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    How to Understand the Production Data Structure

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    … PDS
    The SAP PDS is different from the PPM in that it cannot be created within APO, but the precursors must first be created in ECC and then be CIFed over to APO. The precursors are the following:
    “For each production version a production data structure (PDS) is generated in SAP APO. For this, the combination of routing and BOM from the production version is mapped in a production data structure in SAP APO” – SAP Help
    The BOM is well known among people that work in the supply chain, but the production version is often a bit more convoluted. The …

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    How to Understand Capacity Planning Tools in SNP

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    Executive Summary

    We cover the basics of capacity planning in SAP APO, including Resource Categories for SNP and Resource Types for SNP.
    There are capacity planning tools in MRP and heuristics.

    Introduction to Capacity Planning Tools
    Capacity planning is a broad description of how capacity is managed in a supply planning system. In this article, you will learn about the capacity planning tools within SNP.
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    How to Understand Transit Times from SAP ECC for APO

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    … MRP Type. Setting the MRP Type of “X0” means that an external planning engine does planning for the part. This is how planned parts are coded to be planned by APO, but the same field can code any part for external planning.
    This is discussed in the book Production Planning SAP APO – PP/DS by SAP Press.
    “In ECC, you define the MRP procedure in the MRP type field in the material master. Typical entries in this field are PD for MRP or VB for reorder point planning. However, both these entries are irrelevant for planning materials in APO. If …

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    Introduction to SAP GATP aka Global Available to Promise

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    … Introduction: Understanding GATP from Multiple Views
    Companies use GATP to enhance their availability checking capabilities over ATP checks in ECC. You will learn multidimensional aspects around GATP, including real implementation experiences from the module.
    What is GATP?
    SAP GATP is one of the most peculiar and complex modules within the SAP APO suite. This article will explain the important aspects of GATP. There are many other articles on GATP on this website, and in fact, this article links out to a number of these articles as it deals with various topics. But this article can be seen as the general …

  • How to Best Understand Supersession and Interchangability in SAP

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    … SAP ERP
    When an external system specializing in service parts planning tells SAP what to do, SAP can execute the external system’s recommendations. However, the question arises about what SAP ECC’s capabilities are with supersession.
    According to SAP web sources, supersession resides in:

    Advanced Planning and Scheduling (in SAP APO)
    Supply Chain Management
    Service Parts Management (within SAP APO)
    In SAP ECC

    Within SAP ECC, supersession is approximated by the Material Determination functionality. However, within SAP APO, SAP states that the rule-based Available to Promise check does provide this functionality. In ECC, product substitution functionality is called …

  • SAP Expert Documentation Service

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    … in order to apply these new Forecast Profiles to the appropriate products. In the next section we will review these Forecast Profiles and when they should be applied. Chapter 2: The Current DPI Forecasting Profiles will cover how Forecast Profiles will be assigned to products.
    Creating New Forecast Profiles

    Transaction: /SAPAPO/MC96B/
    Applies To: SMEs, Sr Manager of Demand Planning

    It is recognized that more Forecast Profiles, as well as improvements to existing Forecast Profiles will be necessary in the future. In the current design, both SMEs and the Sr. Manager of Demand Planning will have the ability to create …

  • How to Understand the Issues with Forecast Profile Assignment in SAP DP

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    … the case is not clear. Instead, a Selection Profile must be created in a Planning Book — and then that Selection Profile must be added to the product in this transaction.
    Problem 2: In a development error, the Selection Profiles in the Planning Book and the Selection Profiles available within the /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 are not named the same. One has to hunt and peck to find the right Selection Profile, and in fact, once created in the Planning Book, the Selection Profiles don’t consistently copy over to the /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 transaction.

    /SAPAPO/MSDP_FCST2 seems very straightforward, but …

  • How Parallel Processing for the SNP Cost Optimizer Does not Work

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    … the ABAP program “/SAPAPO/SAPLDM_PEGAREA” – in “CONFLICT_PARALLEL_TRANSACTION”. The message raised is /SAPAPO/PEGAREA 003, “Conflict with a parallel transaction on creation of pegging area”.
    Note: 1476001 (2010): When running SNP Optimizer and using the parallel processing profile, you notice that the bucket offset setup in the optimizer profile is ignored.
    Note: 958520 (2006): Parallel processing with the Deployment optimizer fails with error message: ‘Optimizer: Error reading optimizer profile XXXXXXX’ where XXXXXX is the name of the deployment optimizer profile.”
    Reacting to this Note
    This is amazing that SAP has had this set available on the optimizer …

  • How to Understand Order or Supply and Demand Selection for CTM

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    Executive Summary

    SAP CTM is designed to work off of both supply and demand selections.
    Order types are used in CTM to manage the prioritization. Objects are sorted in the supply and demand order selection, also known as ATP categories.

    Introduction
    We need to set up the Order Selection with the transaction (/SAPAPO/CTMORDSEL). This is misnamed; to be consistent, it should be called Supply and Demand Selection.
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  • How to Use the SAP SNP Optimizer Log for Analysis

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    … file with an unlimited number of logs can be maintained and compared indefinitely. IT has been keeping flat files to compare runs to understand what the optimizer has been doing over time.
    Here is the pathway to the Log.
    The log can be obtained by going to the transaction /N/SAPAPO/SNPOLOG.
    After you type in this transaction, the following screen will come up.

    The fields that are reviewed to understand input and outputs are:

    Start Date: Date optimizer was kicked off or started.
    Planning Version: describes the optimizer version (example: active or simulation).
    Application: defines which optimizer was run …