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SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation

Balance supply and demand across your global supply chain

Enhance supply chain management (SCM) with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation (SAP APO). 

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This solution offers integrated, best-in-class functionality for demand, supply, and production planning – as well as global available-to-promise (ATP). Maximise supply network efficiency, and take forecasting and demand management to the next level.

Key Benefits

To stay a step ahead of demand, you need a powerful platform that supports and integrates all of your supply chain planning activities.


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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 minimise inventory buffers

Align mid- to long-term demand plans with your overall supply capacity

Create optimised production plans for all of your factories

Provide reliable sales order confirmation dates

Product Capabilities

Learn how SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation can simplify the lives of business users and IT staff

Functional Capabilities

SAP APO is structured into four modules that can be used and licensed separately:

 

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 optimisation-based algorithm
  • Advanced safety stock planning algorithms

 

Production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS)

  • Multi-level production planning
  • Capable-to-promise (CTP)
  • 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 (gATP)

  • 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)
Technical Capabilities

Learn how SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation makes it easier for IT to integrate, extend, and deploy an advanced planning system:

 

Object-based and object-oriented programming
Get IT up and running quickly with the application's familiar object-based and ABAP-type programming.

 

Integration approach

Communicate with SAP ERP via build-in middleware CIF. Communicate with components in SAP SCM or 3rd-party systems via SAP Remote function calls, SAP ALE technology, and Web services.

 

Data model

The SAP APO architecture follows the classical separation of data access, presentation, and actual functional layers.

 

Business add-in
Add specific logic via open interfaces.

 

Data persistency
Store transactional data, such as orders and time series, within an object-oriented, in-memory liveCache.

Pricing and Packaging

The modular structure of SAP APO allows you to license and pay for only the modules you require at any given time. This product is deployed as a traditional, on-premise application with a license based on cost of goods sold (COGS).


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SAP APO offers the following modules, which can be licensed separately

  • SAP Demand Planning
  • SAP Global Available-to-Promise
  • SAP Extended Manufacturing
  • SAP Supply Network 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.


Product Extensions for SAP APO

Extend the functionality of SAP APO with innovative technologies from SAP.


Featured Blog Posts

Connect with SAP experts – and get the latest news and views on SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation implementations, upgrades, innovations, and best practices.

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Why Now is the Right Time for SAP APO on SAP HANA

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Jump-start your SAP solution implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.
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