APO Schedling questions

Hello All,
Can any version of APO support the following scheduling requirements?
1. Create and change a production schedule for both Product Family and Individual products
2. Create and lock the production schedule at the product family level and move around the individual product schedules
All your help is appreciated.
Thanks,

I have not come across any APO Scheduling functionality at Product Family level.
However you may like to consider Block Planning functionality. You can define a Block for each Product Family and within a block have the orders for different products belonging to the same Product Family (use Product Family as characteristic). Within a Block you can schedule individual orders.
Somnath

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Answer for the Interview Questions

Hello Experts,
Below is the list of questions from DP and SNP which I took it from APO Interview Questions thread. Please provide us the answers for the questions. It will be really helpful for the beginners like me. If every one in the forum contributes then it will be very great.
Thanks for your reply.
Best Regards,
Raj.
Where do you define Info-objects?
Info-objects comprise of?
What is Administrator Workbench is used to create and manage?
What are the different types of data in liveCache?
what is the difference between Storage Bucket Profile and Planning Bucket Profile?
How can you setup two grids in the Planning Book / Data View?
What can be sources of data in the timeseries keyfigure?
What is the use of ex-post forecast in Univariate Statistical Forecasting?
What are the types of Keyfigure aggregation in terms of characteristics/Calc Type?
What are the types of Keyfigure aggregation in terms of time?
Where do you maintain keyfigure aggregation?
What are aggregates?
What is the difference between planning characteristic and navigational attribute?
What are selection profiles used for?
What are the different ways of creating CVCs?
How many levels does a macro have?
What are the different types of standard macros?
When is the exit and default macro executed?
What is process chain and how is it used in Demand Planning?
what is an Infospoke? Where do you find the configuration in BW Admin Workbench?
what is the basis of creation of planning books and data views considering background job performance?
Where do you set the level at which a DP background job activity has to execute?
How can you setup custom alert types for DP and SNP?
what is the difference between Dynamic and Database alerts?
Where are database alerts stored (table name)?
What is realignment and explain the process?
What is cannibalization group?
What are the different forecast error measures and which is most preferred?
What are the different types of keyfigures you can use in a Planning Book?
What is planning version and planning area initialisation?
What is the master data in APO Demand Planning?
what is meant by Release of Demand Plan to SNP?
How do you create proportional factors? What is the standard keyfigure for Proportional Factor?
1. What is the difference between order series and time series data. How does different types of transaction data get mapped to Interactive Planning keyfigures?
2. What are the different methods of doing Supply Network Planning namely Heuristic, Optimiser, Multi-Level Demand Supply Match (CTM)?
3. What are aggregates and how are they used in SNP.
4. What is SNP Stock Transfer Horizon? What is the relation with Planning Time Fence?
5. What is SNP Horizon? What is the relation with PPDS Horizon?
6. What is the key difference in planning with SNP vs PPDS?
7. What is the master data required for planning in SNP?
8. How are SNP Plans different from PPDs Plans.
9. How can capacity constraints considered in SNP.
10. What are Quota Arrangements and how are they used?
11. How do you get forecast in SNP? What is forecast consumption?
12. How does the different transaction data aggregate and show up in different keyfigures in Interactive SNP?
13. What are the different types of SNP Heuristics possible?
14. What are the different Safety Stock calculation methods that can be sued in SNP?
15. What is Netting and Forecast Consumption? Explain Backward and Forward Consumption?
16. Are requirements and receipts in SNP pegged? How is it different from PPDS?
17. What is the relationship between SNP Horizon and PPDS Horizon?
18. Briefly describe the different ways of managing safety stock in SNP
19. What is the difference between a model and a version
20. In what scenario Capable-to-Match is applicable.
21. Briefly explain how SNP optimiser can be setup and used.

