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  • How to Understand Redeployment Decision Matrix for SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … in SAP SNP and never did.

    Companies that want redeployment functionality do not use APO for deployment, and they have three basic alternatives available to them:

    Create a custom report that allows the redeployment to be performed manually.
    Use an application that has redeployment functionality, and integrate this application with APO.
    Create a custom application that performs redeployment.

    Redeployment Decision Matrix

    Integrating with the SAP Deployment Solution
    Regardless of which alternative above is chosen, it is still necessary that the redeployment transportation lanes be turned on when STOs are brought over from SAP ERP and turned off before the SNP

  • How to Set up Regional S&OP Process Threads

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … also easiest to perform a version copy from the same database. This is shown in the graphic below.

    More resources are required when one uses a duplicate version. It means more data, and the version copy itself takes processing resources and must be scheduled for light periods of system use.
    Only the 000 version is integrated with SAP ERP; all other versions are kept in APO. Typically simulation versions begin with a version copy of the live version. Versions can be flexibly named any three-character combination. So a version could be named “SOP,” as you can see from the

  • The Lack of Advice Setting Up Global SAP System

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … threads.
    The following are the general frequency of the different supply planning processes.

    S&OP & Rough Cut Capacity Plan: These are used for long-range planning and, in most cases, are off-line analyses and are not part of the live environment.
    The Initial Supply Plan: (performed by MRP in ERP systems) Produces initial production and procurement plan. It is focused on bringing stock into the supply network and creating stock with planned production orders. It can also be called the master production schedule (MPS) if the initial supply plan is run under certain criteria. To see more on this …

  • Global Schedule for Intercompany Transfer

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the logic and assumptions for the global batch schedule.
    The Planning Runs and the Global Schedule
    SNP uses a variety of planning runs to meet supply planning and initial production planning requirements. These are both planning runs in the active version (the version that integrates and shares information with SAP ERP) and for simulation versions, such as S&OP and rough-cut capacity planning. The simulation versions are not part of the global batch schedule as they can be run ad hoc and can be run offline. Therefore, this document will only focus on active planning runs.
    The Specifics the …

  • How to Best Understand Engineered to Order

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … generating items in large quantities.
    The Unique Manufacturing Environment of Engineer to Order or Engineered to Order or Engineering to Order
    It is confusing as to what precisely engineer to order is on supply planning. If “what is to be produced” is not yet agreed upon, it would seem strange that a sales order would be created at all. There is a type of transaction in ERP systems and CRM systems, called a quotation. The quotation precedes the sales order. A quotation is essentially a request for information – which is usually a price but can be other information as …

  • Introduction to SAP APO DP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … popular because many businesses are interested in forecasting and are typically striving for continuous improvement in the quality of their forecasts. And while SAP ERP has some basic forecasting functionality, SAP DP’s forecasting capability is far more advanced. SAP DP fills a need for clients who are already SAP ERP customers.
    For those customers who don’t have SAP ERP or SAP APO, DP offers several advantages over other offerings, including integrating the forecasting system into the rest of the enterprise. SAP ERP can be run with its internal forecasting capability, or this functionality can be disabled, and SAP …

  • Introduction to SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … interest to companies is how SAP ERP supply chain planning differs from the advanced planning available in SAP APO. While a point-by-point comparison could be its own book, generally speaking, SAP ERP contains a simplified version of some of the SAP APO functionality, so an application from SAP ERP can be substituted, at a lower level of functionality, for an application in SAP APO. To show you how this works, let’s look at one area well understood by many people, Supply Network Planning (SNP).
    In SAP ERP, the forecasts and sales orders are taken into account and …

  • Book on How to Use Lean and Reorder Point Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Points in Their Essence
    Introduction to Economic Order Quantity
    Validity and Applicability of EOQ
    Using Economic Order Quantity in Systems
    Economic Order Quantity and Forecast Error
    EOQ and Quantity Discounts
    EOQ and Perishability
    EOQ and Production Planning
    Background on Reorder Point Planning in SAP
    Re-order Point Planning in SAP ERP
    Sum (Safety Stock + Expected Average Consumption for the Replenishment Lead Time)
    Manual or Externally Calculated Reorder Point Planning in SAP ERP
    Automatic Reorder Point in SAP ERP
    Conclusion

    Chapter 5: Lean Planning

    Where Did Lean Come From?
    The Big Lean Trend
    The Honesty of How Lean is Presented
    Different …

  • An Important Issue with Subcontracting in SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … PReq is created by the multi-level heuristic (it is also unknown if this same issue persists if the CTM is used or if the SNP optimizer is used) (unless the TLane is created manually)
    The STR is created by and sits in APO and is not transferred to SAP ERP.

    This is described in the screenshots below:

    This is how the subcontractor process flow should work (there are several subcontractor process flows, which is described in this link)

    References
    https://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-apo/apo-sub-contracting-with-third-party-provision-of-components-in-ppds …

  • The Math of Probable S/4HANA & Fiori Usage

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    … accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    The Math for the Estimate
    To estimate the amount of Fiori usage and how drastically it differs from the statements made by SAP, we have to isolate where Fiori is used.

    Fiori has been designed to be used with the S4 ERP system, at least in the beginning. Fiori has been broadened to work with other applications, but there are still very few S4 applications.
    S4 only works with HANA, and Fiori only works with HANA for roughly 83% of its …