Duration:
2 Hours/day – 1 Hour Theory, 1 Hour Practical
4 Hours/day – 2 Hours Theory, 2 hours Practical
Course Content:
DEMAND PLANNING
- Introductions, APO Overview
 - Overview of Demand Planning Concept
 - Data mart, info-cubes & Demand Planning
 - Planning area and Planning Books
 - Macros & Notes
 - Interactive Planning
 - Statistical toolbox, Promotions and Life Cycle Planning
 - Mass Processing and Release of Plans
 - Exception Processing and Alert Generation
 
SUPPLY NETWORK PLANNING / (CIF)
- Overview of Supply Planning Concept
 - Supply Planning, Interactive Supply Planning, Integration with other SCM components
 - Planning Methods: Heuristics, Optimization & CTM
 - Deployment
 - Transport Load Builder
 - Releasing Supply Plans to DP, PPDS, ECC
 - CIF Core Interface : Introduction to Architecture of Integration
 - Master Data, Integration to R/3
 - Planning in ECC – APO with Integration Model Generation
 - Initial & Change Transfers, Background Jobs
 - Monitoring & Handling CIF Errors
 - Comparison & Reconciliation
 
Global Available-to-Promise
- Overview of Availability Management in ECC-APO
 - Principles and configuration of Availability Check
 - Check using Product Allocations
 - Advanced Methods
 - Rule based Check
 - Multi-Level ATP
 - Explanation & Simulation Feature
 - Global ATP/OPTP interface
 
PRODUCTION PLANNING/DETAILED SCHEDULING
- Overview of PPDS, Prerequisites, Prod. Planning with ECC
 - Master Data & Transaction data Integration with ECC, SNP, DP, GATP
 - Demand Management, Requirements & Sales Orders in PPDS
 - Production Planning Strategies (Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock)
 - Planning Heuristics
 - Capacity Requirements, Capacity Planning
 - Optimizer
 - Exception Processing, Alert Generation
 - Free Discussions, Questions
 - Consulting Practice Planning
 - Further Reference Sources
 - Conclusion
 
