This chapter describes how to set up and perform sales volume planning (SVP). Topics include:

• About Sales Volume Planning
• About the SVP Aggregate Action
• Scenario for Using Sales Volume Planning
• Roadmap for Sales Volume Planning
• Process of Setting Up Category-Product Hierarchies
• Process of Defining SVP Hierarchies
• Performing the Initial Aggregation
• Running Aggregation Processing in Parallel
• Populating Locks
• Process of Establishing Baseline Basis Quantities
• Copying Baseline Information to Other Fields
• Manually Entering SVP Data
• Process of Performing Ongoing SVP Administrative Tasks
• Viewing SVP Data (End User)
• Skipping SVP Source Data (End User)
• Locking and Modifying SVP Data (End User)
• About SVP Algorithms
• About Category and Account Level Allocation
• About Number Handling and Percentage-Basis Calculations
• About Configuring Sales Volume Planning
• Configuring Sales Volume Planning