The planning cycles can be created to coincide with the budget or forecast cycles
within your corporation. These planning cycles are created within the Process
Management workspace. Clicking on the Process Management link in the
Workspace Browser will open the Process Management workspace within the
Planning Business Modeler, as displayed in Figure 7-28.
A new cycle can be created by clicking on the Create a Cycle under the Actions
menu or clicking on the Create a Cycle link on the Process Scheduling Tasks pane
that appears to the right of the Process Management workspace. This opens the
Create a Cycle wizard. The Name, Label, and an optional Description of the cycle
is provided on this page. The owner of the cycle can be selected by clicking on the
Ellipsis (??¦) button to the right of the Owner: text box at the bottom of this page.
Clicking this button will open another pop-up window that displays all the users that
Figure 7-28 The Process Management workspace in Planning Business Modeler helps to
create and manage planning cycles throughout the organization.
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are added to the PPS Planning Server. In this Select Owner dialog box, highlight the
name of the user that should own the cycle. Then click on the Add Selected button
at the top to add the selected user as the owner of the cycle. One cycle can have only
one owner and any user that is assigned to a business role within the PPS Planning
system can be selected as the owner of the cycle.
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