APO Demand Planning realignment and BI

Hi experts,
I need to handle realignment process done in APO Demand Planning area in order to get data consistency in BW.
All I can tell you is that my idea was to get data from datasources created on Planning areas but I don't know how that realignment process impacts on information taken to BI.
As Demand Planning information changes from week to week(as guys in APO side do their forecast) we need to take snapshots to BI. My concern is how to manage realignment in this scenario. should we take a different approach to upload data to BI?.
Thanks so much!.

Hi rajib,
If you are new to APO & want understand Demand Planning steps then you can use SAP Help.
Pls go through following link. You can find all the steps.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/8f/9d6937089c2556e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
Regards
Sujay

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How to configure for the give senario where we from APO demand planning, we provide baseline forecast into TPM

Hello Guru's,
Request for information on smart documentation on the integration between Trade Promotion Management and SCM-Demand Planning from an architecture perspective how to configure for the give senario where we from APO demand planning, we provide baseline forecast into TPM and from TPM promotions values can be considered in to APO demand planning: can anybody give me some insight on it.
Thanks in advance.
Kumar

Hi Praveen
There are several ways you can connect a DP system to a TPM. How are your interfaces and systems setup?
Option1:
Extract the baseline from APO to a BW cube, extract the data out of BW, may be using infospokes/open hub and pass it on to TPM.
2. Have a custom program written in APO-DP to extract the selected keyfigure data at the aggregation level into an interface or a .txt file into APO directory and use some data transfer service such as EDI to take this data and send to TPM.
In my experience it is simple to define an integration process. The much larger and complicated aspects are the date adjustments and the aggregation levels.
Date adjustments:
Understand the basis of the data in APO and TPM. APO is usually at the requested delivery date or material availability date ( when the customer like a store wants the product). However TPMs are usually at the consumption date ( when an end customer like you and me but from store shelf). Depending on the product and business style this can mean several days difference. Let's say it is 25 days on average, you need to add 25 days to APO base line date to get the TPM consumption date.
Aggregation level:
This can be product or customer. If the planning in DP is at product sku level and the TPM is at packs or brand level, you need to aggregate the data up before loading to TPM. The same with customer.
To me the most complex part of the integration is to understand and transform the data in a meaningful way and a strategy to sustain this integration by keeping both DP and TPM in sync in terms of master data. Also important to have a process for identifying exceptions and failures. you send baseline from DP to TPM and if it fails, how do you know? how do you trouble shoot?
Hope these help.

What are the disadvantages of implementing APO- Demand Planning without improvements or cleaning up the MRP. in other words is DP implementation dependant on MRP process. Gurus please advise

HI All. What are the disadvantages of implementing APO- Demand Planning without improvements or cleaning up the MRP. in other words is DP implementation dependant on MRP process. Gurus please advise

Hi Amol,
DP is the demand planning machine, here you estimate your forecast (future sales).
The MRP is a supply planning machine, here you use estimate the replenishment.
Both machines in a technical perspective are independent one each other. Now in a business perspective they are not: The problem that you will have if you don´t clean your MRP elements is not a problem in DP itself. I mean, you can have a very success implementation in DP, your forecast accuracy will be very good.. and you will get a very good forecast, but when the MRP run and estimate the replenishment, the effort that you made in DP will not be translated in good results and your planning situation will be still not good.
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Looking for a book on APO - Demand Planning Configuration

Could anyone please recommend a book I could purchase that specifically teaches APO Demand Planning Configuration? Any book or manuals that you could point me to would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The book SAP SCM by Daniel C Wood is reasonable. Not all the detail, but touches on DP, SNP and PPDS and if you use this in conjunction with the online help for the latest release.
SCM 7.0 help
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/12/3dfd81126e1c448c870f335f11d016/frameset.htm
Also another tip - search in google advanced for any topic within Website
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70*
(asterix)
and then when you get the detail.
eg
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which ends with the word
CONTENT
change the word content to FRAMESET
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and you get the sorrounding help for this specific topic.

