SAP APO (Advanced Planner Optimizer) Course Structure

SAP APO stands for Advanced Planner Optimizer, and is used to plan and execute companyâ??s supply chain process. It is also known as APS (Advance Planning and Scheduling) tool. 
SAP APO is a key component of SAP and forms a technical foundation for many SAP modules. The tool is designed to achieve high consistency in business processes, right through from order generation to production planning and improving customer service while reducing costs.  It is used for SCM (Supply Chain Management) in industries.

Another important function of SAP APO is the SCC (Supply Chain Cockpit), it provides users with a graphical instrument panel for controlling and managing the supply chain. Various department of a company uses SCC like demand planners, strategic planners and production planners.

What can SAP APO training provide you?

Training on SAP APO could eventually prove beneficial for the fresherâ??s as well as professionals to take their career to a new level altogether.

Demand Planning

1. APO â?? 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. CIF Configuration & Set-up

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

1. APO-BI â?? SNP set-up & Configuration

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

1. 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

1. 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

1. Deployment Planning

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

1. Transportation Load Builder

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

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