Consumer Goods GuideSales Volume PlanningSales Volume Planning 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