SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO)

Hi Gurus,
Please email me details of APO. I don't have any idea about it and now i have to work on it. I will appreciate any documents and material. My email ID is [email protected]
I look forward for your help.
Thanks
NewBW

NewBW
Please see these links
www.service.sap.com/scm
You will find good documentstion about APO over here
BW with APO
APO and BW
Hope this helps
Thnaks
Sat

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Does anyone know if the DP Add-in for Microsoft Excel is doing well. How does it pull/push data on the DP tool? Is it fast, and is it a free add-in ?

Hi Satish
As you know business always loves to work in excel and if we offer this possibility they are going to appreciate it very much.
We have already perform PoC for the excel frontend in out business scenario and looks really positive. At the same time, I will also say that there is still big room for improvement for SAP. SAP is already coming with better excel front end but only with IBM demand solution.
so going back to our topic, I would say surely you should go for it. It would be really great if you have data view with less or minimum key figures should be exported to excel where business require to update or maintain key figures. If I am correct, I think you are unable to use it for aggregate forecasting or you have default macro´s to be execute immediately.
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How we can define flexible User Constraints in SAP APO SNP ? Meaning standard constraints can be configured in SAP APO SNP but how we can configured real time customer constraints?
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Hi,
You can use CIF user exit CIFMAT01 for this purpose. You can follow below path in SAP for more details
SPRO---SAP refrenceIMG----Integration with other SAP components---Advanced Planning and Optimization---Application specific settingsand enhancements---Enhancement for materials---Influence data before transfer to APO on user specific basis.
YOu can read help in above path about exit.
YOu need ABAP person who need to code this. What you need is read custom field from table from MARC and Populate in procurement cose field in this exit.
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SAP APO with SAP BW

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We need to integrate SAP APO with SAP BW. Does any one know what an APO is? If there is a document which provides an overview of what an APO is,
(or) bulk document sap apo with sap bi ppt.
Thanks in advance.
Gopi. G.

hi,
SAP APO is for Demand Planning and is a component of mySAP SCM. It enables dynamic supply chain management and which in turn includes applications for detailed planning, optimization and scheduling, allowing the supply chain to be accurately and globally monitored even beyond enterprise boundaries.
Check the link for info on APO
http://www.sap-img.com/sap-apo.htm
The following link gives complete information about APO,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/92/dd013872af2946e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
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Re: SAP APO
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ABAP report to display material wise forecasted value in sap APO

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I want to create a ABAP report in which i want to display the forecasted values of the material from the planning book.
Could anyone please help me with the information with any database table or the function module or any other source to get the forecasted value against the key figure ZCONSTR form the planning book data.
It's very urgent.....Awaiting your reply.
Edited by: Komal Bhutada on Jul 22, 2011 5:50 PM

Hi,
You can more details from transaction BAPI->Supply Chain Management ->Advanced Planning and Optimization ->PlanningBookAPS ->GetDetail2 .Here you can find input parameter and in detail documentation.
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SAP SCM and SAP APO: Best practices, tips and recommendations

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I have been gathering useful information about SAP SCM and SAP APO (e.g., advanced supply chain planning, master data and transaction data for advanced planning, demand planning, cross-plant planning, production planning and detailed scheduling, deployment, global available-to-promise (global ATP), CIF (core interface), SAP APO DP planning tools (macros, statistical forecasting, lifecycle planning, data realignment, data upload into the planning area, mass processing u2013 background jobs, process chains, aggregation and disaggregation), and PP/DS heuristics for production planning).
I am especially interested about best practices, tips and recommendations for using and developing SAP SCM and SAP APO. For example, [CIF Tips and Tricks Version 3.1.1|https://service.sap.com/form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700006480652001E] and [CIF Tips and Tricks Version 4.0|https://service.sap.com/form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700000596412005E] contain pretty useful knowledge about CIF.
If you know any useful best practices, tips and recommendations for using and developing SAP SCM and SAP APO, I would appreciate if you could share those assets with me.
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Hi Jarmo,
Apart from what DB has suggested. you should give a good reading on the following.
-Consulting Notes (use the application component filters in search notes)
-Collective Notes (similar to the one above)
-Release Notes
-Release Restrictions
-If $$ permit subscribe to www.scmexpertonline.com. Good perspective on concepts around SAP SCM.
-There are a couple of blogs (e.g. www.apolemia.com) .. but all lack breadth.. some topics in depth.
-"Articles" section on this site (not all are classified well.. see in ECCops, mfg, SCM, Logistics etc)
-Serivce.sap.com- check the solution details overview in knowledge exchange tab. There are product presentations and collaterals for every release. Good breadth but no depth.
-Building Blocks - available for all application areas. This is limited to vanilla configuration of just making a process work and nothing more than that.
-Get the book "Sales and Operations Planning with SAP APO" by SAP Press. Its got plenty of easy to follow stuff, good perspective and lots of screen shots to make life easier.
-help.sap.com the last thing that most refer after all "handy" options (incl. this forum) are exhausted. Nevertheless, this is the superset of all "secondary" documents. But the maze of hyperlinks that start at APO might lead you to something like xml schema.
Key Tip: Appreciate that SAP SCM is largely driven by connected execution systems (SAP ECC/ERP). So the best place to start with should be a good overview of ERP OPS solution overview, at least at the significant level of depth.). Check this document at sdn wiki "ERP ops architecture overview".
I have some good collection of documents though many i havent read myself. If you need them let me know.
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SAP APO and WM

