Supply Chain Management with APO: Structures, Modelling Approaches and Implementation of mySAP SCM 4.1

✍ Scribed by Dr. Jörg Thomas Dickersbach (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 494
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Advanced Planner and Optimiser (APO) is the software from SAP dedicated to supply chain management. This book provides an overview about the supported SCM processes and explains how to implement APO in a company. It is written from a long years' experience in implementation projects and provides project managers and team members with the necessary know-how for a successful implementation project. The focus of the book is on introducing modelling approaches and explaining the structure and interdependencies of systems, modules and entities of APO based on the release mySAP SCM 4.1. Another concern is the integration with R/3, both technically and from a process point of view. Since APO projects differ significantly from other SAP projects, some key issues and common mistakes concerning project management are mentioned as well.

✦ Table of Contents

Supply Chain Management Projects with APO....Pages 3-8
SCM Processes and APO Modules....Pages 9-13
APO Architecture....Pages 15-29
Demand Planning....Pages 33-82
Forecast Consumption & Planning Strategies....Pages 83-92
Order Fulfilment Overview....Pages 95-96
Sales....Pages 97-140
Transportation Planning....Pages 141-158
Distribution & Supply Chain Planning Overview....Pages 161-177
Integrated Distribution & Production Planning....Pages 179-203
Distribution Planning....Pages 205-214
Replenishment....Pages 215-233
Production Overview....Pages 237-276
Rough-Cut Production Planning....Pages 277-294
Detailed Production Planning....Pages 295-322
Sales in a Make-to-Order Environment....Pages 323-337
Detailed Scheduling....Pages 339-365
Production Execution....Pages 367-372
Modelling of Special Production Conditions....Pages 373-383
Purchasing....Pages 387-399
Subcontracting....Pages 401-411
Stock and Safety Stock....Pages 415-419
Interchangeability....Pages 421-426
Exception Reporting....Pages 427-436
Core Interface....Pages 439-459
Integration to DP....Pages 461-476

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Management; Production/Logistics; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)