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  • Setting Up the Planning Area for Aggregated Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Planning areas must be set up to use SAP APO. To do so, it is necessary to set up the unit of measure and currency.
    To perform aggregation, it is necessary to understand SAP’s explanation of aggregation and aggregation types in SAP APO.

    Planning Area Setup
    To do begin the first step, it is important to understand all of the options in the planning area. I do this below and emphasize the options related to aggregation.
    The planning area is based on the planning object structure. The planning object structure holds the key figures that are used …

  • Book on The Best Process Industry Manufacturing Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Process Industry Manufacturing Software: ERP, Planning, Process Control, Recipe Mgmt. & MES Software
    Screenshots and examples from PlanetTogether, AspenTech, HamiltonGrant, ProcessPro, SAP APO, and SAP ERP. 
    What This Book Is About
    The only book which covers process industry manufacturing software, this book covers many different types of process industry manufacturing environments. It describes how the planning needs of the process industries are so unique and stand apart from discrete or repetitive manufacturing. In the book, you will learn how to batch production and batch manufacturing is related to discrete production, and how batch production and batch manufacturing is also related to …

  • Our Books on Production and Manufacturing Software

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    Constrained Supply and Production Planning in SAP APO
    What the Book is About
    Constraint-based planning generates something that is appealing to all manufacturers: a feasible supply and production plan. However, constraint-based planning software was first implemented over twenty years ago, and yet few companies have mastered constraint-based planning. This book provides the background information, detailed explanations, step-by-step examples, and (see more)

    Superplant: Creating a Nimble Manufacturing Enterprise with Unique Planning Software
    Screenshots and examples from PlanetTogether and SAP APO. 
    What This Book Is About
    Some companies have the requirement to be able to perform multi …

  • Our Book on the Best Multi Plant Production Planning

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    Superplant: Creating a Nimble Manufacturing Enterprise with Adaptive Planning Software
    Screenshots and examples from PlanetTogether and SAP APO. 
    What The Book Covers
    In an environment of increasingly globalized manufacturing, a very long production line that spans the globe is more common than ever.
    For an increasing number of corporations, multi-plant planning is a reality. “Superplant” describes the ability to plan separate locations as if they were part of one giant plant – or superplant, and is the more accurate modeling of location interdependencies for production and supply planning than is provided by standard advanced planning functionality. This book delves into …

  • The Differing Supply Network and Unmatched STOs and STRs in APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the other APO resource from this discussion below:
    “In order to reflect an externally determined or manually created redeployment, redeployment stock transport orders are necessary between DCs. This means transportation lanes must be set up in SNP in order for stock transport orders to come over from SAP ERP to SAP APO / SCM. This is true if STOs are created in SAP ERP. In fact, the CIF —which moves STOs from SAP ERP to SAP APO / SCM—will not be able to bring STOs over to SAP APO / SCM that are created in ECC.”
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    Conclusion
    Issues with …

  • How to Understand APO Available to Promise Categories

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … viewed in the category program/view:

    The Available to Promise Category Characteristics
    The definitions below are mostly from SAP Help, but with some commentary here and there from me.

    Category Code: (i.e. AA, AB, AC, AD, AE, etc..) This describes the various stock, receipt, requirement, and forecast categories in SAP APO.
    Description: 
    Sort:
    Category Type: (Stock, Receipts, Requirement, Forecast) 
    MRP Element: Contains the relevant MRP element indicator of the R/3 Available to Promise Category
    Category Only Relevant on Sublocation Level: Specifies whether a category is relevant for an ATP check on both location and sublocation level. In principle …

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    How to Adopt a Field on the Product Location Master and Displaying in the Planning Book

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … criteria, the next question becomes how to add the field to the shuffler so it can be used as a selection in the planning book.

    Unfortunately, there is no standard way to configure this. For some reason, SAP requires that you run a BADI, which is the BADI /SAPAPO/SDP_SELECTOR. I quote from Andrew Zugay at the SAP SNC website.
    “There is a method called INIT_OBJECT_LIST which populates the selection field list in the shuffler – this is the first step. The method F4 is where you will need to provide the F4 values when the dropdown …

  • The Goods Receipt Processing Time and the Handling Resource

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … GRPT in the product location master.
    In this case, we are discussing a goods receipt handling resource, so it is a handling-in resource, for which SAP has the following definition:
    “Resource that is loaded by incoming stock transfers (SNP stock transfers) in the time between arrival of the stock transfers and material availability at the warehouse (goods receipt processing time).” – SAP Help
    Background on The Handling Resource
    Also referred to as a “handling unit resource,” a handling resource is one of the resource types in SAP APO (the others being production, transportation, and warehouse). Handling resource performs both goods

  • How to Capacity Constrain Vendor Locations in SAP SNP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … or capable of matching (CTM), its planned orders will be created in a capacity-constrained way, and the planner will never have to go into the product location combination and perform capacity leveling. This requires that the supplier/vendor provide updated capacity information to its customer – the company running the SAP APO instance.
    Modeling a Slave Plant
    The second type of constraining is active constraining. This scenario is more appropriate when the company uses contract manufacturing, or the plant is mostly a “slave plant” to the company running the SAP APO instance.
    The Rise of Contract Manufacturing
    Over the past …

  • A Debate on How to Recover SAP DP for Forecasting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … I would never recommend combining SAS and SAP SCM DP. For one, you end up with a very complex solution, as the quote from SAS indicates:
    “Web services launch the requests from SAP to SAS and the RFC to efficiently move data to and from SAP lifeCache.” – SAS Forecasting for SAP APO
    Sounds sexy, but the question should be asked,
    “Why spend time trying to connect a superior forecasting solution to an inferior one, why not just implement the superior forecasting software and save yourself integration work and expense.”
    SAS has an answer for this in their white paper on …