How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization

Improve Forecast Accuracy, Balance Demand and Supply, and Optimize Resource Utilization

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  1. Balancing supply and demand

    How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization

    Reading time: 21 mins

    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…

  2. 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...…

  3. How to Use ABC-XYZ Classification in SCM 7.0, Enhancement Package 2

    Find out how to harness the ABC-XYZ functionality of SCM 7.0, enhancement package 2 to automate classification of products and optimization of statistical forecast model selection according to historical sales value and the products’ value volatility. Follow 6 steps to set up SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) Demand Planning for product classification and forecast...…

  4. 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,...…

  5. 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...…

  6. Manage Role-Based Authorization for Cloud-Based SAP Integrated Business Planning

    Learn how to effectively manage stakeholder access for SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations 4.0. Key Concept SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process on the cloud. In SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales...…

  7. Improve Visibility of Critical Components Planning with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Sales and Operations

    Learn how to meet the challenges of visibility and planning of critical components by leveraging SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations. Key Concept SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process. In SAP Integrated Business...…

  8. 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...…

  9. SCM & PLM: Case study: How Callaway Golf drives sales order confirmations with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization global available-to-promise

    Learn how Callaway Golf implemented SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization global available-to-promise (global ATP) to improve sales order confirmations for its make-to-order hard goods business. here Manish Rathi If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You must be a…

  10. 10 Challenges of APO Implementation in the Consumer Goods Industry

    This case study by Rajesh Ray shows the innovative solutions companies adopted to meet challenges when implementing SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization. Key Concept Disaggregation is a process by which values at a higher level of the product hierarchy are distributed to individual products. The consumer goods industry has many industry-specific characteristics that present planning...…