Dear Raj,
you can go through the following questions and answers which will help you.
How can a planning version be frozen and unfrozen?
A Planning Version can be frozen and unfrozen using Function Module /SAPAPO/TS_PAREA_VERSIO_FREEZE so that no further changes to the planning version can be done.
What is Release Profile?
Release Profile is used to release timeseries data from DP to SNP/PPDS. You need to define the DP Planning Area and timeseries keyfigure the data in which is released and the SNP Category Type (typically FA) to which data is released. You may maintain a Daily Buckets Profile it will define the number of working days (working days determined based on Shipping Calendar maintained for the location master) starting on and from the From Date if released online/ interactively or that many workdays of the planning horizon when release is carried out in background. The Period Split (blank, 1 and 2) field in the SNP2 tab of location-product master determines how demand plan is released to SNP from DP (how bucketed data is disaggregated to the workdays).
What is the usage of Period Factor?
Period Factor maintained in the SNP PPM or Transportation Lane determines the Availability Date of a Receipt element within a time bucket (period). The system determines the exact availability date/time of the receipt elements within a period, by adding a time interval (that it gets by multiplying the period factor with the period length) to the start time of the period. You can enter a factor between 0 and 1, where 0 is the start of the period, 0.5 the middle, and 1 the end of the period. When calculating the availability date/time, the system takes into consideration all weekdays, meaning that it does not take into consideration any days that have been defined as non-workdays in the calendars.
Period Factor used is .71 = 7x0.71 = 4.97 or 5 days from ptimizer of weekly bucket resulting in a Friday.
If Period Factor is not maintained in PPM or Transportation Lane then the User Period Factor indicator and the Period Factor value maintained in the Lot Size tab of the location-product combination is used. If this is not maintained a default value of 0.5 is used.
What determines stock categories displayed in Stock on Hand keyfigure?
The categories defined in Category Group ST1 (can be maintained in table /SAPAPO/APOCGC) determine the stock categories that are displayed in the Initial bucket in the Stock on Hand keyfigure. Subsequent buckets are dynamically computed.
Does dynamic alerts show up in Alert Monitor?
Dynamic Alerts do not show up in the stand-alone alert monitor. Network alerts are to show pegging relationships.
What is the report to execute MASSD?
The report for executing MassD in background job is MASSBACK.
What is the shortcut to change location type in APO?
Report /SAPAPO/CHECK_LOCATION_TYPE can be used to change location type (say from 1001 to 1002 or vice-versa) of existing locations in APO. The table to refer is /SAPAPO/LOCMAP. SAP does not recommend this process.
How can a transaction be executed even when no authorization?
SE93 - Transaction code for Transaction Code E.g. CRC1 Create Resource has txn code CRAH. So if you do not have authorization to create resource you can use SE93 and enter txn CRAH and then Test F8 button to go to the txn.
How to copy a Process Chain?
To copy a process chain to another process chain, goto the Process Chain you want to copy and then type copy in the tool tar and hit enter. It will allow you to copy the Process Chain to another Process Chain that can be modified as per user's requirement, saved, activated and used.
What is the process to copy planning versions in R/3?
Use OLIX to first delete previous MRP planning versions. Then use MCB& to create the new MRP planning versions by choosing the appropriate version you want to create as ICO Version. The info structure in this case is S094.
How to use create planning book with two tables?
To use two tables on one screen of Planning Book/Data View - select indicator next to second page title and give name. Additional tab page is displayed in Planning Book Maintenance wizard to define the keyfigures for the second table.
What is Master Data in DP?
Master Data in Demand Planning primarily is Charcateristic Value Combinations commonly termed CVCs. CVCs are the planning combinations against which data is stored in keyfigures.
What is the behaviour of Procurement Type X?
Procurement Type X - source selection is based on matching due date then priority then cost. If both In-house Production and External Procuremnet is possible then In-house Production (PPM) is chosen as source of supply.
What is PPDS Fixing Horizon?
PP/DS fixing Horizon defines the PP/DS time Fence - within that period if heuristic is run no orders get changed.
What is the reuse mode in Product Heuristic?
Reuse mode in Product Heuristic - makes the system to reuse orders already present in the heuristic run i.e. orders are not deleted and recreated.
What is Planning Procedure?
Planning Procedure in Product Master (PP/DS) defines that when you convert a planned order to process order it is in Deallocated state and not Scheduled state and more.
Award me if helpful
Regards
Srikanth

Integration connections to bring master data into APO and BW system.

