planning materials

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 enhance their SAP planning strategy by centralizing forecasting for both customer and interplant demand using planning materials. After reading this article you will be able to: - Centralize forecasting of non-variable components of assemble-to-order and make-to-order products to achieve better replenish lead times; - Set up “planning with a PM” strategy with enhanced capability of PM forecast; - Implement enhancements in your stock requirements list (MD04) and total requirements display (MD73) for accurate reporting on forecast consumption across your network; and - Set up master data and review execution results.

May 27, 2020

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11 minute read

Balancing supply and demand

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 Advanced Planning and Optimization, demand planning is designed as a platform so it must be tailored to an organization’s product types and nature of their business with various key figures, characteristics, data aggregations or disaggregation factors, planning object structures, planning areas, planning books, macros and data views to execute the process. This article will provide steps for implementing the solution, along with reasoning behind the configurations, prerequisites, navigation with transactions codes, relevant SAP notes, and tips and tricks for troubleshooting issues during implementation. In this article you will learn: - The essential steps of SAP demand planning configurations including time series, planning books, statistical forecasting, background job set up, and demand plan release to ECC; - Explanation of each configuration step involved with navigation path, transaction codes, and tables; and - Tips and tricks on configurations, performance optimization, and error resolutions.

May 21, 2020

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21 minute read