PPM cluster groups
As part of the scheduled PPM order generation process, you can create PPM cluster groups. These groups allow you to define and save cluster criteria that can be reused across multiple PPM scheduling profiles. This streamlines the setup process, ensuring consistency and reducing the need to reconfigure clustering criteria for different profiles.
If you want to apply clustering to the scheduled order generation, it is mandatory to define a PPM cluster group. The PPM cluster group sets the criteria that must be applied to clustered order generation. You can create PPM cluster groups at the > selection step.
Some cluster criteria are fixed, such as:
• Standard order
• Contract line
• Budget definition
Other cluster criteria in the cluster group are optional. Which optional clustering criteria are shown as Criteria fields through the Links action panel of the Cluster groups selection step, depends on the fields selected as optional clustering criteria in the business objects settings made on Activity definitions (base) in Field definer .
 | For more information, see Settings for the Activity definitions (base) business object. |
A PPM cluster group can be linked to more than one PPM
profile, but a PPM profile can only be linked to one PPM cluster group. Ultimately, it is the PPM profile that ensures that the scheduled PPM order generation / clustered PPM order generation actually takes place.
For more information on defining and running PPM profiles, see PPM
profile and Adding and running a PPM profile as a scheduled task.