The document provides an overview of Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO), a module of SAP. It discusses the key sub-modules of APO, including demand planning, supply network planning, production planning, global available-to-promise, and transportation management. The presentation aims to explain how these sub-modules work together to optimize the supply chain through demand forecasting, production scheduling, and transportation planning.

1. Master in Computer Application
Presentation
On
“Advanced Planning And Optimization”
Presented by
Hitesh Kumar Markam(38)

2. Introduction
• Advanced Planning and Optimization(APO)
module of SAP.
is one of the most important
• SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) offers a fully integrated
pallet of functions that you use to plan and execute your supply chain
processes. SAP APO supports the following:
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Business collaboration on a strategic, tactical, and operational planning
level.
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Co-operation between partners at all stages of the supply chain
process; from order receipt, stock monitoring, through final shipping of
the product.
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Cultivation of customer and business partner relationships.
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Constant optimization and evaluation of the supply chain network’s
efficiency.

3. Modules Of APO
The sub modules of Advanced Planning and Optimization are:
• Demand Planning.
• Supply Network Planning / CIF.
• Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling.
• Global Available to promise / Deployment.
• Transportation Management.

4. Demand Planning
• This is a subset of Demand Management.
• It is a business planning process that enables sales teams(and customers) to develop
demand forecasts and inputs to feed various planning processes, production, inventory
planning, procurement planning and revenue planning.
• Based on estimated product demand, a firm can plan for deployment of its resources to
meet this demand .
• It is a bottom-up process as different from any top-down management process .
• It is also seen as a multistep operational SCM process to create reliable demand
forecasts.
• Effective demand planning helps to improve accuracy of revenue forecasts, align
inventory levels in line with demand changes and enhance product-wise/channel-wise
profitability.
• Its purpose can be seen as to drive the supply chain to meet customer demands thro
effective management of company resources.

5. Product Planning/Detailed Scheduling
The Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) component:
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To create procurement proposals for in-house production or external procurement to
cover product requirements.
To optimize and plan the resource schedule and the order dates/times in detail.
You can take the resource and component availability into account here. Above all,
PP/DS is used to plan critical products, such as products with long replenishment lead
times or products that are produced on bottleneck resources. You can use PP/DS to
create executable production plans .
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Reduce lead times
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Increase on-time delivery performance
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Increase the throughput of products and reduce the stock costs, through better
coordination of resources, production, and procurement

6. Supply Network Planning(CIF)
• Overview of supply planning concept.
• Supply planning, interactive supply planning, integration with other SCM components.
• Planning methods : Heuristics, optimization and CTM.
• Deployment.
• Transport load builder.
• Releasing supply plans to DP, PPDS.
• CIF core interface : Introduction to Architecture of integration.
• Monitoring and handling CIF errors.
• Comparison and reconciliation.
• Initial and change transfers, background jobs.

7. Global Available To Promise
• Overview of availability management in ECC-APO.
• Global ATP is a type of availability check.
• Global ATP is a business function that provides a response to customer order inquiries,
base on resource availability.
• Execution of an ATP run generates available quantities of the requested product and
delivery due dates.
• This helps companies support order promising and fulfillment, aiming to manage
demand and match it to production and procurement plans while maximizing on
customer service.

8. Transportation Management
o Purpose
• Moving goods from one plant to another
• Transportation planing
o Benefits
• Transportation execution monitoring
o Key Process Steps
• Create Stock Transfer Order
• Creating an Outbound Delivery for Purchase Orders
• Checking the Generated Outbound Delivery
• Generating a Shipment Document
• Creating a New Transfer Order Order with the Same Plant
• Creating an Outbound Delivery for the New Stock Transfer Order
• Adding a New Delivery to the Existing Shipment
• Maintaining Delivery Picking and Posting Goods Issue
• Goods Receipt with reference to Purchase Order