SAP Standard Application Benchmarks

SAP Standard Application Benchmarks help customers and partners find the appropriate hardware configuration for their IT solutions. Working in concert, SAP and our hardware partners developed the SAP Standard Application Benchmarks to test the hardware and database performance of SAP applications and components.

Overview

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Sizing

Performance

SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)

Demand Planning (DP)
Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS)
Supply Network Planning (SNP)

Demand Planning (DP)

The Demand Planning Benchmark is one of three benchmarks in the SAP APO Benchmark suite. Demand planning enables supply chain partners to forecast and plan demand in consideration of historical demand data, causal factors, marketing events, market intelligence, and sales objectives. Results from the planning process can be automatically fed to other nodes of the supply chain.

Benchmark Description

In the benchmark, we use mass processing, which allows you to create demand forecasts for large numbers of products, while optimizing system resources. All mass processing jobs run concurrently in the background.

For the Demand Planning Benchmark, we assume that each of 2,000 customers buys 500 products, resulting in 1 million characteristic combinations (2,000 customers times 500 products). As demand planning considers the last two years to plan for the next two years, the total number of time buckets (weeks) is 208 (4 times 52). Therefore, the total number of data records considered is 208 million. The number of automatically aggregated characteristic combinations (combinations of products and distribution centers) is 100,000. (All products are available in each distribution center.) The results of the benchmark are demand figures that result in actual demand.

DP Application, Two-Tier Internet Configuration

Date of Certification (mm/dd/yyyy)	Technology Partner	No. of Planned Characteristic Combinations at AggregatedLevel Per Hour (*)	No. of Updated Characteristic Combinations at Detailed Level Per Hour	Operating System - Release	RDBMS Release	APO Release	liveCache	Central Server	Central server memory (MB)	Certification Number
10/22/2003	Unisys	586,319	5,863,190	Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	SQL Server 2000	3.1	7.4.2	Unisys ES7000 Model 400, 16-way SMP; Intel Itanium 2; 1,5 GHz, 32 KB L1 cache, 256 KB L2 cache, 6 MB L3 cache	65,536	2003053
09/30/2002	HP	157,555	1,575,550	Windows AS LE 1.2	SQL Server 2000	3.0 A	7.4.2	hp server rx5670, 4 processors SMP, Itanium 2, 1GHz, 3MB L3 Cache	32,768	2002051
08/27/2002	IBM	474,162	4,741,620	AIX 5.1	Oracle 9i	3.1 A	7.4.1.18	IBM eServer pSeries 690, 16-way, POWER4 1.3 GHz, 11.2 MB L2 Cache, 256MB L3 cache	131,072	2002044
05/29/2002	HP	252,811	2,528,110	HP-UX 11i	SAP DB 7.3.0.20	3.0 A	7.2.5.18	HP RP8400, 16 processors SMP, PA-RISC 8700 750 MHz, 1.5 MB L2 cache	65,536	2002026
05/29/2002	HP	136,982	1,369,820	Tru64Unix 5.1.A	Oracle 9i	3.0 A	7.2.5.7	HP Alphaserver ES45, 4 processors SMP, Alpha 21264C EV6.8CB, 1.250 GHz, 16 MB L2 cache	32,768	2002025
12/21/2001	Compaq	110,489	1,104,890	Tru64Unix 5.1.A	Oracle 8.1.6	3.0 A	7.2.5.7	Compaq Alphaserver ES45, 4 processors SMP, Alpha 21264 EV68, 1 GHz, 8 MB L2 cache	32,768	2001050
12/05/2001	Bull	129,258	1,292,580	AIX 4.3.3	DB2/EEE 7.1	3.0 A	7.2.5.7	Bull Escala PL800R, 8-processors SMP, RS64 IV 750 MHz, 8 MB L2 cache	32,768	2001048
10/23/2001	IBM	129,871	1,298,710	AIX 4.3.3	DB2/EEE 7.1	3.0 A	7.2.5.7	IBM eServer pSeries 660 Model 6M1, 8-processors SMP, RS64 IV 750 MHz, 8 MB L2 cache	32,768	2001041
09/05/2001	IBM	79,611	796,110	AIX 4.3.3	DB2/EEE 7.1	3.0 A	7.2.5.1	IBM eServer pSeries 660 Model 6M1, 8-processors SMP, RS64 IV 750 MHz, 8 MB L2 cache	32,768	2001032
07/23/2001	IBM	53,199	531,990	AIX 4.3.3	DB2/EEE 6.1	3.0 A	7.2.5.1	IBM RS/6000 Enterprise Server Model M80, 8-processors SMP, RS64 III 500 MHz, 4 MB L2 cache	32,768	2001025