Hi All,
Can somebody give step by stip activities to be done FOR creating integration connection for following requriment.
1) To bring master data from R3 System to APO system through BI CUBES using BI type connection
2) APO/R3 type connection R3 system to APO system.
Regards

Nikhil,
Request you to let me know how can basis person helps in this.
If this is an existing system, the applications team (APO and BW) will not require much assistance from you. You can mostly sit back and watch them do all the work.
I suggest that you read the help link in its entirety provided by expert Datta. Much of the info there is helpful for both solutions.
For the APO interface (question 2 in your original post) there is a complete step-by-step guide provided by SAP. Check these two docs out.
http://help.sap.com/bp_scmv250/BBLibrary/Documentation/B02_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_DE.doc
http://help.sap.com/bp_scmv250/BBLibrary/Documentation/B05_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_DE.doc
If you are being asked to select from one of the two scenarios you outlined, the standard Core interface is by far the simpler to implement. Plus, it has the advantage that SAP will support you when something goes wrong.
The BW solution is different, in that the developer (you?) MUST have detailed specifications before he can proceed. Which master data? At what organizational levels? How often refreshed? What will be the ultimate use of the data, and how must it be stored? Where will it be stored? How to deal with inconsistencies? Etc etc. SAP support will only solve technical problems in your solution, they won't solve errors of design or logic, unless you happen to get a very accommodating support person when you raise your message.
But in case a basis person need to create RFC how can it be done for above scenario.
The instructions for creating all the RFC stuff is contained in the connectivity doc I cited above.
Best Regards,
DB49

APO: How to execute BAPI_RSSRVAPS_CHANGEMULTI ?

Hi,
I need to update the bucket capacities of Resource at Vendor location in APO live cache using BAPI_RSSRVAPS_CHANGEMULTI.
Here I am executing BAPI by passing -
Import Parameters:
LOGICAL_SYSTEM
COMMIT_CONTROL
PLANNING_VERSION
Tables:
RESOURCE_HEAD
(RESOURCE = Material Number
LOCATION = Vendor Number
NOINDIVRES = Capacity Quantity)
RESOURCE_HEAD_X
     (RESOURCE = Material Number
      LOCATION = X
      NOINDIVRES = X)
Getting RETURN with 3 Messages (1st is an Error):
1. No valid resource could be found
2. Rollback executed (see long text)
3. Application log (ext. no. 051MI3{V7J2DS{GL43QUL0) for obj. APO_BAPI and sub-obj. RES_APS has been logged
It is saying that the RESOURCE (Material) is not valid. But the Material that I am giving an existing one in system. I could not understand the exact problem. Even helpless in this regard. Any one who knows the process to execute this BAPI, please help me.
Thanks
Roy

Hello Roy,
APO related questions you will have to post on SCM APO Master Data and General forum. Please check link below:
SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO)
Post your question in the above forum and you will get appropriate responses quickly.
Hope that helps!
Regards,
Saba

Questions about APO training (Please reply urgently).

Hey guys,
I am starting my training in APO with a training institute ,which will train me for about 50 hrs on APO, and grant me 3 months of access to the SAP system.
I had the following questions.
1. What are the prior requirements if you have to take certification exam for APO? Are there any prerequisites, or any sort of other requirements?
2. I wanted to know if 3 months access would be enough for me to prepare for certification?If not then how much access is enough?
3. How long can I not give the exam again, if I fail once?
Thanks a lot guys,
Take care.

Please refer to the WIKI page of (Supply Chain Management) SCM in the APO section in the same SDN site; you have FAQs and good training material in that WIKI page. Please refer to this, hope this may help you.

