APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization) application is at the heart of SCM. It offers planning and optimization functionalities in different business processes of Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supply and Demand Matching, Production Planning Detailed Scheduling, Global Available to Promise and Transportation Management. SAP APO functionalities enable Plan to Inventory End to End Business Processes. SAP Advanced Planner and Optimization is designed to help a company improve production planning, pricing, scheduling, and product shipping. APO works by getting real-time updates from retailers about customer demand. To get best SAP-APO Training in Chandigarh, join GB training & placement centre today!

Course content

Chapter 1. Demand Planning

• Introductions, APO Overview
• Overview of Demand Planning Concept
• Data mart, info-cubes & Demand Planning
• Planning area and Planning Books
• Macros & Notes
• Interactive Planning
• Statistical toolbox, Promotions and Life Cycle Planning
• Mass Processing and Release of Plans
• Exception Processing and Alert Generation

Chapter 2. Supply Network Planning / (CIF)

• Overview of Supply Planning Concept
• Supply Planning, Interactive Supply Planning, Integration with other SCM components
• Planning Methods: Heuristics, Optimization & CTM
• Deployment
• Transport Load Builder
• Releasing Supply Plans to DP, PPDS, ECC
• CIF Core Interface: Introduction to Architecture of Integration
• Master Data, Integration to R/3
• Planning in ECC – APO with Integration Model Generation
• Initial & Change Transfers, Background Jobs
• Monitoring & Handling CIF Errors
• Comparison & Reconciliation

Chapter 3. Global Available-to-Promise

• Overview of Availability Management in ECC-APO
• Principles and configuration of Availability Check
• Check using Product Allocations
• Advanced Methods
• Rule based Check
• Multi-Level ATP
• Explanation & Simulation Feature
• Global ATP/OPTP interface

Chapter 4. Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling

• Overview of PPDS, Prerequisites, Prod. Planning with ECC
• Master Data & Transaction data Integration with ECC, SNP, DP, GATP
• Demand Management, Requirements & Sales Orders in PPDS
• Production Planning Strategies (Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock)
• Planning Heuristics
• Capacity Requirements, Capacity Planning
• Optimizer
• Exception Processing, Alert Generation
• Free Discussions, Questions
• Consulting Practice Planning
• Further Reference Sources
• Conclusion