APO- Supply Planning

Hi,
I am new to APO. I need to learn what is Production Data Structures ( PDS ), CIF ( Core Interface ), Master Data, Inbound Processing etc in Supply planning of SAPAPO.
Please help me out on this....
Thanks in Advance,
John Vikram V.

Have you checked the SCM - APO Wiki (see third sticky thread on this forum).
Did you search for your topics on the forum.
PDS is a kind of master data (combination of Bill-of-Material and routing) used for Inhouse Production (Manufacturing Orders) related orders.
CIF is the standard SAP provided interface to exchange master and transaction data between APO and R/3 or ECC system.
I am not sure what you meant by Inbound Processing - its too generic a term.
Somnath

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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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Regards,
Manimaran M.

Hi Manimaran,
Saving in Simulation means in DS board when you click on save it provides you option to save sim version or adopt to active version. If you copy to inactive version you cannot copy back trasaction data specially PPDs orders back to active version again while if you save in simulation you can adope it to active version at any point of time. YOu can adopt simulation version changes to active version using T-code /SAPAPO/CDPSS0
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Quota arrangement for the planned order materials generated from APO and when
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Quota arrangement for the planned order materials generated from APO and when
it is at the inbound side of R/3 while in CIF i.e.
u2022 Once the Planned order is created in APO and when it is at the inbound side of R/3 while in CIF u2013 the system will first check in the table(EQUK) against the material and plant whether there is any valid u201CQuota arrangement numberu201D(EQUK-QUNUM) .
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u2022 Finally the Planned order of the material needs to be converted into more than one Planned orders as per the production versions and in the ratio as mentioned in the quota arrangement.
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Does this still occur if APO generates the order materials and CIFs it to R/3?
*I mean I had a requirement where APO generated planned orders to be split automatically and the correct PVs(Production version EQUP-VERID) to be assigned if quotas(EQUP-QUOTE) exist in R/3 side??*
please help me asap this will b really appreciated and high points will be given....

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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
I hope I am able to explain my scenario.
Regards,
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.
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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.
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Option1:
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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.
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The standard help documentation suggests this is 'to improve performance'.
Can anyone give practical guidance about how to assign Dimensions to improve performance?
Thanks,
Bob Austin

the characterisitcs are grouped logically using the Dimensions
the use of dimensions allows data to be stored in a combination of dimension tables and fact tables
the dimention table consists of the dimension number, a primary key characteristics you assign to the dimension
the primary keys from various dimension tables link up at the fact table and to the values stored in it
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dimension tables could grow as your characteristic values increase so SAP advices you keep an eye on it (i am not sure of how functionally you can help this but i believe basis will be able to help you with allocating space on an oversized table)
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How to Check Error Log for Supply Planning Run

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I am getting error in supply planning run. I see the status under Excel Add-in >Supply Planning > Status. However there is no detailed error message here
How can I check the detailed log of this error to understand what is going wrong.
Can anybody guide on what can be probable causes of the error
Any help is highly appreciated
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Vijay

Hello Vijay, Wade
Can you run the Supply Planning in Simulation mode? Under the simulation drop-down you can also see 'Show Message'.
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Thanks
Pramod

Validity of exchange rates are not considered in APO DP planning books

Dear SAP Gurus
There are couple of posts on this topic without any conclusive reply and so I am posting this again.
We plan and manage data in multiple currencies and wish to maintain the same in APO DP. We have defined an exchange rate type in the planning area which is used for planning purposes. Please note that we have defined only one planning area for all global products hence data is stored in one currency only.Exchange rates between different currencies for this exchange rate type are maintained in ECC and then transferred to APO via RSA1 using standard functionality. While exchange rates are maintained with validity (valid from date) in this table, APO DP planning books only consider latest exchange rates. This behaviour changes the data in the planning book every time there is a change in the exchange rates and is a complete nonsense.
I believe there is a macro function CURR_CONV_FACTOR() which can be used to bring exchange rates as key figures in the planning book based on validity but given that this macro works only between 2 exchange rates and we use 10 different currencies, its not feasible to use this macro function for all combinations.
Is there any other way to have exchange rates based on validity ? Does SAP has any guidelines / best practice on how to handle multiple currency scenarios in DP.
We are on APO V5.1.
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Zorba

Dear Nitish
Thanks for the message.
Unfortunately your observation is not correct. If you change an exchange rate with future validity,
currency data in the entire horizon (past and future) adopts to that exchange rate.
It doesn't matter whether KF is ready for input or not as data is stored in any one currency only in PA and conversion happen only when you change the currency in the planning book (column 0)
Do some more testing and you will notice the above behaviour.
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Cheers
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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
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/ed/310538c7cb583ae10000009b38f8cf/content.htm
which ends with the word
CONTENT
change the word content to FRAMESET
eg
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/ed/310538c7cb583ae10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
and you get the sorrounding help for this specific topic.

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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
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Sujay

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?
Regadrs
Sujay Joshi
91-9833464511

Hi Sujay,
Have a look at the below thread.
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