SCM220 Demand Planning

Course version: 2006/Q2

Duration

• 3 day(s)

Course Goals

• Course participants gain an understanding of the integration of an SAP SCM system (APO) with an SAP ECC system (or an external system). Course participants can transfer master data from the SAP ECC system to the SCM system and they can make settings so that transaction data can be transferred between the systems.

Target Audience

• This course is aimed at project team members and key users (from the user departments) who are responsible integrating master data from the SAP SCM (APO) system with an SAP ECC system.

Prerequisites

Essential:

• SCM200 Overview of Advanced Planning (SCM)

   Recommended:

• BW310 BI - Enterprise Data Warehousing
• BW350 BI - Data Acquisition

Software Component(s) and Release(s)

• ERP 6.0
• SCM 5.0

Course Content

• Overview of the planning concepts and data structures
• Transfer aggregated historical data to the internal APO BW system
• Define the planning levels for creating aggregated plans
• Generate master data (characteristics combinations and proportional factors)
• Configure Demand Planning using planning areas, planning object structures, planning books and macros
• Generate your own exception messages (alerts) using macros
• Cooperative Demand Planning (exchanging data between the customer and manufacturer over the Internet)
• Demand Planning with statistical forecasting, causal analysis and combined forecasts
• Mass processing planning tasks in the background
• Release the results of Demand Planning as a planned independent demand for Supply Network Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.