Executive Summary Is The Reason for Over Ordering due to R/3 or SNP? Examples of Combined Supposed SNP and R/3 Over Ordering Examples of Combined SNP Only Over Ordering Overages Caused by Both SNP Purchase Requisitions and SNP Planned Orders What Recommendations are in the Optimizer Input Log? When in the Time Horizon does Over…
Executive Summary Capacity resources can be constrained in SAP SNP. There are tradeoffs in inaccuracy in the various approaches to storage capacity. There is a better approach than the standard functionality in SNP, which is little used at actual customers. Introduction This document describes the current design of the storage capacity view and recommends what…
Executive Summary Safety Stock Setting at One Client The Reasons for the Enhancement Request Confusion on Safety Stock Currently Comfort Level Loss in Functionality of Safety Stock as of 7.0 The Use of the Requested Enhancement Safety Stock Method Introduction This document is designed to explain why the Inventory Steering Committee has asked for an…
Executive Summary The optimizer log can be audited in the SNP optimizer to provide critical information about the optimization run. We cover the product locations’ view, the parameters, input log, result log, the costs, and the trace field views. Introduction to the SNP Optimizer The SNP optimizer has a log, which provides information on a…
Executive Summary A poor design to account for issues in SAP DP. Flow control with selectively activating the means of transport. Are the means of transport designed for this? Flow Control with the Means of Transport This document is designed to describe the requirement and develop a solution for one client’s need to adjust for…
Executive Summary Problem decomposition is how the problem is divided up for processing. There are major problems in decomposition for the supply chain optimization in SNP. There are important benefits to decomposition. One test that can be used is running the optimizer for a single location in the supply network. Introduction In finding a way…
Executive Summary Surprisingly, SAP SNP calculates safety stock differently than SAP ERP. Most companies use the days of supply setting for safety stock. We cover the SM safety stock method and cost optimizer. Introduction to Safety Stock in SAP In this article, we will cover the safety stock method in SAP. The safety stock method…
Executive Summary SAP APO is supposedly set up for exception based planning, for which APO alerts are a major part of this process. Implementation experience shows that APO alerts are used very differently than proposed by SAP. We cover examples of the APO alert screens. Introduction to APO Alerts On every APO implementation, APO alerts…
Executive Summary Planning books in APO can be configured to a telescope, which means that they have different buckets in the near term rather than the longer term. To accomplish this, we show how to create the Time Bucket Profile and set the basic and display periodicity interval and the interval number along with other…
Executive Summary We define a heuristic and how they work with the low-level code to direct the SNP heuristic. We cover when to run the low-level code transaction and to control the processing sequence with low-level codes. Introduction to the Low Level Code The Low Level Code is a way of controlling the heuristic in…