SCM220: Demand Planning

mySAP Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Planning with APO

Course Description

Objectives:

Course participants gain a detailed understanding of how tasks lists are created in SAP SCM (APO) based on aggregated historical data. Participants learn how to generate task lists using different forecasting techniques and can include market information about promotions in the demand plan. The results of Demand Planning can be used as a basis for Supply Network Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.

Content:

Overview of the planning concepts and data structures
Transfer aggregated historical data to the internal APO BW system
Define the planning levels for creating aggregated plans
Generate master data (characteristics combinations and proportional factors)
Configure Demand Planning using planning areas, planning object structures, planning books and macros
Generate your own exception messages (alerts) using macros
Cooperative Demand Planning (exchanging data between the customer and manufacturer over the Internet)
Demand Planning with statistical forecasting, causal analysis and combined forecasts
Mass processing planning tasks in the background
Release the results of Demand Planning as a planned independent demand
for Supply Network Planning and Production Planning and Detai

Course Schedule

Online / Client site.