SAP APO / SCM Course
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This course is intended for current or future project members of APO implementations. This should be attended by all those who need to understand the principles of the system to judge the viability of business requirements and processes. The course includes the usage of the respective transactions in order to provide the skills for typical prototyping work in a project.
Prerequisite
A sound logistics business background as well as good understanding of supply chain management principles are assumed. SAP R 3 knowledge of the SAP MM, SAP SD and PP modules is of some advantage but not a strict prerequisite. The same applies to the SAP Graphical User Interface (GUI). It is assumed that the student is familiar with the Windows environment.
Day 1- Demand Planning
- Introductions, APO Overview
- Overview of Demand Planning Concept
- Datamart, info-cubes & Demand Planning
- Planning area and Planning Books
- Macros & Notes
- Interactive Planning
- Statistical toolbox, Promotions and Life Cycle Planning
Day 2- Supply Network Planning / Core Interface (CIF):
- Mass Processing and Release of Plans
- Exception Processing and Alert Generation
- Overview of Supply Planning Concept
- Supply Planning, Interactive Supply Planning, Integration with other SCM components
- Planning Methods: Heuristics, Optimization & CTM
- Deployment
- Transport Load Builder
- Releasing Supply Plans to DP, PPDS, ECC
- CIF Core Interface : Introduction to Architecture of Integration
- Master Data, Integration to R/3
Day 3- Global Available-to-Promise:
- Planning in ECC - APO with Integration
