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  • How to Understand SAP Supply Network Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … is primarily a tool of operations. There was, at one time, a product called SEM. However, this product has died in the marketplace. The best way we know of to support SOP is with extracts from the SCM system.
    Collaborative Supply Planning: This opens up a web page and allows partners to enter values that persist in SNP.

    The SNP Environment
    The IMG environment area allows some housekeeping functions to be auctioned. This includes forecast generation, release to demand planning, mass maintenance of time series key figures, forecast to demand, and process chain maintenance.

    Planning in The Background
    This allows …

  • How to Understand PPDS Production Planning and Scheduling Heuristics

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … we doubt the ability of PPDS to be taken live at all with the optimizer if live means the majority of production orders are not to be manually adjusted after the optimization run.
    I run into clients who think they are performing constraint-based planning when running the PPDS heuristics, which is not correct. SAP consulting, sales, and support hides this fact from companies. You can’t get this information from Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, or any of the usual suspects. SAP consulting partners normally mislead their clients as to the status of PPDS implementations – repeating false claims made by SAP.

  • How to Understand EWM Outbound Functionality

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … as a standard warehousing application. Furthermore, the failure rate with EWM implementations has been extremely high along with the maintenance effort of EEM so high that there is a major question regarding its sustainability when taken live. The implementation history of EWM does not matter to SAP or their consulting partners. Consulting companies naturally continually line up to provide false information to their clients that EWM is a successful and useful application. The only way to sell EWM is to lie about the application and its implementation history.
    Addressing Failed EWM Projects
    If you are a company that has been …

  • How to Understand the SAP Sales Order Confirmation

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Sales orders can be initiated by 3rd party planning software.
    We cover the Shipping Tab and the Partner Function Tab, which allows the 3rd party planning software setup.

    Introduction to the Sales Order Confirmation
    The sales order confirmation can be initiated externally from SAP. You will learn how to configure this functionality.
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    How to Understand CTP - Capable to Promise in SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … built from second-hand information. I performed a search through this list and did not find any instances of CTP. CTP is extremely difficult because it requires both GATP and PP/DS implementation, and then their effective integration. This is beyond most companies because each application is difficult to get working properly, much less getting both working at a high level interdependently. Unfortunately, some companies do not understand, and their consulting partners do not tell them how difficult CTP is to achieve. APO is not a particularly conducive environment for CTP because it has problems with far less complex functionality.