Supply Chain Management with SAP APO™ (eBook)

Preface 5
Contents 7
Part I – Overview 16
1 SCM Projects with SAP APO™ 17
1.1 The Supply Chain Management Approach 17
1.2 Supply Chain Management Projects with SAP APO 20
1.3 SAP APOTM Project Management and Peculiarities 21
2 SCM Processes and SAP APO™ Modules 23
3 SAP APOTM Architecture 28
3.1 Technical Building Blocks of SAP APO 28
3.2 Master Data Overview 30
3.3 Model and Version 36
3.4 Planners 37
3.5 Order Categories 38
3.6 Pegging 38
3.7 Data Locking 41
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 68
4.5 Promotion Planning 78
4.6 Dependent Demand in Demand Planning 83
4.7 Collaborative Forecasting 86
4.8 Background Planning 88
4.9 Release of the Demand Plan 90
5 Forecast Consumption and Planning Strategies 96
5.1 Make-to-Stock 96
5.2 Make-to-Order 97
5.3 Planning with Final Assembly 98
5.4 Planning Without Final Assembly 100
5.5 Planning for Assembly Groups 102
5.6 Technical Settings for the Requirements Strategies 103
Part III – Order Fulfilment 106
6 Order Fulfilment Overview 107
7 Sales 109
7.1 Sales Order Entry 109
7.2 Availability Check Overview 110
7.3 Master Data and Configuration 114
7.4 Product Availability Check 119
7.5 Allocations 124
7.6 Forecast Check 131
7.7 Rules-Based ATP 132
7.8 Transportation and Shipment Scheduling 142
7.9 Backorder Processing 144
8 Transportation Planning 154
8.1 Transportation Planning Overview 154
8.2 Master Data and Configuration 156
8.3 TP/VS Planning Board 163
8.4 TP/VS Optimisation 165
8.5 Scheduling 168
8.6 Carrier Selection 169
8.7 Collaboration 170
8.8 Release and Transfer to SAP ERP™ 171
8.9 Dynamic Route Determination 171
Part IV – Distribution 172
9 Distribution and Supply Chain Planning Overview 173
9.1 Distribution and Supply Chain Planning Scenarios 173
9.2 Applications for Distribution and Supply Chain Planning 175
9.3 Order Cycle for Stock Transfers 179
9.4 Integration of Stock Transfers to SAP ERP™ 181
9.5 SNP Planning Book 186
10 Integrated Distribution and Production Planning 190
10.1 Cases for Integrated Planning 190
10.2 SNP Optimiser 191
10.3 Capable-to-Match 200
11 Distribution Planning 214
11.1 Master Data for Distribution Planning 214
11.2 SNP Heuristic 217
11.3 Planned Stock Transfers 217
11.4 Stock in Transit 219
11.5 Storage and Handling Restrictions 220
11.6 Sourcing 222
12 Replenishment 224
12.1 Deployment 224
12.2 Transport Load Builder 234
Part V – Production 240
13 Production Overview 241
13.1 Production Process Overview 241
13.2 Applications for Production Planning 245
13.3 Feasible Plans 256
13.4 Master Data for Production 258
13.5 Dependencies to the SAP ERP™ Configuration 281
14 Rough-Cut Production Planning 283
14.1 Basics of Rough-Cut Production Planning 283
14.2 SNP Heuristic 286
14.3 Capacity Levelling 288
14.4 SNP Optimisation for Production Planning 289
14.5 Capable-to-Match (with SNP Master Data) 291
14.6 Scheduling in SNP 292
14.7 Integration to PP/DS and SAP ERP™ 295
15 Detailed Production Planning 301
15.1 Basics of PP/DS 301
15.2 Heuristics for Production Planning 306
15.3 Consumption Based Planning 314
15.4 Material Flow and Service Heuristics 315
15.5 Tools for Visualisation and Interactive Planning 317
15.6 Reporting 322
15.7 Special Processes for Production Planning 325
15.8 Capable-to-Match (with PP/DS Master Data) 328
16 Sales in a Make-to-Order Environment 330
16.1 Process Peculiarities and Overview 330
16.2 Capable-to-Promise 332
16.3 Multi-level ATP 341
17 Detailed Scheduling 345
17.1 Planning Board 345
17.2 Basics of Detailed Scheduling 350
17.3 Scheduling Heuristics 353
17.4 Sequence Dependent Set-up 357
17.5 Sequence Optimisation 360
18 Production Execution 371
18.1 Planned Order Conversion 371
18.2 ATP Check and Batch Selection 373
18.3 Production Order Handling 374
19 Modelling of Special Production Conditions 377
19.1 Alternative Resources 377
19.2 Modelling of Labour 381
19.3 Overlapping Production 382
19.4 Fixed Pegging and Order Network 383
19.5 Push Production 387
Part VI – External Procurement 388
20 Purchasing 389
20.1 Purchasing Overview 389
20.2 Suppliers and Procurement Relationships 393
20.3 Supplier Selection 394
20.4 Scheduling Agreements 396
20.5 Supplier Capacity 399
21 Subcontracting 402
21.1 Subcontracting Process Overview 402
21.2 Modelling of the Production at the Receiving Plant 403
21.3 Modelling of the Production at the Supplier 406
21.4 Subcontracting Process Variants 409
21.5 Subcontracting in SNP 412
Part VII – Cross Process Topics 413
22 Stock and Safety Stock 414
22.1 Stock Types in SAP APO 414
22.2 Safety Stock 415
23 Interchangeability 419
23.1 Interchangeability Overview 419
23.2 Interchangeability in DP 420
23.3 Interchangeability in SNP 421
23.4 Interchangeability in PP/DS 422
23.5 Interchangeability in ATP 424
24 Exception Reporting 425
24.1 Basics of Alert Monitoring 425
24.2 Alert Types 427
24.3 Alert Handling 431
24.4 Alert Calculation in the Background 433
24.5 Supply Chain Cockpit 433
Part VIII – System Integration 435
25 Core Interface 436
25.1 Overview of the Core Interface 436
25.2 Configuration of the Core Interface 436
25.3 Integration Models and Data Transfer 439
25.4 Master Data Integration 443
25.5 Transactional Data Integration 447
25.6 Operational Concept 449
26 Integration to DP 457
26.1 Data Storage in Info Cubes 457
26.2 Data Loading Structures 459
26.3 Data Upload 462
Appendix 465
References 466
Transactions and Reports 475
Index 489