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).
Integrated, best-in-class functionality for demand and supply
Production planning
Global available-to-promise (ATP).
Maximize supply network efficiency
Forecasting and demand management
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 features
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)
Integrated 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)
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