Centralize Forecasting for Customer and Interplant Demands Using Planning Materials
Centralize Forecasting and Improve Delivery Lead Times by Planning Non-Variable Components of the Family of Products
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Centralize Forecasting for Customer and Interplant Demands Using Planning Materials
In a typical supply chain, organizations have field locations or distribution centers that stock inventory to cater to customer demands (sales orders) and the stocks are replenished by the manufacturing locations via stock transport orders. Without an SAP planning strategy, manufacturing locations would have trouble forecasting for sales orders and stock transport orders. Organizations can…
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Simulate Your Production and Procurement Planning with SAP LTP
SAP Long-Term Planning (LTP) functionality is used to simulate various business scenarios to help in production and procurement planning using existing master data and other information. Understand the end-to-end process of running LTP and evaluating the results. Key Concept SAP Long-Term Planning (LTP) provides an interactive as well as institutive tool for business simulation. It offers...…
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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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A Step Toward Understanding SAP S/4HANA Embedded PP/DS
Discover the new features introduced by the new SAP S/4HANA embedded Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS). Learn the necessary master data changes and how to run PP/DS on SAP S/4HANA. Key Concept SAP S/4HANA Embedded Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling is available on SAP S/4HANA release 1610. This functionality introduces in SAP S/4HANA the...…
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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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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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How to Optimize the Performance of MRP on SAP HANA
Learn how to activate the new material requirements planning (MRP) performance optimizations available as of SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 6.0, version for SAP HANA. Understand the differences between the classic MRP transactions and the new MRP Live and under which circumstances each one should be used. Key Concept As...…
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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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Create Consignment Fill-Up Sales Orders Using SAP APO SNP
Follow these prerequisite, configuration, and implementation steps to model the automatic creation of consignment fill-up sales orders in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) using Supply Network Planning (SNP) deployment functionality in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). This process enables the automatic planning and creation of sales orders from SAP APO. It minimizes the...…
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The WM-PP Interface: Key Issues for Filling Materials for Production or Process Orders
The WM-PP interface integrates the SAP R/3 Warehouse Management (WM) with the R/3 Production Planning-Process Industry (PP-PI) module to allow for correct quantities of production materials at the right time. The author shares his advice on how to avoid potential complications with the interface, including problems with production supply areas (PSAs) and failed goods movement...…
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