SAP APO (Advanced Planning and Optimisation) Training

A warm welcome to the SAP APO course by Uplatz.

SAP APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization, also called Advanced Planner and Optimizer) is primarily the supply chain management application module from SAP. SAP APO module helps an organization to manage its supply chain process and network.

SAP APO consists of four sub-modules:

1. DP (Demand Planning)

2. SNP (Supply Network Planning)

3. PPDS (Production Planning and Detail Scheduling)

4. GATP (Global Available to Promise)

SAP APO helps to enhance and streamline the supply chain management (SCM) of an organization by providing the following features:

• Integrated functionality for demand and supply

• Production planning

• Global available-to-promise (ATP).

• Maximize supply network efficiency

• Forecasting and demand management

Uplatz provides this comprehensive SAP APO training covering the Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning components of SAP APO. In this SAP APO course, you will gain knowledge of supply chain process, from procurement, production, to dispatch. The SAP APO course will help you gain complete understanding of SAP APO module to forecast SCM results, plan SCM strategies, and manage the entire SCM process along with optimization of the same.

SAP APO - Course Syllabus

1. Supply Chain Management and SAP APO Overview

• SAP APO Demand Planning Overview

2. DP - Demand Planning

• Model & Version, Storage Bucket Profile, Time Bucket Profiles

• MPOS and CVCs

• Planning Area and Time Series

• Planning Books and Data Views

• Master Forecasting Profile, Univariate Profile

• Interactive Planning Screen Details

• Statistical Forecasting

• Life Cycle Management

• Macros

• Alerts Management

• Mass Processing / Back Ground Jobs

• Proportional Factors / Aggregation and Disaggregation

• Realignment and Copy

• Forecast Release to SNP

• Product Split and Location Split

• Calendars, Time Stream ID and Fiscal Year Variants.

3. BW/BI - Business Intelligence specific to DP (APO DP - BW/BI)

• Overview of SAP APO DP with BW/BI Integration

• Info Area, Info Objects, Characteristics and Key Figures

• Info Cubes

• Process Chains

CIF - Core Interface

• Overview of Core Interface

• Logical Systems, RFC, Business System Group, CIF Connections

• ECC to APO Data Transfer (Master and Transactional)

• APO to ECC data Transfer

• CIF Monitoring and Error Handling

SNP - Supply Network Planning

• SNP Overview

• Administrative Data in SNP like MPOS, Planning Area, and Planning Books etc.

• General Setting in SNP

• SNP Profiles

• Location, Product Master Data

• Resource, PPM / PDS and Transportation Lanes Master Data

• SNP Heuristics

• SNP Deployment and TLB

• SNP Optimizer

• SNP CTM