Training Details

These are the courses specially customized for SAP ABAP functionals to complement your ABAP expertise with the knowledge of SCM/APO. These are not the regular courses and are usually offered only couple of times a year.

The course teaches the general concepts of the APO and then walks you through the usage of ABAP in APO and its differences with respect to traditional ABAP. It also provides an overview of the CIF (Core interface), CIF-Debugging, Queues, CIF enhancements, APO enhancements etc.

Duration

• 12-15 Hours

Pre-Requisites

• Good knowledge of any ERP system - preferably SAP
• Experience in ABAP Programming

Course Contents

1. Overview of the MySAP-SCM Suite of applications and APO in SAP
2. Modules in APO
• Demand Planning (DP)
• Supply Network Planning (SNP)
• Production Planning and Detailed scheduling (PP/DS).
• Global Available to promise (GATP)
• Supplier network collaboration (SNC)
3. Master data and Transaction data in APO/ECC
• Material master
• Workcenter/Resources
• Bill of Materials
• Routing
• Production Versions
• Vendors/Customers
• APO Product
• PDS/PPM in APO
• Transportation lanes
4. APO-ECC Integration
• Overview of Queues
• Overview of CIF ( Core interface)
• Creation of Integration models.
• Activation of integration models.
• Debugging the data transfer from ECC to APO and vice versa
5. APO Architecture and Live Cache
• APO architecture
• Live Cache in APO
• Data Storage in APO - Time Series/Order Series.
• Planning area/MPOS in DP/GATP/SNP
• Creating CVC's.
• Loading data into the Cube.
• Planning books in DP
• Planning books in SNP
• PP/DS transactions - Product view / Resource view / DS board
6. Enhancements/BADI in APO
• Module pool concept in SAP
• Working with Screens:
  • CIF enhancements in ECC for master data transfer
  • CIF enhancements in ECC for transaction data transfer
  • Important BADI's in DP
  • Important BADI/Userexits in SNP
  • Important BADI/Userexits in PP/DS
  • Important BADI/Userexits in other modules
7. Other Topics
• Application logs in APO
• Queue errors / Queue monitoring.
• CCR Report