Please help me in APO following APO questions or functions.

Hi gurus,
I am BW consultant and i didnt work much on APO planning book areas side.. But i need to respond to my users on these explanations to solve the tickets and also we have limites resource team. They wanted to know what is Univariate Forecast (Ctrl+f8) is for.. his question is the second button from right looks like "z" like(Univariate Forecast) , he wants to know what is this for and can we lock it out... It actually comes in end user training, but i wanted to give some info and close this ticket, please help in this.
2) What is the use of these "selected objects" area, Can it Go awa? When u select from the "selected objects" area, the reset button doesnt work and you must exit the spread sheet and reenter the data..
Please help in the above 2.. as i didnt work much on APO i couldnt deliver..thanks in advance

Karan, I empathize your position. You must ask your resource managers to correctly staff the project with right skills or ask for training. It is incorrect of your resource manager to expect you to solve tickets in an unknown area. Protest!
Coming to your Q
1. The icon is for doing forecasting based on historical sales or shipments as the case may be. there are authorization objects to block the icon for certain users (for that refer to Security team - refer link http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm41/helpdata/en/de/6733c99b274f2db1f5706295c42e7e/content.htm). the other way is to go into the design button in the planning book and uncheck univariate forecasting.(under "Navigate to Views" section of first tab)
2. I do not quite follow what you mean by selector area. Refer to help.sap.com
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm2007/helpdata/en/95/a86039c9a5ae3be10000000a11402f/content.htm
and
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm2007/helpdata/en/73/3e116a347111d398290000e8a49608/content.htm
for further clues

APO VMI Consignment- functional questions

Hi Gurus,
Has anyone implemented APO VMI with Consignment Option. I am wondering if any one of you out there with proper experience can answer the following questions.
1. We have our own disctribution centers where we maintain consignment stock for customers. How do you grab the consigment stock issue quantity information for KE order into APO VMI planning book?
2. We have 'make to order' scenario, how do we grab the sales order stock information into APO VMI planning book?
For the above questions, are there any configuration settings that can be used without involving custom development?
Thanks,
Srini

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RE : BI APO Question Reg Data feeding from cube to Planning area.

Hi BW Experts,
iam working in an Implementation project for SCM in BW prcisely working with APO Bw..
For that I have taken historical data as a flat file and loaded it in to the external BW Infocube and its fine...
Second step I have created generate export datasource on topr of BW infocube and replicated in to Bw and used this export datasource as datasource for APO BW Infocube which is inbulit BW System from External Bw..
also I have created tranformations and data is loaded in the BW cube in APO system.Also Included Version charecterstics..
When I try to fed the APO Cube data to planning area Iam gettinga the following warning itsnot an error:
1.Key figure copy: InfoCube - planning area (DP) 01.01.2010 to 31.12.2010-- Successful
*2.No data exists for the selection made (see long text*
Diagnosis:Data could not be loaded from the Cube for the selection you made. Check whether the Cube actually contains data that is relevant for your selection.
For the second point I have time charecterstics filled in the infocube which Iam feding to a Planning area like 0CALMONTH,0CALWEEK,FiscVarnt,0CALMONTH
3.Characteristic assignment: No data copied --- Message
Can you please help me with your thoughts so that i wll try to corner the issue I will be highly obliged

Hi,
As I understood, you have loaded data from external BW cube to APO BW cube and now loading planning area from APO BW cube.
I hope your settings in /SAPAPO/TSCUBE transaction code would be correct and you have selected the correct planning version with correct cube.
Check if Data in APO BW cube is available for reporting or not and data is avilable for given selction (if any but I guess you are not giving any).
Thanks,
S

APO DP - table /SAPAPO/FCST_LC1 question

I am using APO DP V5.
I am using lifecycle planning in APO DP.
Table /SAPAPO/FCST_LC1 contains assignments for lifecycle planning.
But what is meaning /use of field 'MERKMAL GUID' in this table?
Thanks,
Bob Austin.

