SAP advance Planner & Optimizer / Supply Chain Management - Implementation & End User

Course Overview

SAP Advance Planner & Optimizer along with Supply Chain Management (SCM) topic. This is the BPX/SDN WIKI starting point for topics around Supply Chain Management. It includes a collection of planning applications related to Advanced Planning, Optimization, Scheduling and Integration with other SAP execution applications.

Course Outline

Session 1

• Demand Planning
• Introductions, APO Overview
• Overview of Demand Planning Concept
• Datamart, info-cubes & Demand Planning
• Planning area and Planning Books
• Macros & Notes
• Interactive Planning
• Statistical toolbox, Promotions and Life Cycle Planning

Session 2

• Supply Network Planning / Core Interface (CIF)
• Mass Processing and Release of Plans
• Exception Processing and Alert Generation
• Overview of Supply Planning Concept
• Supply Planning, Interactive Supply Planning, Integration with other SCM components
• Planning Methods: Heuristics, Optimization & CTM
• Deployment
• Transport Load Builder
• Releasing Supply Plans to DP, PPDS, ECC
• CIF Core Interface : Introduction to Architecture of Integration< Master Data, Integration to R/3

Session 3

• Global Available-to-Promise
• Planning in ECC – APO with Integration
• Initial & Change Transfers, Background Jobs
• Monitoring & Handling CIF Errors
• Comparison & Reconciliation
• Overview of Availability Management in ECC-APO
• Principles and configuration of Availability Check
• Check using Product Allocations
• Advanced Methods

Session 4

• Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling
• Rule based Check
• Multi-Level ATP
• Explanation & Simulation Feature
• Global ATP/OPTP interface
• Overview of PPDS, Prerequisites, Prod. Planning with ECC
• Master Data & Transaction data Integration with ECC, SNP, DP, GATP
• Demand Management, Requirements & Sales Orders in PPDS
• Production Planning Strategies (Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock)
• Planning Heuristics
• Capacity Requirements, Capacity Planning / Leveling
• Optimizer

Session 5

• Conclusion
• Exception Processing, Alert Generation
• Free Discussions, Questions
• Consulting Practice Planning
• Further Reference Sources
• Conclusion

What will I learn?

• Configuration knowledge and User End knowledge of SAP in all modules.
• Consultant Level Training and many other additional information about SAP Integration which belongs to Expert level.

We also provide you the following Facilities

• SAP Live access from Germany
• Certified Trainers with 5+ Years of experience in SAP.
• We are not providing fake installed software’s of SAP, instead we have Live SAP Access.

Target Audience:
SAP Users, Accountants, Managers, Sales Managers, CA, CPA, ICWA, Human Resource Managers, IT Programmer