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  • The APO ATP Booster Alternative to the GATP Rules Based ATP Check

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … done.
    Source Determination in requirement documents like sales orders and stock transport orders needs to respect several constraints in a vast supply network, and the same cannot be ‘modelled’ with master data like Rules Based ATP check.

    About SAP GATP’s History
    GATP has been the most abused module in SAP APO.
    The abuse was primarily driven by a basic set of delivery plant determination in Sales Order/Requirement Documents in SAP standard. The regular basis of delivery for location determination and the ATP check on that delivery location was the default delivery plants based on customer, material, or customer …

  • The Planning Master Data Evaluation Booster

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … programmatic check to flag the planner of some vital data that, if incorrectly maintained, can have disastrous consequences.
    Many implementations of SNP and PPDS generate production, distribution, and deployment plans based on highly inaccurate master data.
    You cannot always blame the original ‘owner’ of master data as master data in SAP APO. This is because SAP requires a continuous review of its completeness, accuracy, sufficiency, and currency.
    This is because of the following reasons.

    Planners are completely dis-empowered when it comes to carrying out ‘sanity’ checks of master data.
    They often depend on SAP Support Consultants who generally have …

  • The APO Maintenance Booster: Demand Planning in the Background

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Maintaining the demand planning in the background in SAP is a high maintenance activity.
    We provide a booster that significantly improves setting up DP processing in the background.

    Introduction
    Twenty-two years and several releases later, SAP APO (later renamed as SAP SCM since version 5.0) still manages to live with a basic set of ‘T-Codes’ for defining Activities and Jobs for Demand Planning in the Background.
    See our references for this article and related articles at this link.
    In this article, we will describe the limitations and how to overcome them with The APO Maintenance …

  • When to Use Reorder Point Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … send a forecast to the supply planning system, and the supply planning system will still manage quite well. Therefore, a simple moving average forecast can be sent for unforecastable products or no forecast at all.

    A graphical presentation of how reorder points are set. 

    Where reorder points are set in SAP APO, see the bottom of the screen. Further, we will describe the importance of setting reorder points external to ERP or the planning system. 
    Reorder Point Planning for Deployment/Outbound Supply Planning
    Until this point, we have discussed reorder point planning for the initial supply plan, which generates the …

  • How Does SAP IBP Work?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … material, it is confusing as to IBP’s scope. The concept was that IBP would be just S&OP to begin but later grow to encapsulate the planning that exists in the DP, SNP modules at least. GATP and PP/DS have been moved over to S/4HANA, or at least partially. This means that the intent is to keep IBP at a high level of abstraction than SAP APO.
    The following is one of the better slides I have found on IBP’s integration to other systems.

    This solution diagram shows IBP being fed by BW, by the Material

  • What is SAP IBP Used For?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … one reads SAP’s IBP material is confusing as to IBP’s scope. The concept was that IBP would be just S&OP to begin but later grow to encapsulate the planning that exists in the DP, SNP modules at least. GATP and PP/DS have been moved over to S/4HANA, or at least partially. This means that the intent is to keep IBP at a high level of abstraction than SAP APO.
    IBP Implementations?
    Even in 2020, over seven years after IBP was first introduced, there have not been all that many IBP implementations. One site we use

  • What is SAP IBP S&OP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … material is confusing as to IBP’s scope. The concept was that IBP would be just S&OP to begin but later grow to encapsulate the planning that exists in the DP, SNP modules at least. GATP and PP/DS have been moved over to S/4HANA, or at least partially. This means that the intent is to keep IBP at a high level of abstraction than SAP APO.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J4ldEby3_0
    This is a video produced by SAP on IBP. Some of it is educational, but nothing from SAP can be believed without first

  • Does SAP IBP Replace APO?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Our Research Orientation
    As one of the virtually only independent entities that cover SAP or SAP APO, and unlike Gartner or Forrester as one that takes no money from any vendor, we are in a unique position to address this topic with far higher accuracy than the traditional article on IBP which is either designed to sell IBP license or IBP consulting services. So we …

  • Why SAP IBP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Our Research Orientation
    As one of the virtually only independent entities that cover SAP or SAP APO, and unlike Gartner or Forrester as one that takes no money from any vendor, we are in a unique position to address this topic with far higher accuracy than the traditional article on IBP which is either designed to sell IBP license or IBP consulting services. So we …

  • Is SAP IBP Good?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Internet. In reading through IBP articles that were rated highly in Google, it was shocking to read the articles’ low quality. Many of them contained erroneous information not only about APO and IBP but about planning in general. Neither IBM nor Deloitte nor Infosys, nor any other SAP consulting firm cares about the answer to the question of is SAP IBP good; they want to sell some IBP consulting hours to you.
    As one of the virtually only independent entities that cover SAP or SAP APO, and unlike Gartner or Forrester as one that takes no money from any …