You get complete coverage of the topics below:

SAP APO Overview and Function of Planning Application

 Concepts of Supply Chain Management                                

 List the Advantages of APO

 Summarize the functions of the planning applications in APO

 Integration and Technology (Live Cache,Integration with OLTP system

using CIF)

 Modeling and Evaluation in APO (Overview of Master Data

and Transaction data for
supply chain planning,Function of Model and Version)

 Overview of master data and Transaction data in APO

Internal SAP SCM  APO Business Warehouse

 Purpose of Internal Business warehouse and concept

of extraction of transactional data

 Role and Function of Data warehousing workbench and Components

 Structure of Characteristics and Key Figures

 Overview of data source and data extraction

 Process of configuring LIS for data structure

 Info source,Info packages and Info cube in detail

Set up Demand and Supply planning in SCM APO-Configuration of DP

and SNP

 Creating Planning Object Structure

 Planning levels of demand planning in POS

 Task of planning object structure,master data and characteristics values

combinations

 Creation of Characteristics values combinations

 Create planning area and Planning Book with data view

 Set aggregation and disaggregation for key figures

 create time series in live cache

 Key figures setting in planning area

 Describe aggregation and disaggregation methods

 Calculate proportional factors

 Planning Object structure

 Planning area

 Planning Book and Data view

 Macro and Alerts

Apply Demand Planning DP for forecasting

 Demand Integrative planning Table and additional features in DP

 Forecasting Process (Univariant Forecast,MLR,composite

,consensus planning)

 Generation of proportional factor in DP

 Life Cycle planning (Realignment,Life cycle planning and

Product interchangeability
 Advance Macros in DP

 Promotion Planning

 Mass Processing

 Process chain in DP

Integration between SAP APO and ECC systems using CIF

 Architecture of the integration of the system SAP ECC with the system
SAP SCM: logical systems, target systems, queued RFC, RFC-destinations,
business system group

 Generation of integration models for the core interface (selection of

master and transaction data which should be transferred)

 Activation of integration models (transfer of the selected data)

 Initial and change transfer of fundamental master data from the SAP
ECC (e.g. Plant, distribution center, material)

 Real-time transfer of transaction data (stocks, orders) from SAP ECC as

well as retransfer of transaction data like planning results from SAP SCM to
SAP ECC

 Reports for routine operation

 Monitoring and treatment of errors during the transmission (CIF cockpit,

SCM queue manager, qRFC monitor, application log, and so on)

Apply supply network planing (SNP) for cross location planning

 SNP Overview ,SNP Process flow.

 Master data and Transaction data in SNP

 Supply Network Planning Methods (Heuristic,optimizer and CTM)

 Supply Network Planning Heuristic (Heuristic Run,Capacity Check and
Leveling)

 SNP Heuristic scheduling

 Aggregated Planning

 Optimization in SNP (Supply planning with Optimizer,Optimizer

costs,profile used by optimizer)

 Product interchangeability

 Safety stock Planning in SNP

 Basic of Deployment and TLB

Capable to Match (CTM) in SCM

 Functionality of CTM

 CTM master data selection

 CTM planning process types

 System landscape required for CTM

 CTM demand and supply processing

 CTM planning algorithm

 Supply control with CTM

Set up Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling in SAP SCM

 Maintain Number ranges for orders

 Maintain Strategy Profiles

 Maintain Planning Procedures and Planning Groups

 Set up times

 Maintain PPDS Heuristic setting and Profiles

 Maintain work area

 Maintain Period board profile and Time profiles

 Set up management and alert monitor

 Set up propagation ranges

Apply Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling for planing of

orders

 Role of PPDS in SCM

 Master Data overview

 Demand Management (PIR and sales orders,MTS & MTO)

 Production planning (Prerequisite and Setting,Planning

Process,Heuristic for MRP  planning  and Firming)

 Steps in PP (Net requirement calculation and lot size calculation,Source

determination,PPM/PDS explosion,Set up times ,Pegging)

 Tools and Production planning (Product view,Product planing

table,Pegging overview,Days supply,Detailed scheduling board,Resource
planing table,PPDS optimizer and Alert monitor)

Set Up Global Available to Promise

 Maintain Global Setting for Available check

 Maintain Category,Check mode and Check instruction

 Maintain ATP group and check control

 Maintain Allocation object ,group and Procedure

 Sequence of product allocation procedure

 Maintain Rule strategy and sequence for rule-based available check

 Parallelizing backorder processing.