Sales and Inventory Planning with SAP APO - Hoppe, Marc
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An efficient and flexible supply chain begins with detailed, high-quality planning. This comprehensive reference shows you how you can optimize your organization's planning using the cross-enterprise components SAP APO-DP (demand planning) and SAP APO-SNP (inventory planning).
An in-depth overview of SAP APO is quickly followed by a description of the basic principles of demand planning. Then, readers learn all the details of executing the planning process-from selecting and using the right forecasting method to lifecycle planning to adapting master data using the realignment function. The…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
An efficient and flexible supply chain begins with detailed, high-quality planning. This comprehensive reference shows you how you can optimize your organization's planning using the cross-enterprise components SAP APO-DP (demand planning) and SAP APO-SNP (inventory planning).

An in-depth overview of SAP APO is quickly followed by a description of the basic principles of demand planning. Then, readers learn all the details of executing the planning process-from selecting and using the right forecasting method to lifecycle planning to adapting master data using the realignment function. The book's second focus is on inventory planning. Again, readers get a detailed introduction to Customizing techniques and the relevant master data. Then, discover the various planning processes and methods available for successful inventory planning, best practices for a safety stock plan, and how you can optimize your processes using SAP APO-SNP.

The final chapters of this book describe available integration options and the architecture of SAP APO, as well as a suggested process for successful implementation.

Highlights include:

Basic Principles of Demand Planning: Configuring the Administrator Workbench and the Planning Area, Master Data, Planning Books, Advanced Macros
Implementation of Demand Planning: Forecasts, Forecast Quality, Lifecycle, Promotion, and Collaborative Demand Planning, BOMs
Basic Principles of Inventory Planning: Configuration, Master Data, Production Process Model, Production Data Structure, Transportation Lane
Implementation of Inventory Planning: Heuristic, Optimization, Capable-to-Match, Deployment, Transport Load Builder
Integration and Architecture: Plug-Ins, CIF, BAPI, Integration with SAP NetWeaver BI, Sizing, liveCache
Implementation Process: ASAP, SAP Solution Manager, Project Organization
Autorenporträt
Hoppe, Marc
After finishing his studies in business administration at Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen in Lüneburg, Germany, and at John Moores University in Liverpool, England, Marc Hoppe joined CAS AG, Germany as an SAP developer in the logistics and production planning areas. Later, he became a logistics consultant and was responsible for implementing national and international SAP R/3 projects. Since 1998, he has worked as a Supply Chain Management (SCM) consultant at SAP SI AG. Marc Hoppe is responsible for the business-relevant and IT-based implementation and optimization of SCM processes, as well as the re-engineering of entire supply chain processes. In 2001, he became Consulting Director for SCM, and since 2003, he has managed additionally the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) unit. Marc Hoppe consults for large corporations such as Siemens, Unilever, Gillette, Philips, Deutsche Telekom, and Philip Morris, as well as medium-sized companies like G+H Isover or Fe

rtiva. He has published numerous works on inventory optimization.