SAP Planning & Consolidations


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  1. Create Consignment Fill-Up Sales Orders Using SAP APO SNP

    Reading time: 28 mins

    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...…

  2. SAP EPM Big Data Use Cases

    Reading time: 37 mins

    This article explores the concept of using Enterprise Performance Management—EPM—to drive big data use cases, primarily focused on integrated strategic, financial, and operational reporting, and analytic capabilities. These big data use cases demonstrate both the business and technical value necessary to justify investments in big data platforms such as SAP HANA. Key Concept Enterprise Performance...…

  3. SAP NetWeaver Portal: Initiate and Track the Planning Process with Collaboration Rooms

    Reading time: 15 mins

    The Business Unit Analyst role shipped in mySAP ERP 2005 replaces the spreadsheets and distribution lists that used to organize the process of gathering and monitoring the submission of budget data with a collaboration room. Learn how it is designed specifically to select the managers who need to plan, send out workflow tasks to these...…

  4. Driving Financial Consolidations with SAP Analytics Cloud

    Reading time: 2 mins

    The article emphasizes the importance of modern financial consolidation methods and highlights A. Stucki Company’s successful transition from error-prone manual processes using Microsoft Excel to the more efficient and reliable SAP Analytics Cloud, thereby improving data integrity, accessibility, and overall financial health.

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

    Reading time: 25 mins

    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...…

  6. Supply Network Planning

    Reading time: 18 mins

    SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) offers the technology required to streamline complicated planning processes. The system supports hierarchical data structures, giving planners the possibility of focusing on information that has been consolidated into families rather than juggling lots data for individual SKUs, plant, warehouses, etc. Key Concept Hierarchies consolidate master data objects into groups....…

  7. Advanced Demand Planning with S&OP and SAP HANA

    Reading time: 20 mins

    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,...…

  8. How to Design and Develop Flexible Month-End Financial Allocation Solutions

    Reading time: 21 mins

    Find out about best practices and performance improvement tips for designing and developing month-end financial allocations using a combination of Business Planning and Simulation, Integrated Planning, ABAP function modules, and SAP NetWeaver BW. Key Concept The allocation process is performed in two steps, high level and low level. During the high-level allocation, finance data at...…

  9. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft: How They Differ

    Reading time: 21 mins

    Compare the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for Microsoft and the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver environments, and examine the strategies associated with this technology. Review the concept of the platform as the main issue behind a company’s reason for implementing one of these versions because of data integration issues,...…

  10. Tips and Tricks for Data Conversion in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Automating data loads from SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform is not a trivial task. Creating new SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation InfoObjects in SAP NetWeaver BW while keeping the original standard objects allows you to create an audit trail of all the transformations...…