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  • How to Understand TLB Versus Best of Breed for Load Building

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    … ERP has already been sold into most of the companies that it will ever be, so the primary way that SAP grows its revenue is by taking over other enterprise software areas from the best of breed vendors. Therefore, there has been a strong emphasis driven by revenue maximization to place new development into applications outside of ERP so that SAP can motivate companies to buy extra products like APO and BI. Therefore, even functionality that should reside in ERP is not placed there, and there are numerous examples of that throughout the SAP universe of products.
    How Load Builders

  • How to Understand The Problems with the SAP PP/DS Optimizer

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    … DS is driven by costs. These costs are entered here:

    There are both costs for activities and costs related to delays. The relative magnitude of the costs controls the optimization. The objective function is to minimize costs.
    Converting Planned Orders to Production Orders
    This is triggered in APO or SAP ERP. /SAPAPO/RRP7
    Triggering the conversion from APO has the advantage that the connection between the deleted planned order and the new production order is considered. The production order is matched with the planned order and the operation dates are kept.
    The conversion of the planned order usually has to …

  • How to Understand The Production Scheduling and the DS Planning Board

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    … executives to get them to think functionality exists. It is not uncommon for vendors like SAP and Oracle to essentially set up a mock planning board and then never improve it.
    Detailed scheduling, so critical to many companies, is unfortunately not much more of a check-box for the major ERP vendors and executives who never touch the system. The large software firms that “dabble” in production scheduling like to have basic functionality surrounding but do not develop a full solution for. This applies to SAP as it is of many ERP vendors.
    How Easy Are Manual Changes?
    The Detailed …

  • How to Best Understand the Frozen Planning Period

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    … determines whether APO is used only for planning or for both planning and execution. This is true, at least for the planning oriented components of APO.
    However, this is only one way to peel the onion.
    Planning Versus Execution in APO
    While the official story from SAP is that SAP ERP is for execution and SAP APO is for planning, the actual story is more complex than that. APO has several execution elements to it. APO may never get to the point of cutting purchase orders, but a lot can be classified if not executional, then at least tactical.
    The …

  • Why Deloitte Has Problems Implementing SAP

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    … debate as to how many private individuals should sue under RICO statutes. However, it should be noted that many of the techniques employed by supposedly legitimate companies, like Deloitte, can be seen to fall into that category.
    The County also alleged that, after two years of working on the SAP ERP implementation, Deloitte collected over $11 million in fees even though it knew that the SAP system would not meet the County’s requirements.
    Through seeing Deloitte on many projects, we estimate that the Marin County experience is repeated at many clients across the country. However, most will never sue …

  • How to Understand SmartOps MIPO

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    … will be treated in supply planning.
    Thus MIPO requires the forecast from either the ERP system or planning system.
    The SmartOps Software Design
    After MIPO performs its calculations, SmartOps integrates to either the SAP execution or planning system by sending either parameter(s) that populate the material master in SAP ERP or actual safety stock values that populate the APO planning book.
    For companies that are not setting up service level agreements and which want a very simple and straightforward integration (as SmartOps only integrates master data and not transaction data to SAP) to either ERP or SAP) ERP, SmartOps …

  • How to Use Batch Management in EWM

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    Executive Summary

    Batch management is a functionality in EWM. Important areas in batch management are the batch record and the batch specification.
    This article covers the setup of batch management in EWM.

    Introduction
    Batch management is used to track individuals items in a supply chain at a batch level. It is a functionality within SAP ERP and is part of the logistics area. Batch management is used wherever individual batch traceability is required. This can be due to differentiated quality due to variable manufacturing output. It can also be due to legal requirements. For instance, pharmaceutical supply chains often employ …

  • Considering ILOG Inventory Optimization and Multi Echelon

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    … the past), but is better oriented where configuration, and even customization, are sought.
    Inventory Analyst
    Inventory Analyst seems like a possible solution for clients looking for an offline parameter calculator and simulation engine. I do not consider it a planning engine because it does not make recommendations that are sent to the ERP system, but rather interact with either the advanced planning or ERP system by overwriting master data.
    Gartner’s View
    As a general point, while Gartner stated that they found the rationalization between previous IBM products like DIOS and the new ILOG products now under IBM’s umbrella

  • How to Understand the SAP APO Product Group Types and Product Groups

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    Executive Summary

    We cover the available to promise or ATP Group, Product Groups, and Product Group Types.
    We cover Product Groups in EWM.

    What Are They?
    Product Groups are a form of aggregation. Product Groups and Product Group Types are organization methods for products. However, this is differentiated from the “Material Group,” which does not originate with APO, but with SAP ERP (although, as you will see further in this post, the two can be linked in configuration). There is also a Product Group in SAP ERP, but this is unrelated to the SAP APO Product Group that I will …

  • How to Define an Hierarchy Structure in SAP DP

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    … AFS: (Choose the location product hierarchy that you want to use for the processes of SAP Apparel and Footwear (AFS). This location product hierarchy serves to represent AFS material/plant combinations with the variants resulting from the material matrix. When you transfer an AFS material with its variants from the ERP system via Core Interface (CIF), the SCM system creates the material and the variants as location products – the material as header location product and the variants as sublocation products of the location product hierarchy specified here.) 
    LocProdHier AFS: Choose the hierarchy for production data structures (PDSs) that you want …