Dear Bob Austin,
SAP uses GUIDs while storing the data in the database. Hence, it will generate a guid while inserting the data and will use this for future reference instead of the actual object.
For example, if you look at the table /SAPAPO/MATKEY there will be two fields MANTR and MATID (GUID of Product). SAP uses this MATID instead of MANTR for storing PO, demand data etc.
Regards,
Naveen.

MM and APO question

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Could you please explain something to me?
An order has been created automatically by the system from a requisition that was automatically generated in APO. What I don't understand is why the PO has been created so early as the master data is set up so that the PO is created 5 days before the due date. There are even requisitions early than the PO that has been created today.
any idea?
thanks in advance!

Purchase order is created by APO or MM?
APO can also created the PO directly.

How to activate the ATP buckets in APO?

Hi,
We are in the process of changing the ATP buckets in our APO system.
I know the Path in the configuration:
Advanced Planning and Optimization -> Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) -> General Settings -> Maintain Global Settings for Availability Check
On the left side you will get three sections:
Global Settings
ATP Buckets (Active)
ATP Buckets (Planned)
I can change the values in (example field Shift Receipt Bucket) the ATP Buckets (Planned) section and save it with a transport. Now the question is how to activate the buckets. Is there another transaction for this? SAP Help doesn't specify how to activate.
Any ideas are highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mahesh

Hi,
To activate the buckets one need to check the box 'Current' in the options under ATP Buckets (Active). Also, as referred earlier by Dipthi do look up the documentation under:
SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) -> Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) -> Settings for Global ATP -> General Settings for Global ATP ->Definition of Buckets for ATP Time Series ->Activation of Bucket Parameters for ATP Time Series.
The details are as beneath:
Use
If you change bucket parameters (see Definition of Buckets for ATP Time Series), these must be activated subsequently for the ATP time series.
Features
The system activates the bucket parameters in the following situations:
Since activation in each of the situations described below leads to downtime, you should change bucket parameters less frequently than other Customizing settings.
·        Creating the active planning version for a client using transaction /SAPAPO/MVM
If you set up a system again, you should process the bucket parameters before you create the active planning version. The bucket parameters are thus activated automatically.
·        Initializing SAP liveCache for all clients using transaction LC10
In the case of an upgrade, you should process the bucket parameters before activating SAP liveCache. The bucket parameters are then activated automatically.
·        Executing the report /SAPAPO/OM_ATP_REBUILD_TS
The system only rebuilds the ATP time series here.
In this case, the SAP liveCache administrator must execute the following steps:
                            a.      Shut down SAP liveCache.
                            b.      Replace the com-file registration:
                                                  i.       At command line level, go to the SAP subdirectory of the SAP liveCache installation.
                                                ii.       Under Microsoft Windows, save the original registration files SAPAPO.lst and SAPATP.lst (UNIX: libSAPAPO.lst and libSAPATP.lst), for example, by renaming or copying to another directory.
                                               iii.       Under Microsoft Windows, rename the registration file SAPAPO_REBUILD.lst as SAPAPO.lst (UNIX: libSAPAPO_REBUILD.lstas libSAPAPO.lst) or copy it to another directory.
                                               iv.       Under Microsoft Windows, rename the registration file SAPATP_REBUILD.lst as SAPATP.lst (UNIX: libSAPATP_REBUILD.lstas libSAPATP.lst) or copy it to another directory.
                            c.      Launch SAP liveCache.
                            d.      Execute the report /SAPAPO/OM_ATP_REBUILD_TS.
                            e.      Shut down SAP liveCache.
                              f.      Replace the com-file registration by replacing the registration files SAPAPO.lst and SAPATP.lst (UNIX: libSAPAPO.lst and libSAPATP.lst) with the original versions under Microsoft Windows.
                            g.      Launch SAP liveCache.
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Vinod

