Course information

Content

  • Overview of Supply Chain Planning in SAP SCM (APO), Integration with Demand Planning (DP) and Production Planning (PP/DS)
  • Overview of exchanging master and transaction data with SAP ECC
  • Master data for supply network planning, interchangeability and shelf live
  • Configuring Supply Network Planning and interactive planning using planning books and macros
  • Collaborative Supply Planning (supplier and manufacturer exchange data over the Internet)
  • Integrated exception management in the alert monitor
  • Discussions about the different planning methods: Heuristic including capacity leveling, optimization, capable-to-match, VMI, and aggregate planning.
  • Cross-plant safety stock planning
  • Deployment: Implementing stock transport requisitions into manageable stock transport orders. Calculating and optimizing short-term replenishment plans for distribution centers and customers
  • Transport Load Builder (TLB): Grouping stock transfers by threshold values for volumes, weight and pallets.

Goals

  • You will gain an in-depth understanding of how to create cross-plant rough-cut production plans, distribution resource plans, and procurement plans taking into account work center capacities, supplier capacities, and transportation capacities in SAP APO. You will be able to determine feasible stock transfers in the short-term horizon (deployment) and to group these into stock transfer orders.

Audience

  • This course is intended for project team members and other key users (persons from special departments) responsible for creating and optimizing rough-cut production, procurement and distribution plans for the entire supply chain in the medium to long-term horizon and determining manageable stock transport orders in the short term horizon.

Prerequisites

Essential

  • SCM200 Business Processes in Planning (SAP SCM)
  • SCM210 SCM Core Interface APO
  • or SCM212 Integrated Supply Chain Modeling

Recommended

  • SCM220 Demand Planning

Course based on software release

  • SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 5
  • SAP SCM 7.0 Enhancement Package 1

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