Supply Chain Management with APO (eBook)

Preface 5
Contents 7
Part I – Overview 16
1 Supply Chain Management Projects with APO 17
1.1 The Supply Chain Management Approach 17
1.2 Supply Chain Management Projects with APO 20
1.3 APO Project Peculiarities and Project Management 21
2 SCM Processes and APO Modules 23
3 APO Architecture 28
3.1 Technical Building Blocks of APO 28
3.2 System Integration Overview 30
3.3 Master Data Overview 31
3.4 Model and Version 36
3.5 Planners 38
3.6 Order Categories 38
3.7 Pegging 39
3.8 Data Locking 42
Part II – Demand Planning 43
4 Demand Planning 44
4.1 Demand Planning Overview 44
4.2 Data Structure for Demand Planning 47
4.3 Planning Book, Macros and Interactive Planning 57
4.4 Statistical Forecasting 67
4.5 Promotion Planning 76
4.6 Dependent Demand in Demand Planning 82
4.7 Collaborative Forecasting 85
4.8 Background Planning 86
4.9 Release of the Demand Plan 88
5 Forecast Consumption & Planning Strategies
5.1 Make-to-Stock 94
5.2 Make-to-Order 95
5.3 Planning with Final Assembly 96
5.4 Planning Without Final Assembly 98
5.5 Planning for Assembly Groups 100
5.6 Technical Settings for the Requirements Strategies 101
Part III – Order Fulfilment 104
6 Order Fulfilment Overview 105
7 Sales 107
7.1 Sales Order Entry 107
7.2 Availability Check Overview 108
7.3 Master Data & Configuration
7.4 Product Availability Check 117
7.5 Allocations 122
7.6 Forecast Check 129
7.7 Rules-Based ATP 130
7.8 Transportation & Shipment Scheduling
7.9 Backorder Processing 142
8 Transportation Planning 151
8.1 Transportation Planning Overview 151
8.2 Master Data and Configuration 153
8.3 TP/VS Planning Board 160
8.4 TP/VS Optimisation 162
8.5 Scheduling 165
8.6 Carrier Selection 166
8.7 Collaboration 167
8.8 Release and Transfer to R/3 168
Part IV – Distribution 169
9 Distribution & Supply Chain Planning Overview
9.1 Distribution & Supply Chain Planning Scenarios
9.2 Applications for Distribution & Supply Chain Planning
9.3 Order Cycle for Stock Transfers 176
9.4 Integration of Stock Transfers to R/3 178
9.5 SNP Planning Book 183
10 Integrated Distribution & Production Planning
10.1 Cases for Integrated Planning 187
10.2 SNP Optimiser 189
10.3 Capable-to-Match 197
11 Distribution Planning 212
11.1 Master Data for Distribution Planning 212
11.2 SNP Heuristic 215
11.3 Planned Stock Transfers 215
11.4 Stock in Transit 217
11.5 Storage & Handling Restrictions
11.6 Sourcing 220
12 Replenishment 222
12.1 Deployment 222
12.2 Transport Load Builder 235
Part V – Production 241
13 Production Overview 242
13.1 Production Process Overview 242
13.2 Applications for Production Planning 246
13.3 Feasible Plans 255
13.4 Master Data for Production 258
13.5 Dependencies to the R/3 Configuration 280
14 Rough-Cut Production Planning 282
14.1 Basics of Rough-Cut Production Planning 282
14.2 SNP Heuristic 285
14.3 Capacity Levelling 287
14.4 SNP Optimisation for Production Planning 288
14.5 Capable-to-Match (with SNP Master Data) 290
14.6 Scheduling in SNP 291
14.7 Integration to PP/DS and R/3 294
15 Detailed Production Planning 300
15.1 Basics of PP/DS 300
15.2 Heuristics for Production Planning 305
15.3 Consumption Based Planning 313
15.4 Material Flow & Service Heuristics
15.5 Tools for Visualisation and Interactive Planning 315
15.6 Reporting 321
15.7 Special Processes for Production Planning 324
15.8 Capable-to-Match (with PP/DS Master Data) 327
16 Sales in a Make-to-Order Environment 328
16.1 Process Peculiarities and Overview 328
16.2 Capable-to-Promise 330
16.3 Multi-Level ATP 339
17 Detailed Scheduling 343
17.1 Planning Board 343
17.2 Basics of Detailed Scheduling 348
17.3 Scheduling Heuristics 351
17.4 Sequence Dependent Set-Up 355
17.5 Sequence Optimisation 359
18 Production Execution 370
18.1 Planned Order Conversion 370
18.2 ATP Check and Batch Selection 372
18.3 Production Order Handling 373
19 Modelling of Special Production Conditions 376
19.1 Alternative Resources 376
19.2 Modelling of Labour 380
19.3 Overlapping Production 381
19.4 Fix Pegging and Order Network 382
19.5 Push Production 386
Part VI – External Procurement 387
20 Purchasing 388
20.1 Purchasing Overview 388
20.2 Suppliers and Procurement Relationships 392
20.3 Supplier Selection 393
20.4 Scheduling Agreements 395
20.5 Supplier Capacity 398
21 Subcontracting 401
21.1 Subcontracting Process Overview 401
21.2 Modelling of the Production at the Receiving Plant 402
21.3 Modelling of the Production at the Supplier 404
21.4 Subcontracting Process Variants 408
21.5 Subcontracting in SNP 410
Part VII – Cross Process Topics 412
22 Stock and Safety Stock 413
22.1 Stock Types in APO 413
22.2 Safety Stock 414
23 Interchangeability 418
23.1 Interchangeability Overview 418
23.2 Interchangeability in DP 419
23.3 Interchangeability in SNP 420
23.4 Interchangeability in PP/DS 421
23.5 Interchangeability in ATP 423
24 Exception Reporting 424
24.1 Basics of Alert Monitoring 424
24.2 Alert Types 426
24.3 Alert Handling 430
24.4 Alert Calculation in the Background 432
24.5 Supply Chain Cockpit 432
Part VIII – System Integration 434
25 Core Interface 435
25.1 Overview of the Core Interface 435
25.2 Configuration of the Core Interface 435
25.3 Integration Models and Data Transfer 438
25.4 Master Data Integration 442
25.5 Transactional Data Integration 446
25.6 Operational Concept 448
26 Integration to DP 456
26.1 Data Storage in Info Cubes 456
26.2 Data Loading Structures 458
26.3 Data Upload 461
Appendix 464
References 465
Literature 465
OSS Notes 465
Abbreviations 471
Scheduling of Background Jobs 473
Transactions and Reports 476
Index 488