Supply Chain Management with SAP APO™ - Structures, Modelling Approaches and Implementation of SAP SCM™ 2008

Preface

Contents

Part I – Overview

1 SCM Projects with SAP APO™

1.1 The Supply Chain Management Approach

1.2 Supply Chain Management Projects with SAP APO

1.3 SAP APOTM Project Management and Peculiarities

2 SCM Processes and SAP APO™ Modules

3 SAP APOTM Architecture

3.1 Technical Building Blocks of SAP APO

3.2 Master Data Overview

3.3 Model and Version

3.4 Planners

3.5 Order Categories

3.6 Pegging

3.7 Data Locking

Part II – Demand Planning

4 Demand Planning

4.1 Demand Planning Overview

4.2 Data Structure for Demand Planning

4.3 Planning Book, Macros and Interactive Planning

4.4 Statistical Forecasting

4.5 Promotion Planning

4.6 Dependent Demand in Demand Planning

4.7 Collaborative Forecasting

4.8 Background Planning

4.9 Release of the Demand Plan

5 Forecast Consumption and Planning Strategies

5.1 Make-to-Stock

5.2 Make-to-Order

5.3 Planning with Final Assembly

5.4 Planning Without Final Assembly

5.5 Planning for Assembly Groups

5.6 Technical Settings for the Requirements Strategies

Part III – Order Fulfilment

6 Order Fulfilment Overview

7 Sales

7.1 Sales Order Entry

7.2 Availability Check Overview

7.3 Master Data and Configuration

7.4 Product Availability Check

7.5 Allocations

7.6 Forecast Check

7.7 Rules-Based ATP

7.8 Transportation and Shipment Scheduling

7.9 Backorder Processing

8 Transportation Planning

8.1 Transportation Planning Overview

8.2 Master Data and Configuration

8.3 TP/VS Planning Board

8.4 TP/VS Optimisation

8.5 Scheduling

8.6 Carrier Selection

8.7 Collaboration

8.8 Release and Transfer to SAP ERP™

8.9 Dynamic Route Determination

Part IV – Distribution

9 Distribution and Supply Chain Planning Overview

9.1 Distribution and Supply Chain Planning Scenarios

9.2 Applications for Distribution and Supply Chain Planning

9.3 Order Cycle for Stock Transfers

9.4 Integration of Stock Transfers to SAP ERP™

9.5 SNP Planning Book

10 Integrated Distribution and Production Planning

10.1 Cases for Integrated Planning

10.2 SNP Optimiser

10.3 Capable-to-Match

11 Distribution Planning

11.1 Master Data for Distribution Planning

11.2 SNP Heuristic

11.3 Planned Stock Transfers

11.4 Stock in Transit

11.5 Storage and Handling Restrictions

11.6 Sourcing

12 Replenishment

12.1 Deployment

12.2 Transport Load Builder

Part V – Production

13 Production Overview

13.1 Production Process Overview

13.2 Applications for Production Planning

13.3 Feasible Plans

13.4 Master Data for Production

13.5 Dependencies to the SAP ERP™ Configuration

14 Rough-Cut Production Planning

14.1 Basics of Rough-Cut Production Planning

14.2 SNP Heuristic

14.3 Capacity Levelling

14.4 SNP Optimisation for Production Planning

14.5 Capable-to-Match (with SNP Master Data)

14.6 Scheduling in SNP

14.7 Integration to PP/DS and SAP ERP™

15 Detailed Production Planning

15.1 Basics of PP/DS

15.2 Heuristics for Production Planning

15.3 Consumption Based Planning

15.4 Material Flow and Service Heuristics

15.5 Tools for Visualisation and Interactive Planning

15.6 Reporting

15.7 Special Processes for Production Planning

15.8 Capable-to-Match (with PP/DS Master Data)

16 Sales in a Make-to-Order Environment

16.1 Process Peculiarities and Overview

16.2 Capable-to-Promise

16.3 Multi-level ATP

17 Detailed Scheduling

17.1 Planning Board

17.2 Basics of Detailed Scheduling

17.3 Scheduling Heuristics

17.4 Sequence Dependent Set-up

17.5 Sequence Optimisation

18 Production Execution

18.1 Planned Order Conversion

18.2 ATP Check and Batch Selection

18.3 Production Order Handling

19 Modelling of Special Production Conditions

19.1 Alternative Resources

19.2 Modelling of Labour

19.3 Overlapping Production

19.4 Fixed Pegging and Order Network

19.5 Push Production

Part VI – External Procurement

20 Purchasing

20.1 Purchasing Overview

20.2 Suppliers and Procurement Relationships

20.3 Supplier Selection

20.4 Scheduling Agreements

20.5 Supplier Capacity

21 Subcontracting

21.1 Subcontracting Process Overview

21.2 Modelling of the Production at the Receiving Plant

21.3 Modelling of the Production at the Supplier

21.4 Subcontracting Process Variants

21.5 Subcontracting in SNP

Part VII – Cross Process Topics

22 Stock and Safety Stock

22.1 Stock Types in SAP APO

22.2 Safety Stock

23 Interchangeability

23.1 Interchangeability Overview

23.2 Interchangeability in DP

23.3 Interchangeability in SNP

23.4 Interchangeability in PP/DS

23.5 Interchangeability in ATP

24 Exception Reporting

24.1 Basics of Alert Monitoring

24.2 Alert Types

24.3 Alert Handling

24.4 Alert Calculation in the Background

24.5 Supply Chain Cockpit

Part VIII – System Integration

25 Core Interface

25.1 Overview of the Core Interface

25.2 Configuration of the Core Interface

25.3 Integration Models and Data Transfer

25.4 Master Data Integration

25.5 Transactional Data Integration

25.6 Operational Concept

26 Integration to DP

26.1 Data Storage in Info Cubes

26.2 Data Loading Structures

26.3 Data Upload

Appendix

References

Transactions and Reports

Index