Executive Summary SAP APO is supposedly set up for exception based planning, for which APO alerts are a major part of this process. Implementation experience shows that APO alerts are used very differently than proposed by SAP. We cover examples of the APO alert screens. Introduction to APO Alerts On every APO implementation, APO alerts…
Executive Summary The SNP optimizer is the CPLEX optimizer now owned by IBM. We cover how to use a heuristic with the optimizer and comparative optimizer settings, costs, ordinary optimizer, and problem segmentation problems. Introduction: Getting into Depth on the SNP Optimizer The SNP optimizer has many essential features not published due to those that…
Executive Summary How SAP has been busy pushing a solution that does not exist as a distinct product. An analysis of SAP PLM. Pushing SAP PLM For some time, SAP has been promoting its product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. PLM is a problematic term that more than a few companies have had a problem defining….
Executive Summary SNP and PPDS both use heuristics. We cover what are the different heuristics in PPDS and the two heuristics used by SNP. How frequently are the PPDS heuristics implemented versus the optimizer on actual projects? Introduction: The SNP Heuristic Versus the PPDS Heuristics As opposed to PPDS, there is just two SNP heuristic….