Why we are using APO - Demand Planning ?

Dear All,
Why we are using APO-Demand Planning,as we have this option in R/3 ?
What is advantages of APO - DP over & above R/3?
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Sujay Joshi
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Hi Sujay,
Have a look at the below thread.
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Siva.

What is best practice to do APO Demand planning

Hi,
My client wants to implement demand planning.
Client has come up with one scenario like a New Customer is created in ECC, and if I use BI and then APO flow ( ECC -> BI -> APO-BI) for Demand planning, user will have to wait for another day. (AS BI is always having one day delay).
For this scenarios user is insisting on ECC and APO-DP interface.
Will anybody suggest what should be the best practice for Demand planning.
ECC -> Standalone BI -> Planning area (Planning is done in APO) -> Stand alone BI
Or ECC -> APO-DP (Planning is done in APO) -> Standalone BI system
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ST

Hi Sujoy,
Thanks for reply.
(1) I have to get Sales Order data from ECC into BI standalone system Cube.
(2) Then from this cube same data is sent to SCM APO - BI Cube.
(3) Planning will be done in SCM APO.
(4) Planned data is again sent to BI standalone system, Using datamart on Planned area.
(5) In BI we will have reporting on cube, which has ECC sales order data and APO Planned data.
But in this case, there is always delay between data loads (firstly ECC -> BI, then BI -> APO, then APO -> BI).
In this case, if a new customer is created, Client wants to see demand planning in latest data.
How do we do APO DP generally?
Do we follow the route from BI, or directly between ECC and APO..
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What is the best practice for APO - Demand planning implementation

Hi,
M client wants to implement demand planning.
Cient has come up with one scenario like a New Customer is created in ECC, and if I use BI and then APO flow for Demand planning, user will have to wait for another day. (AS BI is always having one day delay).
For this scenarios user is insisting on ECC and APO-DP interface.
Will anybody suggest what should be the best practice for Demand planning.
ECC -> Standalone BI -> Planning area (Planning is done in APO) -> Stand alone BI
Or ECC -> APO-DP (Planning is done in APO) -> Standalone BI system
I hope I am able to explain my scenario.
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Release of APO Demand Planning to R/3 Demand Management

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Rumi,

Hi,
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APO - Demand Planning: Tracing Analysis Authorizations

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I was wondering if there is a way to trace analysis authorizations for demand planning?
I have an APO concept that uses analysis authorizations. A user gets blocked in transaction /SAPAPO/SDP94
If I run ST01, the missing value is in S_RS_AUTH, meaning Analysis Authorizations are missing.
However,
I can't seem to find a way to trace transaction /SAPAPO/SDP94 as another user with RSECADMIN.
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Hello Mariano,
ST01 and SU53 tells me it's Analysis Authorizations that are missing.
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Hence I know it's related to Analysis Authorizations and I would like to know HOW to trace WHAT analysis authorizations are missing.
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Tom

Updating data in APO demand planning key figure

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APO Demand Planning in Weekly bucket with customized definition

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Migration from Legacy to APO Demand Planning

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Currently Client uses legacy system for Forecasting. The forecasted value from legacy system will be given as input to APO DP for further Planning. Now, Client wants to do Forecasting and Planning in APO DP. That said they want to use the APO DP Forecasting functionality. How it can be handled in terms of.....
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The sales person can upload the sales information in excel file which can be easily upload into APO DP planning book. This sales history can be used as reference for forecasting
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http://help.sap.com/bp_scmv250/index.htm
There are different FCST tech avaiavble in APO DP. Forecast planners can assign different FCST tech based on sales history. Please find below the more information regarding it.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/EN/73/3e1164347111d398290000e8a49608/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/19/98ad1765354d7ba54b1eb164c377e0/frameset.htm
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APO Demand plan monthly data is not assigned correctly after replication to HANA

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