Demand-Driven Planning – Step 5 - Visible and Collective Execution
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How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization
SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, demand planning allows a business to perform forecasting of their materials while considering all the factors that affect the demand. Demand planning is periodic and contains multi-step processes such as data gathering, statistical analysis, reviewing market intelligence reports, and performing adjustments against budgeted forecast to drive material requirements planning. SAP…
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Advanced Demand Planning with S&OP and SAP HANA
Learn how to meet the challenges of integrating SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) statistical forecasting with SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and SAP HANA. Key Concept SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process. In SAP S&OP,...…
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From Demand Planning to Demand Signal Management: Pros and Cons of Five Demand Management Solutions
This article compares demand management options in five SAP solutions and discusses Demand Signal Management (DSiM), a new, SAP HANA-based solution, including a case study of a company that adopted the technology. Key Concept Demand Signal Management (DSiM) is an SAP HANA-based solution that helps in sensing demand from a variety of data sources, such as...…
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Exploit Demand Planning to Forecast Dependent Requirements in SAP APO
Learn the process flow of an SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) forecast with bills of material (BOM). Follow a step-by-step procedure to release a forecast and interpret the results. Key Concept Demand Planning (DP) in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) helps to generate forecasts based on historical values. Forecasting is generally done...…
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Demand Planning Alerts Increase the Accuracy of Your Forecasts
One of the biggest problems facing demand planners is spotting trends and errors in large volumes of data. You can use the alert functionality in SAP APO Demand Planning module to spot discrepancies, allowing your demand planners to “manage by exception.” We explain the different ways in which you can use alerts to help create...…
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Report Design from Start to Finish with the SAP APO Demand Planning Add-In for Microsoft Excel
Learn how to create reports in the new SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) demand planning add-in for Microsoft Excel from scratch. Follow a use case to help you understand the prerequisites for using this functionality. Key Concept The SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) demand planning add-in for Microsoft Excel provides a...…
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Perform Demand Planning Over the Web
SAP APO 4.1 provides a collaborative planning platform for Demand Planning (DP) that helps you to capture demand directly from customers or from your field sales force over the Internet. Learn tips from a recent implementation, and take advantage of improvements in key performance measures like forecast accuracy. Key Concept SAP APO 4.1 has an...…
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How to Reduce the Bullwhip Effect by Following a Demand-Driven Supply Chain Strategy
Learn how to integrate consumer demand signals to achieve a demand-driven supply chain that is used to optimize short-term forecasts and increase demand network visibility. From a demand planning perspective, planners can now compare the traditional consensus demand forecasts with a point-of-sale (POS) statistical forecast and therefore apply corrections based on true consumer demand. From...…
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Streamline Master Data Maintenance in Demand Planning
Learn the process flow of realigning data and copying characteristic value combinations (CVC) in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Demand Planning (DP). Follow a step-by-step procedure to understand the prerequisites, importance, configuration, and execution of the CVC maintenance process and interpretation of results. Key Concept Demand Planning (DP) in SAP Advanced Planning and...…
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Enterprise-Class Demand Planning at Agilent Technologies
For Agilent Technologies, a manufacturer of analytical instruments for the life science and laboratories sector, growth has been dramatic over recent years, including a number of acquisitions. Such growth has caused the company’s pathology division to experience a rapid expansion of sales, but also revealed that the division had outgrown its demand planning practices, which…
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