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DP Application, Three-Tier Internet Configuration

Date of Certification (mm/dd/yyyy)	Technology Partner	No. of Planned Characteristic Combinations at Aggregated Level Per Hour (*)	No. of Updated Characteristic Combinations at Detailed Level Per Hour	Operating System - Release	RDBMS Release	APO Release	Database / Application Server	Database / Application Server Memory (MB)	liveCache	Number & Type of liveCache Servers	Certification Number
09/12/2003	HP	256,458	2,564,580	Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	SQL Server 2000	3.1	hp server rx5670, 4-way SMP; Intel Itanium 2; 1 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache	49,152	7.4.2	1 x hp server rx5670, 4-way SMP; Intel Itanium 2; 1 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache	2003044

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Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS)

The Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) Benchmark is one of three benchmarks in the SAP APO Benchmark suite. The component Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) enables companies to plan and optimize multi-site production, while simultaneously taking into account product and capacity availability.

Benchmark Description

Based on heuristics, a method of problem-solving that applies rules determined by experience or intuition, the Production Planning Benchmark solves specific planning tasks for selected objects, depending on the focus of planning – for example, products, operations, resources, or line networks – using a particular planning procedure algorithm.

This benchmark creates customer demands in each production plant and uses the production planning run to fulfill these demands. The benchmark covers two layers:

Plants that produce materials
Suppliers to the plants

For example, our supply network contains 20 suppliers, 10 plants, 10 distribution centers, and 250 transportation lanes. We assume 93 raw products and 10,000 finished products. In total, there are 120,093 location products. Each plant manufactures 2,000 finished products. At each DC, all 10,000 products are available.

PP/DS Application, Two-Tier Internet Configuration

Date of Certification (mm/dd/yyyy)	Technology Partner	Number of Orders per hour (*)	Operating System - Release	RDBMS Release	APO Release	liveCache	Central Server	Central Server Memory (MB)	Certification Number
05/29/2002	HP	336,510	Tru64Unix 5.1.A	Oracle 9i	3.0 A	7.2.5.16	HP Alphaserver ES45, 4 processors SMP, Alpha 21264 EV68CB, 1 GHz, 8 MB L2 cache	32,768	2002027

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Supply Network Planning (SNP)

The Supply Network Planning (SNP) Benchmark is one of three benchmarks in the SAP APO Benchmark suite.

SAP APO enables organizations to create a very close match between supply and demand by integrating purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation into one consistent model. By modeling the entire supply network and related constraints, SAP APO is able to synchronize activities and plan material flow throughout the entire supply chain. The results are feasible plans for purchasing, manufacturing, inventory, and transportation.

SAP APO also includes functionality to enable organizations to dynamically determine how and when inventory should be distributed. The system draws on the data universally available in liveCache to optimize deployment plans based on available algorithms, as well as user rules and policies. In the benchmark, we use mass processing, which allows you to run the heuristic planning for large numbers of product-location combinations, with mass processing jobs running concurrently in the background.

Benchmark Description

This benchmark covers the demand of the distribution centers (DC) that has been created by the demand planning run. The benchmark covers three layers:

The DCs that have the demand
Plants that produce the materials needed
Suppliers to the plants

SNP Application, Two-Tier Internet Configuration

Date of Certification (mm/dd/yyyy)	Technology Partner	Orders per Hour (*)	Operating System - Release	RDBMS Release	APO Release	liveCache	Central Server	Central Server Memory (MB)	Certification Number
09/19/2003	IBM	2,979,951	AIX 5.2	DB2 UDB 8.1	3.0	7.4.2.20	IBM eServer pSeries Model p690, 16-way SMP, POWER4, 1.3 GHz, 11.2 MB (8 CPU) L2 cache, 256 MB (8 CPU) L3 cache	32,768	2003046
09/13/2002	HP	2,020,349	HP-Ux 11i	SAP DB 7.3	3.0 A	7.2.5.18	HP RP8400, 16-way, PA RISC 8700, 750 MHz, 1.5 MB L2 cache	65,536	2002047

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