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I'm trying to extract data from APO PP/DS (SCM 5.1) to BW (BI 7.0). I'm new to SCM and am not sure how the extraction from SCM to BI happens other than that we need to read data from LiveCache.
The extractor we are interested are
0APO_PPDS_RESCAPREQ_01
0APO_PPDS_PROD_CUST_01
0APO_PPDS_OPERATION_01
0APO_PPDS_ORDER_01
Pls kindly help me out with the procedure.
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Have a look at the below urls..
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
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Loading sales orders to APO

Hi,
What are the ways of loading sales order data into SNP planning book?
To my knowledge, it is:
1. R/3 to BW cube to APO( using TSOPY)
2. Active integration model and assign the category BM to sales orders keyfigure in SNP planning area. so that all sales orders in Live cache loaded through integration model show up in the planning book.
Here is my issue. I checked the planning area and I see no category assigned to it. When I right click on the cell and select show details, it is showing me deliveries assigned with it. Also the sales order data is loaded only for 3 days from current date. Which gives me a suspicion that this is loaded from BW as the dates are controlled.
Here are my questions.
1. As deliveries are showing up in details, does it mean that the sales order data is being loaded through live cache??
2. Why do deliveries show up when this is sales order data? I see deliveries in RRP3 for that product and location.
3. Can we control the number of days to which the sales order data is loaded when loading from Live cache using option 2 as above?
4. Do details such as deliveries show up when the data is loaded from BW cube to APO?
Thanks.

you SNP KF is assigned to a Category group that consists of categories for SO and Deliveries
order series data doesnt have to do with BW data load. Unless you are releasing into SOs from time series
so i guess you are getting your SOs and deliveries from ECC
if you go to IMG and locate the category group and can take out the order type for deliveries from the category group (you can locate this in details for the planning area of SNP) then you will not see them
its better not to limit the orders that are created in ECC comign to APO based on dates. This will cause inconsistencies. If you want to limit deliveries you should be able to restrict them using the integration model

Business Process: Final Demand Plan Key Figure in the past for APO DP

Hello APO process experts,
I have a BPX question for APO DP process owners, consultants or gurus:
1.- Have you ever seen in any SAP APO customer, that in their APO DP planning books, they chose or designed to update the Final Demand Plan key Figure in the past closed historical buckets with the Actual Sales?
Meaning that that in the Past closed historical Buckets, Actual Sales and Final Demand Plan, look exactily the same.
Meaning that they create a dynamic Final Demand Plan key figure so to speak, yet they did not choose to create a key figure that also keeps the Final Demand Plan as originally entered.
2.- Would you think that doing the above, without keeping any keyfigure in the planning book that actually shows what the Final Demand Plan was in the Past, is a good practice?
The Demand Planner could still retreive the Final Demand Plan from BI reports, yet, dynamically they could never really see it in the planning book.
3.- Do you think the above dynamic key figure would bias the Demand Planner's behaviour to manipulate the future open Final Demand Plan buckets to enter volumes in order sum to a monthly total, independently of what were the over and underachievements in the past (since they are not really visible to him) ?
I would really like your feedback,
thanks in advance!
JD Loera

Hello Thanks for your feedback.
I agree with your point, and I hope that i still get more feedback from other Business Process Experts.
I am trying to build a case for my client, to challenge the decision of their initial design as this practice is going to hurt the Demand Management process, if what they intend to achieve is a true "unconstrained demand plan"
Much appreciated
JD Loera

Orders which are PGIed in APO system

Hi APO experts,
Could you please tell me which table provides me the information of the orders which are PGIed in APO?
I know that there is a table called /SAPAPO/OBREF which gives you the delivered quantity as soon as you create a delivery.
But, I wanted to find out for that entry delivery has been PGIed or not within APO system.
I dont want to go to ECC to pick up the data as it will be performance overheard.
Appreciate your reply on this.
Thanks,
Babu Kilari

Hi Tibor,
Could you please let me know which field are you talking about in that table. Because, I have checked that table and I dont see any table which gives me information whether it has been PGIed or not?
Hope you understand my question.
Thanks,
Babu Kilari

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