Introduction to SAP APO PP/DS
… plenty of manual adjustments, and the output of PP/DS heuristics can be easily beaten by the output of several other production planning applications. Companies that are paying SAP consultants to implement PPDS heuristics do not know enough to manage a production scheduling project and are being tricked by their consulting firm and SAP.
Problem #2: PPDS as an Overall Solution
PPDS is a problematic application. Outside of SAP consultants who seek to make money on implementing PPDS, PPDS has no successful implementation history to speak of. PPDS’s TCO is covered in the article the SAP APO PP/DS …