This supply chain planning tool is useful for organizations to manage and organize their supply chain efficiently. SAP APO helps the companies to plan and implement the supply chain process. The SAP APO module is designed to attain high consistency in business procedures, right through from order generation to production planning and enlightening customer service through cost-effective methodology.
Another important key function of SAP APO tool is the SCC (Supply Chain Cockpit), it provides the technical users with a graphical instrument panel for monitoring and controlling the supply chain. The companies make best use of SCC like demand planners, strategic planners and production planners.

Components of SAP APO

The major components used by SAP APO alias supply chain management tool for supply chain purpose are:
·       Demand Planning – ideally used to generate future forecast customers demand and analyse the market on the arrival of the product.
·       Supply Network Planning – responsible to form cost-effective and productive plan for manufacturing, order generation, distribution, production, replenishment and delivery. The SNP integrates all the required information together to make planning and decision making using the single consistent model.
·       Production planning and Detailed Scheduling – helps to analyse the time and resources needed for production.
·       Global Availability – ensures the availability and delivery of the products are on time.
·       Transportation planning and vehicle scheduling – responsible to form a plan for short transportation routes.

Why to choose SAP APO?

·       Increase revenue
·       Improvise profit scale
·       Reduce manufacturing costs
·       Improve money management
·       Improve inventory management

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This SAP APO training provided by Uplatz is one of the best APO certification courses with videos providing in-depth coverage of all topics of SAP APO. The SAP APO video course aims to provide you knowledge of the APO module, it's configurations and features, and it's use in the industry with practical examples and scenarios. This SAP APO training will also help you prepare for the SAP APO certification exam as well as to help you apply for SAP APO consultant jobs.

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Course Objective

The main intent of the SAP APO certification course is to introduce the SAP suite. The SAP APO certification course projects an overview of SAP APO, demand planning, planning section. The SAP APO consultants able to gain wide knowledge on supply planning, planning in ECC.  The SAP APO certified consultants will be able to execute the SAP APO course content into real-time project.

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Target Audience

·       SAP Functional Consultants
·       SAP Technical Consultants
·       SAP SCM Consultants
·       Business Consultants
·       SAP Consultants who want to expand their skills
·       Anyone aspiring for a career in SAP

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Demand Planning

1. APO – BI set-up & Configuration

• Create Info-area
• Create Characteristic Catalogue
• Create Key Figure Catalogue
• Create Characteristics and Key Figure as Info Object
• Create Info-cube
• Create DTP

2. APO Set-up & Configuration

• Create MPOS
• Create Planning Area
• Create time bucket and storage bucket profile
• Create Planning Book
• Create Planning views
• Create selection IDs

3. APO Demand planning Process & Execution

• Load Data in Characteristic Attributes
• Load data in Info-cube
• Create CVC
• Load Data in Planning book
• Create forecast profiles
• Assign Forecast Profiles
• Statistical forecasting & various methods
• Lifecycle Planning
• Promotion Planning
• Alerts monitoring
• Create Macros and assign to the planning book
• Data realignment
• Sales history realignment
• Process Chain

Supply Network planning

1. ECC Set-Up & Configuration

• Set-Up material is ECC
• Create Work center (optional)
• Set-up BOM (optional)
• Set-up routing (optional)
• Set-up production version

2. CIF Configuration & Set-up

• CIF Configuration
• IMOD Creation
• IMOD execution
• CIF / Queue monitoring

3. APO-BI – SNP set-up & Configuration

• Create Info-area
• Create key Figure Catalogue
• Key figures as info-object

4. APO-SNP master data Set-up

• Create MPOS
• Create Planning Area
• Create time bucket and storage bucket profile
• Create Planning Book
• Create Planning views
• Create selection IDs

5. Supply network planning & Execution

• Supply Net-work planning interactively
• Transportation Lane
• Demand Planning to SNP release
• SNP Heuristic
• SNP Optimizer (optional)
• SNP Distribution forecast review
• Source of supply automatic assignment
• Forecast consumption
• Alternate source of supply determination
• Distribution forecast realignment

6. Deployment Planning

• Deployment planning
• Deployment Run
• Publish in ECC through CIF
• Goods receipts in ECC
• Deployment Optimization

7. Transportation Load Builder

• TLB set-up
• TLB profiles
• TLB run
• Mode of transport
• TLB run
• Publish to ECC