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    The Disconnection Points Between SNP and PP/DS

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Identifying the disconnection points.
    Labor pools
    The Time Dimension of SNP Versus PP/DS.
    Understanding the Standard Sequential Approach to Supply and Production Planning.

    Disconnection Points Between Supply and Production Planning in APO
    There are several disconnection areas between supply planning and production planning applications like SNP and PP/DS as a model for the traditional sequential processing of supply planning and production planning applications in general. PP/DS has a changeover/Setup Matrix, which reduces the useful working time of production resources. But while SNP hypothetically has the ability to incorporate the Setup Matrix, in practice, it …

  • How to Share Resources Between SNP and PP/DS

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … mixed resource. For SNP planning, the amount of bucket capacity utilized by PP/DS orders is displayed as an aggregated capacity requirement. SNP planning can therefore take account of the PP/DS orders. For PP/DS planning, the time-continuous capacity used by SNP orders is not displayed.” – SAP Help
    Supply planning in APO, in SNP, is generally set to bucket oriented planning, while PP/DS is set to time continuous planning.
    This is shown in the screenshots below:

    This is a tab on the resource populated for how APO will treat the resource for any time continuous applications. PP …

  • Our Book on How to Set Up the Supply Network in SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Setting Up the Supply Network in SAP APO 
    What The Book Covers
    Never before has a supply planning book concentrated solely on setting up the Supply Network Planning (SNP) model in SAP APO, the most fully-featured supply chain planning suite on the market.
    This book is the only book on supply planning to focus entirely on how to set up supply networks in APO, and how to meet highly-customized requirements that relate to supply network design. You won’t even find these topics covered in depth in SAP Training classes!
    Companies should evaluate multiple supply network designs thoroughly …

  • Our Book on the Best Multi Plant Production Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    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 …

  • Our Book on How to do Constrained Planning in SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … supply and production planning work together (and how they don’t). Also, this book talks about constraint-based production planning at the supplier level: can a vendor’s production be capacity-constrained?
    By reading this book, you will learn:

    The different resources available in APO, how production resources differ from supply planning resources, and the role resources and other essential constraints play in constraint-based production planning.
    How constraints integrate across the supply planning and production planning applications.
    The areas of disconnect between supply and production planning applications, and between SNP and PP/DS in particular.
    The difference between unconstrained …

  • Planning Horizons, Planning Calendars and Timings in SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Site
    How Writing Bias Is Controlled at SCM Focus and SCM Focus Press

    Chapter 2: DP Planning Horizons, Planning Calendars, and Timings

    Storage Buckets and Planning Buckets
    Storage Bucket Profile in the System
    The Planning Bucket Profile
    Initializing Planning Area
    DP Period Split
    Releasing the Forecast from DP to SNP
    DP Planning Calendar/Time Stream
    Demand Planning Frequency
    Conclusion

    Chapter 3: SNP Planning Horizons, Planning Calendars, and Timings

    Supply Planning Horizon for S&OP, the Rough Cut Capacity Plan and the Initial Supply Plan
    SNP Heuristic Time Stream
    CTM Time Stream
    Cost Optimization Time Stream
    The Deployment Planning Thread
    The

  • Our Book on Using Multiple Methods of Planning in SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … no one supply planning method meets all requirements and lists the many benefits of using multiple supply planning methods. It gives practical advice about selecting supply planning methods and method modifiers and goes deep into the “how-to” of implementing mixed methods.
    By reading this book, you will:

    Understand the supply planning methods available within SAP SNP.
    Separate the sales rhetoric from the truth when making software purchasing decisions.
    Discover prototypes and the benefits of testing supply planning methods before implementation.
    Explore the information and human challenges of combining multiple supply planning methods.
    Make multiple supply planning methods work together …

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

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Supply Network
    San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Portland, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Seattle, Phoenix

     Sub-Problem 1 Product: A Locations: San Diego, Los Angeles
    Sub-Problem 2 Product: B Locations: Portland, Seattle, Phoenix

    Each subproblem is the sub-network of that product.
    This is an example taken from my book Supply Planning with MRP, DRP, and APS Software.
    On the other hand, resource decomposition would look like the following:
    Overall Resource Network
    San Diego Bottling Resource, San Diego Liquid Resource, Napa Valley Bottling Resource, Napa Valley Liquid Resource

     Sub-Problem 1 Product: A Resources: San Diego Bottling Resource, San Diego …

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

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … in SNP (although it does exist in SPP), and most companies that implement SNP have at least some redeployment needs.
    Redeployment is explained in the following article.
    This is part of a larger topic which is covered in a future book titled “Multi Method Supply Planning in SAP APO,” and I include only a small snippet of the overall topic in this article to show the reoccurring issue of unmatched stock transport orders and STRs in a variety of areas.
    I have included a quotation of the other APO resource from this discussion below:
    “In order to reflect an …

  • How to Delete Old Forecasts from SNP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … forecast was the original value that was entered into the SNP planning book from DP. Forecasting is the estimation of demand outside of the supply planning lead-time. DP is the “system of record” for forecasts, so any adjustments made in the supply planning system – SNP does not go back to DP. Therefore we have full leeway to change the forecast to meet the parochial needs of supply planning.
    Changes to forecasts within the supply planning lead time are not forecasting, although they can be useful, such as in this scenario. However, it should never be used to “adjust …