SCM220/225 - Demand Planning/ Advanced Demand Planning

Course Version: 081

Duration: 5 days Audience

This course is intended for project team members and key users (persons from special departments) who are responsible for creating demand plans based on aggregated historical data, for implementing Demand Planning with SAP SCM based on the component SAP APO 5.1. The course is also suitable for customers who are still using an earlier version of SAP APO.

Prerequisites: Essential

SCM200 Advanced Planning Overview (SCM) Planning (SAP SCM) SCM220 Demand Planning

Recommended

BW310 BI - Enterprise Data Warehousing BW350 BI - Data Acquisition

Goals

You will gain an in-depth understanding of how demand plans with SAP APO are created based on historical data. You will learn how to create demand plans using various forecasting techniques and how to apply marketing and sales intelligence to the demand plan. You can use the Demand Planning results as a basis for Supply Network Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling. You will gain an in-depth understanding of several advanced topics in demand planning with SAP APO are.

Course Based on Software Release

SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 SAP SCM 5.1

Content

Overview of demand planning concepts and data structures Integrating SAP R/3 information structures with SAP APO InfoCubes (transferring aggregated historical data to SAP APO) Defining the planning levels for creating aggregated plans Generating master data (characteristics combinations and proportional factors) Configuring Demand Planning using planning areas, Planning Object Structures, planning books and macros Generating your own alerts using macros Collaborative Demand Planning (customer and manufacturer exchange data over the Internet) Demand planning using statistical forecasting, causal analyses, and composite forecasting Mass processing of planning activities in the background Releasing the Demand Planning results as planned independent requirements to Supply Network Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling. Using Navigational attributes in Demand Planning Extracting Data from the Planning Area Advanced Disaggregation methods Release from SNP to DP

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Advanced Planning area Configuration Locking Data Horizons Methods for releasing Demand to SNP Uploading Data during Interactive Planning Maintenance of Live Planning Area