SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization
Balance supply and demand across your global supply chain
Enhance supply chain management (SCM) with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO).
Key Benefits
Improve supply and demand planning for both internal and external supply chains
Tightly integrate with SAP ERP to access sales, material, and other data
Increase forecast accuracy and minimize inventory buffers
Align mid- to long-term demand plans with your overall supply capacity
Create optimized production plans for all of your factories
Provide reliable sales order confirmation dates
Key Capabilities
Demand planning (DP)
- Comprehensive demand forecasting tool-set
- Highly configurable planning books with macro functionality
- Lifecycle, promotion, and collaborative demand planning
Supply network planning (SNP)
- Integrate purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation
- Product flow planning along the entire supply chain, with consideration for constraints and penalties
- Planning for different levels of detail, including aggregated planning
- Choice of heuristic-, rule-, or optimization-based algorithm
- Advanced safety stock planning algorithms
Production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS)
- Multi-level production planning
- Capable-to-promise
- Choice of existing or custom heuristics
- Support for lot quantity calculations and sourcing
- Support for: make-to-stock, make-to-order, make-to-order with order BOM, engineer-to-order, project manufacturing, and flow manufacturing
- Order pegging
Global available-to-promise
- Seamless integration with other SAP applications/components
- Global availability checks on defined documents within a defined scope
- Rules-based ATP using product or location substitution strategies
- Product allocation for controlling commitments to key customers
- Backorder processing
- Multi-level ATP for triggering BOM explosion and performing component checks
- Capable to promise (CTP) - call production planning (PP/DS)
Build a business case
Now is the right time for SAP APO on SAP HANA
Given today’s market challenges, learn how we can we ensure supply chain stability and how do we optimize our supply chains to ultimately remain competitive.
The "How To" Guide for SAP APO on SAP HANA
Learn about the technical implications and benefits of the transition to SAP APO on SAP HANA.
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Technical Information
Plan your installation
Refer to Master Guide: SAP APO 7.0, EHP 4* for important information about installation and upgrade planning.
System requirements
For more information about system and software requirements, please refer to the SAP Quick Sizer which lists supported devices, hardware, operating systems, apps, and browsers.
Download the software
To download the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization software installation package, visit the SAP Support Portal*. Click S in the A to Z index > Search for SAP SCM > select the relevant package.
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