Regarding APO

Hi All,
I would like to know the necessity of using APO?. In fact we are doing good planning through MRP,Capacity planning etc in SAP ECC,then what is the necessity to have APO?. What are the features that are not in SAP R/3 or ECC and that is available in APO?.
Can anyone provide me some inputs.
Thanks in advance.

hi,
check forum below:
General Discussion - Why to choose APO over R/3 for planning?

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I have a question regarding APO and BI Integrated Planning. If we are using APO DP is it a good option to implement BI Integrated planning as well. because both of them have the same planning and forecasting strategies. Is BI Integrated Planning and alternate option for APO DP or can it be used along with APO DP for planning on certain reports. Thank you very much for your time.
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I have personnally never use the BI integrating planning, but based on my knowledges; hopefully somebody with more experience in this area will be able to complete this answer!
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Can anyone tell me how to upload flat file(e.g xls, csv) in planning book against key figures(e.g forecast) in some characteristics level(e.g brand, sku etc)?
Is it possible to have screen shots or path to follow?

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Please assist me in the following issues:
What will the impact if any material is ciffed twice or multiple times from ECC to APO through IM ...will it generate inconsistency ? if so, how we can avoid this ?
While I'm ciffing the material from ECC to APO through IM, the ' Find Master Data Object ' is showing certain number say 'X' but when I'm running CTM for it the explosion of BOM of Master Data is showing less number of material than 'X'...in that case what might be the possible issue ?
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Hi Michael,
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3. Its recommended to have a separate integration model for your object.
Read this document with the Best Practices:
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Help regarding Scheduling date calculation in APO using Condition Technique

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For a material MAT1, a stock of 15 is available today i.e. on 15/05/2014 and a Planned Order of 35 is available on 01/08/2014. I have created a Sales Order of 50 today i.e. 15/05/2014 for this material with a RDD of 20/05/2014. I have maintained the LEAD and the TRAN times as 5 days and 10 days respectively. These are maintained for a particular Route. LOAD, PICK, and UNLD are 0. In the Location master, I haven't defined any Calendar. So, it has to consider all days as working without any holidays.
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Hello Srikanth,
Let us differentiate the problem into two pieces.
1) Incorrect Scheduling
2) Future receipts not being considered.
For the second problem, future reciepts not being considered, which is on 01/08/2014, please check if your system is allowing you to go further and do the confirmation. How long is your Checking Horizon ? Is your checking horizon configured enough to go ahead and pick this reciept element to give the confirmation by creating a second schedule line ?
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We have implemented the APO in our client & planning happening through APO only. If we have stock at QUALITY INSPECTION STOCK in ECC, APO should consider this stock also while doing the planning.
Lets say example: I have stock of 50 in unrestricted & 100 in Quality inspection stock in ECC. While planning APO should consider the stock as 150 and should calculate the proposal quantity for remaining amount.
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I would agree with Debashis on this, you can control this from demand tab in product master in APO.
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I am using APO 5.1 connected to an ECC 5 system.
I am using ECC transaction CFC9 for CIF settings.
How do the 'change transfer' settings (online/periodic) in transaction CFC9 actually relate to the use of the online change transfer via CFC5 and the use of the periodic change transfer via CFP1. Is there a dependency here?
Thanks for any advice on this...

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CFC9 is where you specify what way you want to have the data transfer for master data from R/3 to APO - online, periodic or no transfer.
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Urgent !!!! regarding 9AVERSION (APO DP)

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I have one question .I just wanted to know ,when we get the sales history data from R3 to an history cube for APODP process, How do we need to add 9AVERSION char in the cube ? Do we need to create as a flate file and add that one inHistory cube or any otherway
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Here is an example rule that you can implement:
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Clarification on details regarding getting data from APO into BW

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I observed that SAP has provided standard data flows for PPDS module, where as for the Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning SAP has just provided some standard InfoCubes ex: 0APO_C07, 0APO_C10, 0APO_C11, 0APO_C12.
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Hi Sunitha, thanks for your inputs. So does that mean for Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning, SAP has not given any standard DataSources because it makes more sense to build DataSources from the planning books as each company has their own planning strategies based on how they do there business. Right?
And for these modules there is no other way rather than generating DataSources from Planning Books and build the Data Flows based on it. Right?
Also these generated DataSources i.e. 9A**** pull data from live cache itself right or is there any setting that we need to enable for it to get data from live cache?
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