Simulation of Resources

with SAP SEM Business Planning

Overview
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Extract plan data from
R/3 into BW basic InfoCubes

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Transfer extracted data into
transactional simulation InfoCubes

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Simulation of sales revenues

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Simulation of production quantities

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Simulation of Simulation of Simulation of Entry of
material external service machine additional values for
requirements requirements requirements income statements

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Simulation of
personnel
requirements

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Calculation and reporting
of income statements
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1. Powerpoint - Categorization and Flow of Data 1

2. Powerpoint - Categorization and Flow of Data 2
3. When you enter the Simulation of Resources Application first the Administration screen comes up.

In order to be able to execute the simulation of resources you have to transfer the data, that was extracted from the
operational system to basic InfoCubes before, in transactional simulation InfoCubes first. Therefore several
planning sequences were placed on the administration screen.
To transfer extracted CO-PA plan data for revenue simulation open the box "Transfer Data for Revenue
Simulation".
4. You can execute the planning function by clicking the button "Transfer Data".
To get information what's happening when you press that button, open the "Explanation" box.

For example during the transfer for the revenue simulation an ABC-classification of products is added according to
their planned revenues.
5. After executing the transfer planning function for revenue simulation proceed the same with all other transfer
planning functions (for material requirement Simulation etc.).
When you have transferred data for all sections of simulation you can start with the revenue simulation. Therefore
click the "Sales Prices and Quantities"-button within the navigation bar.
6. Click on "paneClassDC".
7. Click on "paneClassDC".
8. For the entry of simulation sales prices and quantities two different views were implemented. One is customer
focused (all products of a selected customer) the other one is product focused (all customers of a selected
product).
Please open the box "Customer Focused Entry of Prices".
9. Now you have two different possibilities to enter customer focused sales prices. Either you enter absolute values
for the prices or you derive the prices from CO-PA plan prices by using delta percentages.
Please open the box "Simulation prices via Delta Percentages".
10. Open the planning layout for the entry of delta percentages by opening the box "Entry of Delta Percentages".

Open the box "Calculation of Simulation Prices and Revenues" as well.

11. Now you can enter the delta percentages for all products of the selected customer, plant, product category and
version in the planning layout.
After entering delta percentages, calculate simulation sales prices by clicking the button "Calculate Prices and
Revenues".
12. Please notice: Simulation sales prices have been calculated.
Please close the "Customer Focused Entry of Prices" box.
13. In order to be able to calculate simulation sales revenues besides the sales prices sales quantities are needed.
Open the "Customer Focused Entry of Qunatities" box.
14. Again you have the possibility to enter sales quantities directly as absolute values or to use delta percentages
that refer to planned sales quantities.
Please open the "Direct Entry of Simulation Sales Quantities" box.
15. Now please open the planning layout by opening the "Entry of Simulation Sales Quantities" box. Please open
the "Calculation of Delta Percentages and Revenues" box as well.
16. Now you can enter sales quantities for all products of the selected customer, plant, product category (A, B, C)
and version.
When you have entered all sales quantities, execute the planning function "Calculate Percentages and Revenues"
that calculates the resulting delta percentages of the sales quantities according to planned sales quantities and
simulation sales quantities and the simulation sales revenues.
17. Please notice the entered simulation quantities and calculated delta percentages.
After that scroll down the page.
18. In order to see the resulting sales revenues open the "Revenue of selected customer" box.
19. Please notice the resulting sales revenues for the selected customer that were calculated based on the
simulation sales prices and sales quantities.
After that scroll up the page.
20. After you have done the sales revenue simulation for all relevant customers and products you can proceed with
the production quantity simulation.

