Transitioning from APO to SAP IBP with CloudPaths

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  1. SAP Integrated Business Planning for Sales and Operations: Q&A on How to Optimize Demand and Supply Planning and Increase Profitability

    When it comes to your supply chain, accuracy, efficiency, swift and informed decision making, and timely responses and adjustments to market and business changes are critical — but a lack of communication between sales, marketing, finance, and operations can be a significant impediment to these goals. The ability to effectively and simultaneously evaluate data from...…

  2. 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...…

  3. Implementing SAP IBP Analytic Stories to Improve Supply Chain

    he SAP IBP Analytics Stories App, while incorporating several features from the SAP SAC product, remains exclusive to the SAP IBP product. Consequently, not all functionalities of SAP SAC are present in SAP IBP Analytics Stories. However, like all SAP products, enhancements are expected over time and SAP IBP Analytics Stories roadmap is still valid…

  4. Transitioning from APO to SAP IBP with CloudPaths

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    SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) has long been a staple for real-time supply chain management, enabling coordination from suppliers to consumers. However, with SAP phasing out support for APO by 2027, users face potential operational risks without ongoing maintenance solutions. Transitioning to SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) emerges as a strategic move to preserve…

  5. What you need to know about SAP ERP and APO data transfer using CIF: Q&A with SCM 2014 speaker Claudio Gonzalez

    Thank you everyone who joined us for our Q&A with SCM 2014 speaker Claudio Gonzalez of SCM Connections. Claudio answered reader questions on troubleshooting SAP ERP and APO data transfer with the CIF (core interface). Questions for Claudio included: If we CIF subcontracting SNP PDS, will it create any transportation lanes in APO? When should we use inbound queues...…

  6. 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…

  7. 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...…

  8. What to Consider When Integrating PP-PI in APO SNP and PP/DS

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    Watch out for surprises when you integrate Production Planning for Process Industries with Advanced Planning and Optimization. Learn how to best set up recipes and capacity consumption in this environment to avoid errors. Key Concept Production Planning for Process Industries (PP- PI) is a planning tool in R/3 and SAP ERP Central Component used in...…

  9. Inventory Planning and Optimization with SAP Advanced Safety Stock Planning and SAP SmartOps

    Read two case studies to learn how to implement SAP APO Advanced Safety Stock Planning (ASSP) and SAP SmartOps Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO). Key Concept SAP SmartOps Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) provides a comprehensive, enterprise-wide process for optimizing, managing, and monitoring inventory stocking levels for finished product and raw material components across the supply chain. ...…

  10. Probabilistic Supply Chain and Demand Forecasting with SAP IBP: Deliver Results Using Data Science

    SAP introduced the concept of Probabilistic Supply Chain into its SAP IBP product in the current and future versions with adaptive and very powerful algorithms for large data sets. Certainly, AI has been around within the SAP landscape for a while with extremely powerful algorithms in the SAP BW-Data Mining suite and SAP HANA PAL…