Non-Standard Scenarios for SAP Supply Network Collaboration

Dr. Christian Butzlaff is a Director at Value Prototyping/COE, SAP Palo Alto, US. He started his career at SAP as a software developer at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. He later on moved to SAP Labs, Palo Alto, California. As a Development Manager he was responsible for several products, newly introduced to the market. Before he took the position in the Value Prototyping team, Dr. Butzlaff was responsible Development Manager for the Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) component. Dr. Butzlaff holds a PhD in physics from the University of Hamburg and is a certified PMP. Thomas Heinzel studies physiscs, and holds a Ph.D. from the university of Bonn, Germany. He has been with SAP in Walldorf, Germany and Palo Alto, CA since 1998, where he was key architect for the development of ICH/SNC through release SNC 7.0. He now works for SAP Research on business application architectures. Dr. Frank Thome is program manager for SAP Supply Network Collaboration at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. He has been working on logistics related IT topics for more than 15 years. During his career at SAP he worked as a software developer, development architect, and project manager for different software applications in the supply chain management area. Dr. Thome holds a PhD in economics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

1 ... Introduction ... 11 ... 1.1 ... The Need for Supply Network Collaboration ... 12 ... 1.2 ... SAP SNC Business Scenarios and Processes ... 14 ... 1.3 ... SAP SNC Architectural Overview ... 19 2 ... Supplier Collaboration Scenarios ... 41 ... 2.1 ... Multitier, and Multipartner Collaboration ... 41 ... 2.2 ... SMI with Demand-Based Replenishment ... 52 3 ... Outsourcing Scenarios ... 57 ... 3.1 ... PO Subcontracting Collaboration with SAP APO Supply Network Planning (SNP) Integration ... 57 ... 3.2 ... Subcontracting Component Transfer Confirmation ... 66 ... 3.3 ... Work Order Collaboration with SNI ... 71 4 ... Customer Collaboration Scenarios ... 81 ... 4.1 ... Enhanced Consensus Finding in Collaborative Sales Forecasting ... 81 ... 4.2 ... Sales Forecast Collaboration with Store-Level Data ... 88 ... 4.3 ... Order Forecast Collaboration ... 95 ... 4.4 ... Pallet Determination ... 101 5 ... SAP SNC Selection and Authorisation Concepts ... 109 ... 5.1 ... Screens in SAP SNC ... 109 ... 5.2 ... Introducing the SAP SNC Selection Component ... 111 ... 5.3 ... Model Class and Selection Object ... 118 ... 5.4 ... Result List ... 127 ... 5.5 ... Authorisation Concepts in SAP SNC ... 135 ... 5.6 ... Selection Modes and Selection Objects ... 139 ... 5.7 ... Application Logic ... 143 ... 5.8 ... Navigation Menu ... 157 ... 5.9 ... Selection Object Extensions ... 158 ... 5.10 ... Alert Selection ... 160 6 ... Business Process Enhancements ... 163 ... 6.1 ... Process Enhancement Description ... 163 ... 6.2 ... Enhancements of Mapping and Message Interface ... 164 ... 6.3 ... Enhancements of Business Object Layer for Order Documents ... 171 ... 6.4 ... Enhancements of PO Details Web Screen ... 179 ... 6.5 ... Enhancements of Time Series Data Storage ... 180 A ... Conclusion ... 183 B ... SAP SNC Resources ... 185 C ... Appendix ... 187 ... C.1 ... Example Proact Report ... 187 ... C.2 ... Example Proact Mapping ... 201 ... C.3 ... Example Method for Consensus Forecast ... 203 ... The Authors ... 209