APO and BW Reporting

I have a requirement to report from APO, I would request if someone can post documentation related to that.
I would also like to know how it is different from usual BW reporting.
Thanks for help in advance.

Hi BK
Basiclly you need to create the data flow required from the APO planning area data sources.
For realtime reporting on planning areas the best practise is to create remote cube on APO planning area datasources
Check this docs:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5f229690-0201-0010-84ba-9ee5a8958a05
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4fe5d590-0201-0010-6c8d-ada86492cf11
SCM 5.0
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/7e/63fc37004d0a1ee10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/8f/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
Thanks,
Raj

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Hi experts,
I have question Dangerous APO and Transaction codes
Background :
We are in the process of implementing SOX controls for the new APO and BI Systems
Questions :
What are the Dangerous APO Transaction codes which should not be assigned to any one in Production system
What are the Dangerous BI Transaction codes which should not be assigned to any one in Production system
Additional Notes
System which we are having
APO
Version : SCM 5.0
BI
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Praveen,
I am a puzzled that you would ask such a question.
Authorizations ALWAYS derive from requirements. In this case, Sarbanes-Oxley speaks of control mechanisms. Your SOX auditors should tell you what they consider to be critical, and they should advise the client company as to which transactions should be controlled, and how best to control them.
There is no transaction that should be disallowed to everyone. That would eventually make the system unusable. The question is, "how many people should have these critical transactions, and how should the execution of these transactions be monitored and controlled".
Generally, the APO portion of SCM should require less SOX controls than ERP, since APO is mostly a planning system, and not an execution system (there are some exceptions here though). Likewise, the BI portion of SCM usually contains no financial reports, and therefore should have relaxed controls over, say, the main BI instance used by your company.
Don't make the mistake of strangling yourself to satisfy your perception of what you think an auditor may require. Make them tell you the minimum requirements for compliance. Anything beyond minimum compliance with SOX is costly. This question is then a matter of your company's policies. I usually vote for 'no additional restrictions' (but my poor vote doesn't usually count for much).
Rgds,
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APO and BW on separate systems

Hi guys,
we are currently setting up a new landscape our company.
We'll have one APO (newest version, 7.0) with life-cache and one BW (7.0). I am just wondering, why we create two systems and not just one, because APO is based on the BW technology. I had already a look in the notes but didn't find any proposals.
Has someone an opinion or a link for me?
Thx in advance
Harald.

Hi Harald,
you are right, APO has a built-in BW system. basically, it is possible to do reporting (APO related) on the same box. However, there are serval reasons that some customers would prefer to have APO and reporting platform separated:
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2. Internal BW system is not recommended for other reporting (R/3, or legacy reporting) also for performance reason, because to load and report additional data means additional overhead for the system.
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APO and BW

Hi Group
We have BW 2.1 installed at the moment just for reporting purposes. We are in the process of migrating the reporting to another software. In 3 months we will fully complete the migration to the new reporting software. Thus we will not be using BW anymore.
At the same time, we are going to implement APO. I understand APO comes with BW also.
1) My question is, can we expire the existing BW and not use the BW that comes with APO?
2) I also hearing that APO needs BW engine? Is this true?
Our intention is to expire the BW completely and use the new reporting software. Also want to use APO for VMI.
Kindly advice.
Thanks
Yuva

Hi,
You get BW along with SAP SCM-APO system and cannot be separated. The SAP BW system is fully integrated in APO and can be installed on the same server. The version of BW depends on version of SCM. It can be used to store data but cannot be so performance effective for reporting. You may use the external BW system to report but not needed. You can use BW in APO system to use for all purposes such as storing history from other systems, get the data from APO and store etc. If you dont want an independent SAP BW system, you can still workout. You can store the required data in APO-BW and using reporting tools such as cognos and report on them. SAP BW has a technology named OPEN HUB that lets it send the data from cubes to other systems.
Finally:
1) My question is, can we expire the existing BW and not use the BW that comes with APO?
A: Yes you can expire your independent BW system but cannot live without APO_BW as BW in APO is not separately. You have to use BW atleast the one that comes with APO.
2) I also hearing that APO needs BW engine? Is this true?
A: Not completely true. As I said, if you don't want to report using BW, leave the independent BW system and use an external reporting tool to report in BW in APO.
In V5.0, there is more flexibility. You can load data to planning area from flat file directly bypassing BW. But if you want to avoid BW all together, you life could be miserable!
For more information see service.sap.com/scm.
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Differences between APO and R3 sysytem.

