nodes in some of the hierarchies. For example, you can work in one table with a hierarchy with store types as leaf members, and in another table with store types as parent members.
Top down budgeting has to do with setting a limit on what the planners can assign, for example, to their stores. In the following, you can see an example of the steps required to prevent the store planners from exceeding the total by store type:
- The store planner divides up the $1000 using Mass Data Entry and locks the cell.
- The budget is exhausted.
- The store planner can’t budget any more than $1000.
![Steps that are listed before the image are highlighted in yellow. They are the steps for Top Down Budgeting. Steps that are listed before the image are highlighted in yellow. They are the steps for Top Down Budgeting.](/service/media/topic/e60398e0-4d49-4f91-ac6b-8cf78cc80909/SACP21_39_en-US_media/SACP21_39_en-US_images/U2L4_ParNodeBud_SS_C.png)