Annotation: When you haven't entered simulation values for all products and customers (e.g. because you have
focused only on A products) you can execute the "Calculation of all Values for the whole Version" with delta
percentages as basis. Product-customer combinations that where not touched by you will be calculated with 0-
delta percentages for simulation prices and qunatities which means the plan values of CO-PA are used for the
simlation.
Therefore navigate to the relevant screen by clicking the "Scrap Rates of Finished Goods" navigation button
within the navigation bar.
21. Click on "paneClassDC".
22. Click on "paneClassDC".
23. Within that page you can enter scrap rates for all finished goods of a selected category of products (A, B, C),
plant and version. After that the resulting production qunatities are clalculated by using the simulation sales
quantities and those scrap rates.
Please open the planning layout by opening the "Scrap Rate Entry" box.
24. You can directly enter scrap rates for all products of the selected plant and catategory of products.
But there are also different functions for data entry support. Open for example the "Copy Scrap Rates from
Material Master" box.
25. This planning function copies scrap rates from the material master column into all simulation columns.
Execute the marked planning function.
26. Please notice the copied scrap rates in the planning layout.
27. As this is only a data entry support you can change the values afterwards manually. Please notice the changed
values in the planning layout.
After that calculate the resulting production quantities by opening one of the marked boxes and execute the
included planning function.
28. In order to see the resulting production quantities open the "Production Quantities" box.
29. Please notice the resulting production quantities.
After that scroll up the page.
30. When you have simulated the production quantities you can process the material requirement simulation.
In order to do that click the "Purchase Prices and Material Requirements" button within the navigation page.
31. Click on "paneClassDC".
32. Click on "paneClassDC".
33. Within that page the material requirement simulation and the external service requirement simulation are
situated. You reach each of them by clicking the tab strip entries.

For the material requirement simulation simulation purchase prices are used. You can enter them directly or you
can use delta percentages again.
Please open the "Entry of Delta Percentages of Purchase Prices of Materials" box.
34. Now please open the planning layout by opening the marked box.
35. You can enter the delta percentages in the layout directly. Delta percentages of the first simulation year refer to
the purchase price from the material master, delta percentages of the following simulation years refer to the
previous year prices.

You can also use a planning function for data entry support first.
Please open the "Data Entry Support for Delta Percentages" box.
36. Here you can enter delta percentages for each simulation year.
37. When you have entered the data entry support values you can copy them into the planning layout above.
In order to do that click the marked planning function button.
38. Please notice the result of the data entry support function in the planning layout.
39. Because it's only a data entry support function you can change the proposal values afterwards manually.
Please notice the changed values in the planning layout.
After that execute the "Calculate Prices" planning function to calculate the resulting purchase prices for the
simulation.
40. After that you can calculate the resulting costs of material by openting the "Calculation of Material Costs for
selected Objects" box and executing the included planning function.
After that open the "Costs of Material" box to see the resulting costs of Material.
41. Please notice the resulting material requirements and costs of material.
After that scroll up the page.
42. Please navigate to the external service requirements simulation by clicking the marked tab strip entry.
43. Click on "paneClassDC".
44. Click on "paneClassDC".
45. As basis of external services requirement simulation simulation prices of external services are used. Again you
can enter them directly or via delta percentages.
Please open the "Direct Entry of Prices of External Services" box.
46. Now please open the planning layout for the prices of the external services.
47. Now you can enter the simulation prices of the external services for all external services of the selected version.
48. After you have entered the prices of the external services you can calculate the resulting delta percentages by
executing the planning function "Calculate Delta Percentages of Prices". Please note the resulting prices of
external services in the planning layout.
49. When you have entered prices of external services either directly or via delta percentages you can calculate the
resulting external service requirements by executing one of the marked planning functions.
50. Notice the resulting external service costs in the planning layout.
After that scroll up the page.
51. Now navigate to machine requirement simulation by clicking the "Machine Requirement" button within the
navigation bar.
52. Click on "paneClassDC".
53. Click on "paneClassDC".
54. To enter the parameters for the machine requirement simulation please open both marked boxes.
55. Now please enter values for the required parameters.
56. While the days of production per year is absolute necessary for the simulation the standard rate of capacity
utilization is only a data entry support. You can also enter rates of capacity utilization in planning layout directly.
Here we use the data entry support. Execute the "Copy Standard Rate of Capacity Utilization" in order to copy the
standard rate into the planning layout.
57. Please notice the result of the data entry support. Again you can change the proposal values afterwards
manually.

