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The Future Operational Planning Landscape Is Here: Time to Transition from APO to SAP S/4 and SAP IBP
Click Here to View the Session Deck. As industries evolve, the need for advanced operational planning tools becomes imperative. This session explores the paradigm shift from Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) to Production Planning and Scheduling in SAP S/4HANA (ePPDS) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). By delving into the roadmap, migration strategies, and system landscape,...…
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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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Improve Your Cost Center Planning with Driver-Based Planning
See how to plan cost center activities automatically with driver-based planning. Learn how it works in both manufacturing and service departments. Key Concept Driver-based planning is a best practice in the manufacturing industry, in which companies often use the sales plan as a starting point for the production plan and the production plan to determine...…
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Integrate Your SAP Data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
The purpose and the semantics of transaction level data in SAP ERP can differ significantly from what business users expect to see in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation when they perform their forecasting and consolidation activities. Taking these differences into account when integrating data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is often more complex than...…
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4 Keys to Unlock SAP APO
SAPexperets/SCMWhen determining which Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) modules to deploy for specific business problems, you should be familiar with four key concepts: planning time horizons, order-versus-time series structures, SCM business processes, and the APO configuration process. Find out how these four concepts can help you plan your APO implementation. Key Concept A planning horizon...…
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How to Configure and Test Flexible Planning to Improve Performance and Increase Profits
A good conceptual understanding of the Flexible Planning component of SAP Sales and Operations Planning (SAP SOP) helps reduce the number of cyclic iterations in Information Structure configurations and test its impact on the planning type before choosing the final design. Learn the necessary steps to configure Flexible Planning in your SAP system, including configuring...…
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SEM vs. R/3 for Financial Statement Planning
Very few organizations have not performed some variation of financial statement planning at one time or another. These plans are usually produced to fulfill legal statutes or regulatory filings, so much time is often put into their accuracy. Private-sector organizations often engage in this type of activity on a weekly basis. The process involves the...…
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Best Practices for Implementing Sales and Operations Planning
The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process can bring about substantial improvements in the way a company manages its supply chain. Learn the building blocks of the S&OP process, what it needs in terms of technology, and how this is supported in different SAP solutions. Key Concept Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is the process...…
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Express Planning Gives Managers Access to Plan Data in Multiple Systems
Express Planning is a self-service Web functionality in mySAP ERP 2005 that gives managers the ability to extract the data they need during the budgeting process, even if the data is in a different system. They also can write data back to various modules and monitor variances without any external help. Express Planning masks the...…
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Not Your Same Old Advanced Planning System Implementation!
Panelists: Robert Birdsall and Ryan Rickard, SCMO2 Date: September 6 Sponsor: IBP Bootcamp and SCM 2018 Gone are the days of engaging a System Integrator and waiting nine to twelve months for the first in a series of rollouts. With today’s cloud platform, and specifically SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), the platform is upgraded...…
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