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Is it possible to put some warehouse related controls and limitations in SAP APO (SCM) without having EWM? For example, a certain warehouse can only process 300 orders and if anyone tries to place order beyond 300 then it automatically pushes the CGID to next day?
Second example can be on availability of truck? If the Truck leaves Warehouse only twice a day for a certain customer, then APO (SCM) automatically place the order on those two days?
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Ali
You might be able to get GATP to meet at least some of your requirements with some creative thinking and enhancements. Standard GATP does not consider warehouse (field is not transferred from ECC to GATP during the ATP check), so you would add that to the field catalog through an enhancement (relatively simple). You could then use Product allocation functionality to limit the warehouse to 300 orders per day. Standard product allocation functionality is based on order quantities, not number of orders, so you would need an enhancement to modify this behaviour (sounds simple, but you would have to explore).
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Can some one guide me on How to extract SAP APO Data in to BODS?
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Raj

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Difference between SAP/APO/DP and the SAP/CRM solution for forecasting

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Step by step procedure to establish connect between SAP APO and SAP PI

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Can any one provide me link or step by step procedure to establish or exchange messages between SAP APO and SAP PI.
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Hi,
>>>Can any one provide me link or step by step procedure to establish or exchange messages between SAP APO and SAP PI
sure
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Actually I am a BASIS admin. I want to explore the BASIS -APO administration side. What do you suggest on this.
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What is the future of SAP APO?

Standard support for SAP APO which is a part of SAP SCM 7.0 will be stopped in 2025. After that, what will happen (apart from extended paid support) ? Which one of the following is correct?
New version of SAP SCM Powered by SAP HANA will replace SAP SCM 7.0. So, APO will not change much, though it will have added capabilities because of new SAP HANA platform.
Though SAP IBP is not a substitute SAP APO currently, it will have SAP APO capabilities as well in future and will eventually replace SAP APO.
SAP IBP will replace both SAP APO and SAP HANA based APO.
Even SAP didn’t plant that yet. It has not released a plan or road map yet. So, anything might happen.
Does S4HANA have planning functions? If yes, where will it stand in SAP’s portfolio of planning products, in future?
Kindly give links for more information along with your answers, if possible. Thanks.

Ho Satheesh,
Below details are based on notes which I had written in the past and it may not be accurate.
As per my knowledge on SAP's new SCM Strategy, Integrated Business Planning solution comprises sales and operations Planning, Inventory Planning, Demand and Supply Planning. IBP(Integrated Business Planning solution) will not include GATP/PP-DS. GATP will part of Logistics and order fulfillment and will be clubbed on ECC side.
SAP IBP will come with the speed of the SAP HANA platform and with/without SAP Cloud option. Logistics and order fulfillment (ECC) track will focus on solutions in the areas - customer service, distribution and fulfillment and logistic network. Focus is definitely on end-to-end and advance visibility, tight integration/consolidation, real time planning/execution and analytics etc and HANA will be on the spotlight.
SAP definitely has a great vision and positive step forward for developing more integrated, technologically powerful and user-centric solution. Now they must execute on that vision to make it real, since they are many hurdles too - one of them current APO installed base.
SAP APO may still be required to support some operational and optimization features and but others areas/features of APO are expected to merge completely with ERP or IBP side or may be something else.
Standard support for APO will stop in 2020. however extended support will be available beyond 2020 for 3-5 years period.
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From a technical perspective, what is it that a developer should know to work on SAP APO with SAP R/3 integration. Kindly elaborate on this if you can...
Thanks in advance.
Marvin
Edited by: Marvin Jones on Feb 3, 2008 5:09 AM

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Senthil,
During the creation of the Sales order in SAP R/3 a Purchase requisition is created in SAP APO
?? I guess you are talking about one of the planning procedures that executes 'Start product heuristic immediately', yes?
and assigned with temporary sales order
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Prigramming Logic details for SAP APO Planning Models

Hi All,
I need to learn more about different model available in SAP APO - DP, SNP and their behaviour.
Request to please share any link or document associated with programming logic in different planning models available in APO.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi Senthil,
Thanks dear for your response.
What I am looking in programming details of exisiting DP forecasting models like Trend Analysis, Linear Regression.
What I know about MLR is that system uses below equation
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bo = Mean
b2 = co-efficients
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