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APO 7.0 interactive planning graphics

Wesleyestment — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:23:14 +0000

Hi there.

I am working on the new SAP APO version 7.0 and am disappointed with the default setting of the new graph that is generated when in the planning book I click on the display graphic/table button. The graph that is displayed shows all the years and even months of the forecast. It also tries to display a line for each field on the same graph. Does anyone know how I can specify the frequenct of data nodes (for example if I want to display the value of a forcast every three months and not every month) in the graphic tool and also how I select which fields for which I want a trendline to be displayed on the graph?

Any advice or even documentation on the topic will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Wesley.

how to extract data from APO to BW (Not APO’s)

BwConsultant — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:06:27 +0000

Hi,all.
The APO system has many datasource,I have activated all the datasource with TCODE RSA5.
I want to extract APO data to BW(Not APO’s),where the APO data come from for BW extract.APO BW? SAP transparent table of APO? APO liveCache?
PLZ help me,thank you very much.

Incorrect Capacity Consumption in SAP

Stealth007 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:02:21 +0000

As a first timer on this site I am hoping someone can help with a problem I have been trying to work out now for several days.

I have started using the SNP Hueristic to generate the Supply Plan in order to determine mid range capacity loadings. When I run the Heuristic I get Planned Orders generated as I would expect to satisfy the demand. However when I examine the capacity consumed by these planned orders in the Planning Book they are over consuming the capacity.

We are using PDS’s downloaded from a SAP R/3 system via the CIF. The majority of the routes in R/3 have a base quantity of 10 units. The Planned Orders generated in the Heuristic seem to ignore the base quantity when calculating the capacity consumption. That is they generate 10 times the consumption that should occur.

Does anyone know what may be the cause of this problem.

SAP APO – Notes fields

Jimaptar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:25:20 +0000

can you add notes to orders in apo?

Problems with the flow of transactional data from R/3 to APO

SearchSAPAsktheExpert — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:58:21 +0000

There is a problem in our development server. Suddenly, a flow of transactional data from SAP R/3 to APO is stopped. What could we be missing here? Can you suggest what else we should check?

SAP STO’s and End customer batch requirements

Cheryl1802 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:00:56 +0000

Here is our scenario:
End Customer in Germany wants 100 “red” widgets. Widgets are warehoused in Malaysia in all colors.
Shipment must pass through consolidation location in Amsterdam.
Question: Can we pass the requirement for 100 “red” widgets to the STO to move the product from Malaysia to Amsterdam?
Can the warehouse in Malaysia see the end customer sales order information (ship to, address, ect…. )for the STO that they are processing?

ECC 6.0 product and location substitution

Hsmoore — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:17:39 +0000

Has any configured product and location substitution in ECC 6 environment? We are hitting an error in APO ATP094 error where it tells us that “No Substitution for item /000010 with “rules immediately”". Need to understand what could be missing in configuration for that error

APO in a variable input environment?

Kelly Goldsworthy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:26:22 +0000

I am currently working on a project that is investigating possible tools/solutions to solve our production planning problem. I work for a fish processing company that produceds hundreds of SKU’s on a regular basis. The raw material supply is unpredictable and variable, and we have the same demand issues as any other consumer goods industry. On a daily basis we need to perform “production matching” to ensure that we are making the most profit, and that we are fully utilizing our fish carcasses. Is APO right for this space? Do you know of any fishing, or similar, companies using it at present?

SAP APO and BW

Sunitha bw — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:13:45 +0000

Hi Experts,
I am a IT project manager with little experience in SAP. I would like to know the dependecy between SAP APO and SAP BW modules. Is it mandatory to have SAP BW system to implement a new SAP APO? As SAP APO has already in-built with BW, why a separate SAP BW system.

Thanks in advance
Sunitha Richards

SAP -pp or SCM

SAPFAQ1 6017 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:23:09 +0000

I am in a decision making process of my industry scenario to map in SAP.

My scenario is as below
Sales region representatives input their requirement for 1 months in system as below
Input is
• region(in SAP it is route destination)
• Qty
• Material number
• Selling price
• Period

Once they enter the data system should collect all the data from each regional and run a statistical calculation taken fast history and generate a unconstrained sales plan/regional for 18 months.

It will be passed to a optimizer where in we will put the following constraints

• Capacity of production line with respect to that material grade
• Selling price (from input data)
• Minimum allocation qty per region/Grade
• Customer grading ABC, A is good C is worst
• Inventory available in all region and production plant for that grade
• Net back that material can fetch
• One of the important sub assembly/intermediate material – availability for future months
• Grade change over loss in USD.

With the above constraint system should generate a region plan giving details of which material (grade wise) and qty

Second output is the production plan telling which grade how much to produce and when

Is it possible to do the above in normal SAP PP or we need to go for SAP SCM?