Enhance supply chain management (SCM) with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation (SAP APO).
Balance supply and demand across your global supply chain
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.
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
Key Capabilities
Learn how SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation can simplify the lives of business users and IT staff
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
- 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)
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).
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
Plan your implementation
Plan your installation
Refer to Master Guide: SAP APO 7.0, EHP 4* for important information about installation and upgrade planning.
Confirm that you have a license key
To request permanent license keys, you need authorisation under myProfile*. To extend your authorisation, please contact an SAP user administrator*.
Download the software
To download the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimisation 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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