Maximizing SAP Supply Chain Performance with Reveal
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Efficient Production Planning Using SKU Groups with the SNP Optimizer
SCMFind out how to overcome the limitations of Supply Network Planning’s aggregate and block planning capabilities. Key Concept Aggregate planning is a feature in Supply Network Planning (SNP) whereby net requirements calculation from medium to long term can be executed at a product group level using aggregate objects such as SKU groups, location groups, resource...…
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Meet Demand-Driven Scheduling Requirements with SAP ERP and SAP APO: Q&A on When to Use Which for Enhanced Supply and Production Planning
SAP ERP and the production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) and supply network planning (SNP) components of SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) offer functionality that can be utilized in a variety of design options to optimize production plans and provide greater visibility into your inventory management, but when do you use which? Especially...…
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How to Avoid the “Domino Effect” in Production Planning
Changes made in the short-term planning horizon often create problems for the mid-term horizon, moving operations that should remain stable. You can avoid this problem in APO Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) using the deallocated status functionality, and the author explains how. Most companies divide their production planning horizon into several segments that correspond to short-,...…
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Production Planning for Today’s Supply Chain
Today’s customers expect a high degree of customization from manufacturers. To serve this “market of one,” manufacturers need efficient, effective processes that can operate nimbly, account for individual customer preferences, and offer short delivery times. Discover how the advanced production planning and scheduling functionality included in SAP S/4HANA can help you produce the right products…
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Configure Capable-to-Promise for Both External and Internal Demands
Learn how to configure Capable-to-Promise in SAP Global Available-to-Promise (GATP) in a manufacturing environment for both external as well as internal demands. Understand the various configuration aspects of both GATP and Production Planning (PP) /Detailed Scheduling (DS). Key Concept Production can be directly triggered through a Capable-to-Promise check within the SAP Global Available-to-Promise (GATP) module...…
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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 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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Effectively Manage Scrap in Your Production Processes
Discover how you can manage assembly and component scrap at various levels in an SAP system, including the master data and transactional data levels. In addition, see how to record scrap at the cost center level. Key Concept Successfully assigning assembly and component scrap in master data enables an SAP system to not only consider...…
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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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Streamline Your Company’s Production Rates with ATP Using SAP PP
Learn about the processes involved in production using Available-to-Promise (ATP) functionality. Read about the master data to be maintained in the system along with the main customizing settings available for this solution. Key Concept In SAP Production Planning (PP) the Available-to-Promise (ATP) check is carried out for the components of the main material. SAP Production...…
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