Annotation: The rates of capacity utilization can be used to simulate the result of a two- or three-shift-production
and the different necessity of maintenance of the machines.
58. Please notice the manually changed rates of capacity utilization and the entered values for machine capacity for
the beginning of the first year of simulation in the planning layout.

After that you can execute the "Calculate Machine Requirements" planning function. Based on the simulated
production quantities and information from the routings, required machine hours are calculated. Furthermore
required machine capacities (i.e. numbers of machines) and the resulting capacity load utilizations are calculated
based on the required machine hours, the days of production per year and the entered (target) rates of capacity
utilization. At the end the additional machine requirements are calculated by using the machine requirements of a
simulation year and the machine capacity of the previous year.

Please notice the results of those calculations in the planning layout as well.
59. Now please navigate to the simulation of resulting machine costs by clicking the marked tab strip entry.
60. After executing the "Calculate Machine Costs" planning function open the "Layout of Machine Costs" box in
order to see the resulting machine costs.
61. Please notice the resulting machine costs in the planning layout.
After that navigate to the investment requirement simulation by clicking the marked tab strip entry.
62. To simulate the investments requirements the prices per machine are needed. Multiplied by the additionally
required number of machines the investment requirements are calculated.
Please open the planning layout by opening the "Layout of Investment Requirements" box.
63. In that planning layout you can enter the prices per machine for each machine type plant combination. You can
also use a planning function to copy values of the first year of simulation into further years.
64. After entering the prices per machine you can calculate the resulting investment requirements by executing the
planning function "Calculate Investment Requirements".
65. Please notice the resulting investment requirements in the planning layout.
After that scroll up the page.
66. Now please navigate to the staffing requirements simulation by clicking the "Staffing Requirements" navigation
button within the navigation bar.
67. Click on "paneClassDC".
68. Click on "paneClassDC".
69. One this page for each job type required man hours, headcounts, additional headcounts and personnel
expenses are simulated. We'll have a look at the machine operators as an example.
In order to enter the required parameters please open the marked boxes.
70. After entering man-hours per year by plant and wage rates for machine operators by year and plant you
calculate both of the marked planning functions.

The first one calculates the required man-hours for machine operators by using the simulated production
quantities, information from the routings. Based on the required man-hours and teh man-hours per year required
headcounts are calulated. By comparing required headcounts of two following years additionlly required
headcounts are caluclated.

The second planning function calculates personnel expenses for machine operators by using simulated
headcounts and entered wage rates.

Results of both planning functions you can see by opening the marked planning layouts.
71. Please notice the resulting staffing requirements in the planning layout.
After that please navigate to the simulation result overview by clicking the "Overview Simulation Results"
navigation button within the navigation bar.
72. Within that page lots of planning layouts are situated the show the results of the simulation so far.
Please open for example the "Sales Revenues" box.
73. Please notice the aggregated view on the simulated sales revenues by plant and product category.

Besides that single version view there are also two version comparison views.
Please navigate to a version comparison view by clicking the marked tab strip entry.
74. Please open the "Sales Revenues" box again.
75. Please notice the version comparison takes please between the versions you have selected.
After that please navigate to the income statements by clicking the "Income Statement" navigation button within
the navigation bar.
76. Click on "paneClassDC".
77. Click on "paneClassDC".
78. Before we have a look at the resulting income statements we have to enter some furth information to complete
the income statements.
Please open for example the marked boxes.
79. Here you can enter further information for the income statements that does not result from simulation so far.
80. When you have entered all additional values please navigate to the display of resulting income statements by
clicking the marked tab strip entry.
81. In order to transfer simulation results into income statements and to calculate the resulting income statements
open the "Transfer Data and Calculation of Income Statements" box.
82. In order to see, what happens when you execute the planning function, open the "Explanation" box.
83. After executing the marked planning function scroll down the page.
84. Also for the income statements you a single version view as well as two different version comparison views.
Open for example the single version view.
85. Now you can open a layout of the income statement of a single plant or a layout of the income statement across
all plants.
Please open the marked box.
86. Within that planning layout you can see the resulting income statement for the selected plant and version for all
years of simulation.