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APO
BW
(Reporting)
R/3
(Production and Transport Execution)
SCM
Supply Chain Cockpit
LIS, CO-PA
HR, FI
Demand Planning
Customer
orders
Production
Scheduling
Inventory
management
Transportation
processing
Information
Warehouse
(SAP BW)
Historical
data
PP / DS
Global
ATP
Supply
Network
Planning
Deployment
Transportation Planning
SCM
Event Management
Inventory
F&R
Collaboration Hub
RFID
Key
Performance
Key figures
(KPIs)
XI-Server
XML/Mail
I/O
Planning Horizon
(production plants)
R/3
Plant
Location
APO
Customer
Product
Vendor
Resource
Material Master
Capacity
Routing and BOM
CIF
Production Process
Model
Master Data
Purchase req.
Planned Order
Stock
Transaction Data
PlOrd, Stock .)
..
Incremental Transfer
Real-time
Transaction Data
SAP R/3
NonNonR/3
R/3 System
System
LO
SD
HR
CIF
BAPI
(Core Interface)
BAPI
SAP
SAPAPO
APO
BAPI
BAPIs
Business Background
Demand Planning (DP)
Forecasting of market demand for your company's products.
This component allows you to take into consideration the many different causal
factors that affect demand. The result of APO Demand Planning is the demand
plan.
User-specific planning layouts and interactive planning books enable you to
integrate people from different departments, and even different companies, into
the forecasting process.
Using the DP library of statistical forecasting and advanced macro techniques
you can create forecasts based on demand history as well as any number of
causal factors, carry out predefined and self-defined tests on forecast models and
forecast results, and adopt a consensus-based approach to reconcile the demand
plans of different departments.
To add marketing intelligence and make management adjustments, you use
promotions and forecast overrides. The seamless integration with APO Supply
Network Planning supports an efficient S&OP process.
Typical DP process
R/3 System
SCM
BW
Demand Planning
Sales Information
System (SIS)
Perform Material
Requirements Planning
(MRP)
Determine
Realignment
Procedures
Collaboration Partner
Forecast /
Promotion Data
Collection/
Distribution
DP data model
No master data is required for demand planning!
- Plant
- Material
1.
The planning area is the basis for all activities in APO Demand Planning. It is a
collection of parameters that define the scope of all planning tasks. The planning area
is linked to the data mart. You load into the data mart the actual history (for example,
bookings, shipments or billings) that wlll be used to create the DP master data and
generate the demand forecasts.
2.
Map the structure of your company (for example, regions, divisions, brands,
products and customers) for planning purposes in the DP master data.
3.
Configure the layout of the planning screens for the different parties who will
participate in demand planning by designing planning books. Define macros to
perform calculations, carry out tests, and warn you of exceptional situations. 4.
Define forecast models for time series forecasting, causal analysis and/or composite
forecasting.
5.
Create a forecast of market demand using a top-down, middle-out, or bottom-up
approach. Choose from a wide variety of forecasting methods and techniques. See
6.
Forecast new products and discontinued products by applying lifecycle planning
and "like" modeling techniques.
7.
Plan promotions and other events. Examples of promotions are free-standing
inserts, coupons, discounts, product displays, trade shows, dealer allowances,
coupons, contests, and advertising.
8.
Fine-tune the demand plan by adding management overrides and modifications.
9.
Reconcile the demand plans of different departments by merging the plans into a
one-number, consensus forecast.
10.
Simulate different planning scenarios.
11.
Monitor exceptional or critical situations through the Alert Monitor.
12.
Make the demand plan available in SNP by releasing it. The demand plan is
often unconstrained by any production or distribution restrictions. This step can be
completed by either the demand planner or the SNP planner.
13.
Make the SNP plan available to DP by releasing it. The SNP plan takes into
account any production or distribution restrictions. A comparison of the two plans
could lead, for example, to the opening of a factory to meet demand in a new market
region.
14.
Store the forecasts made at different times for a period.
15.
Update the actual data.
16.
Verify the accuracy of the forecast; for example, by comparing it with the
constrained forecast from SNP, with actual data and with other demand planning
versions that you did not release to SNP.
17.
Revise the master data to reflect the addition of new products, customers, and
so on.
18.
Refine the forecast models in the light of knowledge gained from forecast
accuracy checks. Add new models for new products and product lines.
Demand Planning
APO
BW
APO
BW
APO DP
SNP
Timeseries
Order
liveCache
liveCache
Infocube
OLTP
R/3
R/3
Plant
Plant
Material
Material
APO
APO
CIF-interface
Location
Location
Product
Product
Important Reports
/SAPAPO/TS_LCM_CONS_CHECK
Consistency Check for Existing Time Series Network
/SAPAPO/TS_LCM_PLOB_DELTA_SYNC
Adjust time series objects
/SAPAPO/TS_PSTRU_GEN
Regenerate dynamic programs
/SAPAPO/TS_PSTRU_TOOL
Toolbox for Planning Object Structures
/SAPAPO/TS_PAREA_EXTR_MGM
Extractor checker
/SAPAPO/OM_REORG_DAILY
Periodic (Daily) Reorganization of COM Objects in liveCache
Important Tables
Planning Area
Forecast
/SAPAPO/TSAREAKO
/SAPAPO/TSPAPLOB
/SAPAPO/SDPTSTR
POS (Planning
Object Structure)
/SAPAPO/DP440G
/SAPAPO/TSPLBAKT
/SAPAPO/TSAKTMSG
/SAPAPO/DP440P
/SAPAPO/TSPLOBPO
Macros
/BIC/F<POS name>
/SAPAPO/PBMADVM
/SAPAPO/TSPAPLO
/SAPAPO/ADMAKRO
Advanced Macros
/SAPAPO/FUN_STEP
Macro steps
/SAPAPO/TSPLOBTE
/SAPAPO/FUN_RES
RSDDIMEIOBJ
Planning Book
/SAPAPO/PBMVW
/SAPAPO/SDPTBPOS
/SAPAPO/PBMLKEY
Selection Variants
/SAPAPO/TS_SELKO
Batch Job
/SAPAPO/TSPLBAKT
/SAPAPO/TSPLB
Alerts
/SAPAPO/AM_ALERT
Release
/SAPAPO/TSUPREL
Important Programs/Functions
Reading / Writing Data
Function /SAPAPO/TS_DM_GET
Function /SAPAPO/TS_DM_SET
Reads Data according to the key figure attributes from InfoCube or liveCache (Timeseries or orders).
Interface
IS_READ_OPTIONS
IT_SELECTION
IT_GROUP_BY
IT_KEYFIGURES
CT_LINES
CT_COLS
ET_TAB
/SAPAPO/PROGNOSE
Forecasting