APO-Demand Planning and SNP

Demand Planning and SNP form the two major planning modules in APO offering the complete functionality related to managing the Demand and supply and implementing an effective S&OP process for an organization.

This training course will help the participants to understand the concepts of the DP and SNP and introduce them to the real life business scenarios wherein they can utilize these tools for implementing the functionality for the client.


About the Course

​This course will cover all the major theoretical concepts, design of the system, building up of a model, configuration and testing of the model. It is aimed at the participants who are looking for switching their career as APO consultants.


Duration

  • 40 Hours (4-5 Weekends - Saturday's and Sundays - 5 hours each day)


Course Contents

Demand Planning​

  • Introductions to Supply Chain Management
  • APO Architecture and ECC Integration ( Business System Group, CIF, Queues etc.)
  • APO Overview - Different modules in APO - DP/SNP/GATP/PP-DS/SPP/CIF etc.
  • Overview of Demand Planning Concept
  • Introduction to the Business Warehouse, Data Marts, info-cubes & Demand Planning
  • Design of Planning model for the business. Define the Characteristics, Key-Figures, Aggregation and disaggregation levels.
  • Definition of master data for demand planning.
  • Configuration Settings for the demand planning for implementing the planning model - Design of History cubes, Planning object structures, Planning area , Planning Books, Storage bucket profiles, Key-figures etc.
  • Design and development of Advanced Macros
  • Design and development of alerts and exception messages.
  • Interactive Demand Planning and Forecasting
  • Statistical toolbox for Forecasting, Promotions Planning and Life Cycle Planning ( Phase-in/Phase-Out/Like Modelling)
  • Mass Processing in APO
  • Release of Forecast/Demand Plans from DP to SNP and ECC for downstream planning.
  • Exception Processing and Alert Generation
  • Backing up of demand planning data.

Supply Network Planning / Core Interface (CIF)​
  • Overview of Supply Planning Concept and the S&OP Process
  • Design of supply chain network
  • Master data for the SNP - Products, Locations, Resources, PDS/PPM, Transportation lanes etc.
  • CIF Core Interface: Introduction to Architecture of Integration between ECC and APO.
  • Master Data and Transaction data Integration with ECC/R/3 systems.
    • Configuration of Business system groups, Queues etc.
    • Definition of Integration models, activation of integration models.
    • Monitoring Queues and handling errors.
  • Supply Planning methods - Heuristics, Optimization & CTM - Concepts, process and configuration.
  • Safety Stock planning
  • Deployment/Shipment planning, Network planning in APO. Creation of Stock transfer requisitions, conversion of STR to STO etc.
  • Transport Load Builder / Truck load building process.
  • Releasing Supply Plans to DP, PPDS, ECC
  • Alerts and Exceptions processing in SNP.