Hi everybody,
Can anyone list out the differences between the APO system and the R3 system.A detailed explanation will be helpful.

Hi,
APO
APO is the supply chain tool from SAP.
BW is the data layer for APO.
SAP APO is for Demand Planning and is a component of mySAP SCM. It enables dynamic supply chain management and which in turn includes applications for detailed planning, optimization and scheduling, allowing the supply chain to be accurately and globally monitored even beyond enterprise boundaries.
SAP BI is a reporting tool in SAP. It provides a complete view of the company. The solution is part of SAP NetWeaver and provides the tools needed to make the right decisions, optimize processes, and measure strategic success: data from all enterprise sources are merged effectively and can be comprehensively analyzed, business-critical factors can be monitored using external and internal benchmarks, the most important KPIs can be passed on to all the relevant forces in a company in real time, strategies can be rapidly adapted to changed market conditions, and the results of analyses can be graphically represented in a wide variety of formats, such as grids, graphs, and maps
Check this:
What is APO and how it is related to BW
SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer is a component of the mySAP Supply Chain Management solution that you use for planning and optimizing supply chain processes at a strategic, tactical, and operational planning level.
With APO - Simultaneous Material & Capacity Planning is possible, as against R/3 PP
APO Planning is capable of taking all the constraints into consideration with Planning for Capacities/Scheduling
APO Resource (workcenter in R/3) does a Capacity availability check before scheduling an activity, if capacity is not available, it finds the immediate next available slot & schedules the activity there. This is not possible with R/3
http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/scm/pdf/BWP_APO40.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/7e/63fc37004d0a1ee10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv133/documentation/BW/I18_Scen_InstallGuide_EN_DE.doc
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm41/helpdata/en/92/dd013872af2946e10000009b38f8cf/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/7e/63fc37004d0a1ee10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
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Current data
Short database transactions
Online update/insert/delete
Normalization is promoted
High volume transactions
Transaction recovery is necessary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP
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http://blogs.netindonesia.net/kiki/archive/2006/02/28/8822.aspx
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Hi All,
Can anyone share some points to optimize APO and liveCache, like best practices, system configurations to improve the performance of our system?
We would appreciate your response and inputs.
Regards,
Philip Lledo

Hi Philip,
There are definitely few things that you can check in your system -
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Also you may consider to reduce the horizon for your optimizer run, if applicable. May be you don’t need to run the optimizer for full planning horizon, if you are not really publishing for full horizon. Also consider to reduce your no of buckets in the planning horizon if possible, Like you don’t need to have all the daily bucket in the horizon, may be first month in daily bucket. You can determine planning horizon in the variant.
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By checking/doing all the above, you should get some pointers.
Thanks,
Satyajit
Message was edited by: Satyajit Patra

Difference between BW-APO and BW

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I would like to know what are the differences between BW-APO and Standard BW? I need to gather the Basic InfoObjects and Info Cubes for Demand Planning(DP)for Sales Data. Please advice what are the BC cubes can be used for DP for Sales Data?
When I execute transaction RSA1 in APO, I get all the features of BW like data modeling, Business content etc. Of course, DP will have many functionalities that won't be available in BW e.g. Planning Book etc.
Second part of the question is why should a customer implement separate BW and a separate APO system when BW features are available in APO? I appreciate your suggestions.
Thanks for your time

Hi dear,
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Moreover, it is possible to use BW within the APO for reporting, however it might have some effects on the performance...so, the priority of reporting in the discussed environment has to be clearly defined.
There are several reasons why a customer wants to keep BW and APO as one instance.
One might be the lower investment; another one the reduction of complexity and maintenance.
If this is really the case depends very much on the reporting requirements. Thus it has to be checked how many users would work with the APO-system as BW-users. Since APO is designed and tuned for planning functions it is likely that a parallel tuning for the BW demands will contradict with the earlier made settings.
Two different instances for APO and BW is the recommended approach by SAP.
BW serves as a Data Consolidation and Reporting tool whereas APO is dedicated to specific planning functions. Information necessary for planning can be retrieved from BW using the DATAMART-Interface.
Hope it helps !
Bye,
Roberto

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I am running 6i and 10g reports against a 10g database.
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We have set up Free Goods in SAP R/3. These free goods are granted based upon a series of access sequences in pricing.
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what is difference between interactive list and interactive reports?

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