Duration
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Course Goals
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- 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, warehouse 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.
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Target Audience
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- This course is intended for
project team members and other key users (persons from special
departments) responsible for creating and optimizing rough-cut
production plans, distribution resource plans, and supply plans for the
entire supply chain in the medium to long-term horizon.
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Prerequisites
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Essential:
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Software Component(s) and Release(s)
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Course Content
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- Overview of Supply Chain
Planning in SAP SCM (APO), Integration with Demand
Planning (DP) and Production Planning (PP/DS)
- Exchanging master and
transaction data with SAP R/3
- Creation of master data for
supply network planning. Product interchangeability
- 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.
- Distinction of SAP APO Transportation Planning
(TP/VS)
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