Why You Disable or Enable Dimensions for Supply Plan Measures
In your organization, you might not use all of the preconfigured dimensions to analyze your supply plans. To improve system and application performance while working with your supply plans, you can decide which dimensions are applicable to measures.
You can disable the Customer, Supplier, Demand Class, Order Type, and Exception Type dimensions to optimize data volumes and improve query performance. The Organization, Item, Resource, and Time dimensions are always used and you can't disable them.
When you disable a specific dimension, the planning engine preaggregates the related measures along that dimension. For example, measures such as Revenue or Sales Order Value are computed by default at the most detailed level of Organization, Item, Day, Customer Site, and Demand Class. However, this type of detailed analysis might not be necessary. You can configure your plan to compute the measure at only the Organization, Item, and Day level and ignore calculating the measure at the Customer Site and Demand Class levels.
Configure the dimensions in the Dimensions for Supply Measures section in the Supply: Advanced Options dialog box, which you open from the Plan Options page, Supply tab. The Supply: Advanced Options dialog box is accessible only for supply plans from a Supply Planning, Demand and Supply Planning, or Planning Central work area.
Because tables are shared across work areas, the selector in pivot tables displays all dimensions (enabled and disabled), and you can add a disabled dimension to a table or graph. In this case, the dimension does not show individual members, but shows one aggregated row or column of All.
When you enable a supply plan for Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), the reports won't have any members in the disabled dimensions of a supply plan.