Finding Product Demand in SCM/APO

Does anyone have any idea on where I can read data regarding to history of demand for a product on the SCM side? I'm working on a report that requires "detailed demand history" for 12 months and for 24 months, and is run within SCM only. In ECC that is a table MVER that shows demand by period for a product. I'm looking for something similar to that. Thank you for your help.

Typically one should have implemented APO DP module to see history and for this it would be important to import this data into APO.
In SNP, you can view open sales orders but not the ones that have been post goods issued.
Overall, you would need to activate quite a few things to see Product Demand in APO.

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Hi Animesh
If you do not know what the order number that was created then you can go into the product view to find the order. As you are aware this transaction is by product (also enter location and version 000). Press enter and do not press the Create Order button. This takes you into a screen where all elements for the product are shown. You will need to know what date the order was created on then you can find it. Since you are looking for planned purchase orders these should come into APO as planned requisitions in which case your order should appear with either 'PurRqs' or 'SNP: PReq' in the Category column. I believe if you double click into the order you can see all of the products.
If you do know the order number (maybe sales order is updated in CRM?) then use transaction /sapapo/rrp2.
Be sure that you are looking for purchase orders and not planned orders - the method to view them will be the same just different categories in the categories column.
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Experts,
I don't know, Is it the right place to post, but I am confident about only your suggestions.
I need your valuable suggestion to learn and built my career in SCM APO. I have been into technologies ABAP, SAP Console, RFID, WM, and have knowledge about SCM EWM. I am very much interested to learn SAP APO,but I don't have knowledge about this module how the future will be.
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Thanks in advance...
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You sure have very good experience in SAP but please let me know if you have any domain experience as well in any Industry. Because WM or EWM is not going to be of any help to you in understanding the business requirements. More over the Modules that are primarily used by the clients are Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling,
Global Availability to Promise, Transport Planning and Vehicle Scheduling.These are the key modules for which there is a reuiqrement for Consultants.
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This is my personal opinion... Choice is yours
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I am Sarav, Master student doing International Food Business and Consumer Studies from University of Kassel, Germany. In addition I finished my certification in C_TERP10_65: "SAP Certified Associate Business Foundation & Integration with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5".
Currently I am looking for a master thesis topic in areas like SCM, SRM, SCM APO since my area of specialisation is supply chain management. I read quite number of research articles but I am struggling to find a starting point for my thesis .
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3) Look at the SCN Business Analytics Community - http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc
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Find a problem that's worth fixing. Find something that helps the product or solution...yes...ultimately helps the customer.
Be focused. Don't try to address to many things. Your starting with a very big topics. Find a compelling issue with your key supporting points.
Write on something your passionate about. There are many, many approaches...I trust you'll find a good one!
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Rob,
As a general rule of thumb, for each ECC client you will probably want an SCM client. From your landscape description, it is not clear to me in which clients you perform the everyday functions of development/test/production, but I guess you have already worked that out. Without knowing exactly how you manage your environment, I will say that it is probably a good idea to have active CIF connections between each of the three pairs of clients. Once you have set up a single connection between your first pair (ECC/SCM), you will find that setting up the second and third is pretty trivial.
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Adopt new data
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Change existing data
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Hello
We are trying to view aggregated sales history data in APO SPP via transaction /SAPAPO/SPPMDH
We have loaded sales order data from flat file into DSO 9ARAWDAT & infocube 9ADEMAND. We can see the data in the cubes & also via the standard queries attached to 9ADEMAND cube.
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Could you please let us know if anything is missing? Thanks in advance

Santanu Paul wrote:
Hello
>
> We are trying to view aggregated sales history data in APO SPP via transaction /SAPAPO/SPPMDH
>
> We have loaded sales order data from flat file into DSO 9ARAWDAT & infocube 9ADEMAND. We can see the data in the cubes & also via the standard queries attached to 9ADEMAND cube.
>
> Also we are able to adjust sales order item level data via transaction /SAPAPO/SPPMRD: Adjust Raw Data .
>
> However we are unable to see any data when we try to adjust aggregated demand history via transaction /SAPAPO/SPPMDH.
>
> The replenishment indicator is stocked & the forecast periodicity is maintained as well.
>
> Could you please let us know if anything is missing? Thanks in advance
Hello,
Check this stuff (from help.sap.com) we had a quite similar issue, until we've fixed it:
For the demand categories we defined to be in your system, you have transferred the DataSources 9ADEM_CAT and 9ADEM_CAT_TXT as well as InfoSources 9ADEM_CAT and 9ADEM_CAT_TXT to the Business intelligence system (BI system) in SAP SCM and activated them. You have transferred the following InfoPackages for these InfoSources:
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Note
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SCM APO can we copy the data from client 001 to client 002???

Hi Guru's
SCM APO can we copy the data from client 001 to client 002???
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Yes you can do.
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User masters: You select this option, for example, if you want to give all users of an existing client the same authorizations in the target client.
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Client-specific and cross-client Customizing: You select this option, for example, if you want to set up a quality assurance system based on the production client of another system.
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Hi,
before to begin: I don't really understand what you are saying: you say the forecast is not use for planning, however your think it is the cause of overstock... how can that be?
I understand the logic for componenents, but not for finish good here
Anyway, regarding your questions:
Of course DP will help you too, and the benefits you emntioned are good.
However I suggest you to do a bigger analysis of your business needs... it looks ot me that you will need more than DP.
You could use SNP to plan your finish good and components (or use a strategy such as planning at assembly level).
If your biggest challenges in inventory level then SNP is the tool that will give you a better visibility here.
I personnally think that DP BOM should be use only is specific cases. You better have to plan your component in SNP, which will be far more flexible.
In one sentence, I think that if you do decide for a DP implementation now, you biggest benefit should be: later on you will be able to use SNP for planning.
Well that is what I think....
Good luck for your challenges!
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