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How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and OptimizationMay 21, 2020 — 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.
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Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change ManagementMay 4, 2020 — Change management emerged as the top challenge for SAP deployments in previous SAPinsider research. For Breakthru Beverage Group — a North American alcoholic beverage wholesaler headquartered in Cicero, Illinois — the successful implementation of SAP HANA 2.0-based business intelligence products required an evolution in its change management strategy. SAPinsider recently interviewed Desmond Foley, Solutions Architect for Business Intelligence at Breakthru Beverage, to understand how the company effectively communicated with different sets of stakeholders to improve the usage and user acceptance of SAP HANA-based analytics tools.
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5 Steps of S&OP to Achieve an Integrated Business PlanApr 28, 2020 — Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a set of decision-making processes that regulate and coordinate overall capacity, inventory levels, and lead times across engineering, projects, manufacturing, finance, supply chain, and operations based on forecast information about the market. S&OP focuses on changes from the previous plan and links that with the strategic goals of cost and lead time reduction to determine suitable capacity adjustment actions. This article will provide the framework and key concepts to using SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Supply Chain to effectively balance demand and supply and attain financial targets.
After reading this article you will be able to:
- List and define the five essential steps of S&OP
- Explain how S&OP fits into the larger manufacturing planning and control hierarchy
- Apply the components of S&OP to data gathering, demand and supply planning, and supplier collaboration
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Achieve Excellence in Sales and Operations PlanningApr 24, 2020 — Sales and operations planning (S&OP) functions live at the tactical level of the planning hierarchy in an environment that synchronizes demand, inventory, and supply plans and considers profit objectives. S&OP has been discussed in multiple forums over the years because of the value it delivers to the organization as whole. In this article you will gain an understanding of key business drivers impacting S&OP processes and the stakeholders who are affected by decisions made as a result. This article will also review how to create a business case to justify an implementation of SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (IBP) and factors to consider when selecting a partner to implement SAP IBP.
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Hunter Douglas Gets Illumination from SAP S/4HANA ConsolidationApr 20, 2020 — Window treatment company Hunter Douglas, like many SAP customers, has grown through a continuing series of acquisitions. As business owners come into the family, they benefit from the organization’s minimum interference approach, however, the decentralized model presented challenges over time, particularly in supply chain management and purchasing. Learn how Hunter Douglas consolidated its business processes and SAP ERP systems into one cloud-based SAP S/4HANA solution, which led to better enterprise visibility, improved decision making, more efficient operations, and faster customer service.
7 minute read
Supply Chain During Times of COVID-19Apr 14, 2020 — Society’s increased reliance on certain products during COVID-19 and a dramatic drop in demand for others has disrupted supply chains around the world. Read what two experts in the field have to say about the impacts and learn how they're using SAP technology to navigate the changes.
7 minute read
Medical Equipment Manufacturer Prevents Equipment Shortages During COVID-19 OutbreakApr 13, 2020 — This SAPinsider case study shares how a large global diagnostic medical equipment manufacturer implemented business contingency plans to prepare for the increased demand and disrupted supply chains caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
5 minute read
Keys to Building an Intelligent MRO OrganizationApr 10, 2020 — In aviation industries, such as aerospace and defense (A&D), maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) organizations operate a very complicated framework to maintain their aerospace assets. In the SAP ecosystem, these assets involve many different business segments, and maintenance activities need to be planned for, executed, and documented — and in a timely manner — to ensure the airplanes are not only safe for flight but also available to transport the customers that rely on their on-time operation. MRO organizations must ensure parts are available when needed, repairs happen quickly, MRO workers are optimizing productivity, and all this is done at the lowest possible cost. Learn how intelligent technologies can help drive data through the value chain to the aerospace ecosystem stakeholders who are demanding more integrated products, more automation of repetitive tasks, and intelligence embedded into their business processes.
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How SAPinsider Delivers Key Insights to Address Business ChallengesApr 8, 2020 — “The brand speaks about a very trusted relationship between SAP and SAPinsider. I remember when I first heard SAPinsider I thought, who wouldn’t want to go to an SAPinsider [event]? And then I found out that there was a whole range of additional offerings to deliver and gain insight and share it among the SAP […]
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