SAP APO, Reporting and MRP Update

2020 goes to 2025

So what has happened with APO?

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SAP APO

SAP HANA

SAP Supply Chain

InfoCenter

Usability (MS Excel for DP, Fiori, Renovation of User Interfaces)

• SAP Supply Chain Info Center enables real-time analytics of APO data

• Direct accesss of LifeCache date with easy navigation between SAP APO and SAP SCIC

• Renovation of Product View and other UIs

• Introduction of Fiori Applications for GATP

• MS Excel Add-In for APO Demand Planning

• SAP APO available on SAP HANA and HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)

• LifeCache is part of SAP HANA

• Performanceimprovements for many transactions and planning runs

Performance Analytics Usability

SIMPLER BUSINESS INTERACTIONS

Improved user experience and faster

interaction

New APO user experience

APO on HANA customers directly benefit from new available re-designed APO Interactive transactions.

Improved usability and user efficiency

Fresh, modern, unique visual identity that harmonizes look & feel for SAP Business Suite products

Enhanced built-in personalization features

Simplify the power users life! Planners Home Page

Collaboration on latest events and planning activities

Personalized Alert KPIs for quick overview

Context Sensitive Alerts

Micro charts showing Trend of KPIs/Series

Simplify the power users life! Side PanelsSee Supply Chain wide Inventory level

Selected Product Location is used for Context sensitive Information in Side Panel

Inventory breakdown by Storage Location

See right here additional,custom-specific Information

New Excel Client for Consensus based Demand Planning - Business UsersPurpose-built

APO toolbar

Enter data directlyto the APO Backend in Excel

Add additional rows/columns to make on-the-fly calculations in Excel

Use all kinds of Excel functionalitieslike charts, conditional formatting,..

Enter data in on- or offline mode

Supports multiple Sheets for different purposes

Try it – No Cost

SMARTER BUSINESS PROCESSES

Supply Chain Info Center

Decision support for planners based on near real-time information

Supply Chain Info Center

This new analytical application for operational reporting (on APO data) leverages the full potential of HANA.

Decision support based on near real time information (e.g. forecast accuracy, stock coverage, supply projection, capacity analytics)

Highly attractive UIs for operational reporting on APO data

Pre-defined dashboards for different use cases (analytical workflows) for SAP APO based planning scenarios

Virtual Data Model that allows customers to develop reports and analytical applications

Drill into details and figure out what brands, regions or items have bad forecast performance

Forecast Accuracy analytics supports the demand planner with indicators on the quality and reliability of the forecast on all possible levels

Look at the details and analyze patterns

Drill into details and figure out what product groups, regions or items have bad projected service or deviate from inventory targets

Supply analytics - Identify bottlenecks and constraints in your supply plan with Supply Projection, Stock coverage and Capacity analytics

Look at inventory projection based on future demand and supply

Analyze capacity load over timeat plant, capacity group or resource level

Capacity analytics allow capacity planners to see capacity load across the supply chain and get insight on consuming products

Look at consuming product groups, regions or items

Use Custom Specific KPIswithin same look and feel

Analyze custom Key Figuresfrom Planning Books

Create custom calculation views for specific KPIs

SAP Hana DB

SAP Data Model

Custom calculation Views

Ability to use and analyze custom key figures from the planning books within SC Info Center, and custom KPI calculations

A true mobile first approach for Analytics on your Tablet device

Analyze Supply Shortages

Planners can track short-term supply shortages, compare stock levels on different Locations and suggest stock transfers; while on the go!

Personalize your overview dashboard

FASTER BUSINESS PROCESSES

Making Supply Chain Planning faster and more responsive

Increase speed of information analysis, simulations in areas of forecasting and supply network planning

Accelerate reporting and processing on large volumes of supply chain planning data

Pre-defined dashboards for different use cases (analytical workflows) for SAP APO based planning scenarios

Faster and more responsive interactive and batch planning

Advanced Planning and Optimization, powered by HANA

Performance Improvement HighlightsPlanning Processes and Transactions

Up to 3 Times Faster

Initial Loading of Interactive Transactions

Demand Planning Book

Supply Network Planning Book

Alert Monitor

Up to 40% Faster

Back Order Processing

SNP Heuristic Run

Demand Planning Run

Up to 10 Times Faster

CIF Delta Report (requires APO on HANA and ERP on HANA)

Performance Improvement HighlightsReports and House Keeping Activities

Up to 2 times Faster

Deletion of outdated Customer and Purchase Orders

Alert Batch Processing

Up to 25% Faster

Consistency Check for Time Series Network

Loading Planning Area Version from BW

Most used planning processes, transactions and background processes will be further optimized and released via SAP notes and Support Packs (no upgrade required)

Potential core APO process steps that offer acceleration opportunities

Alert Management

Interactive Planning for DP, SNP, PP/DS

Interactive Back Order Processing

Background Planning in APO DP (forecasting), SNP (heuristics) and PP/DS (heuristics)

Mass processing in DP/SNP (e.g. macros, release jobs)

APO BW specific processes (data loading,...)

Consistency reports (DP, SNP, PP/DS, gATP), Housekeeping activities

APO Core Interface (CIF)

Calculation

Traditional

Calculation

SAP HANA

ApplicationLayer

DatabaseLayer

NW ABAP

SAP HANA

Proof Point: Step-by-Step process todayDemand Planning (APO-DP variant)

Typical process today

Issues:

Total elapsed time: Spans from more than 5 hours to several days

Multiple manual steps, several batch jobs, downloads/uploads

No Out-of-Box Analytics, Custom Built Reporting

Business impact: Lower forecast accuracy, promise date attainment, higher Inventory

BW ExtractLoad actual demand data from ERP/SAP BW to APO/BW

Process ChainTransfer data from Cube to Planning Area / Load Data into Planning Area

Process ChainConsistency Check for DP planning area(s)

SDP94Determining Consensus Demand (Macros)

MC62Generate DP master data (characteristic value combinations -CVCs)

Batch JobBatch Job

Batch Job

Batch Job

BW ExtractExtract data from Planning Area and load into BW Cube

Bex QueryAnalyze demand plan

Batch Job

Process ChainPerform Statistical Forecasting

Batch Job

SDP94Perform Interactive Planning

Interactive Transaction

How Process Changes with APO on HANA with SCICDemand Planning (APO-DP variant)

…with Suite on HANA - Cut your DP batch cycle by up to 40% of your current cycle

BW ExtractLoad actual demand data from ERP/SAP BW to APO/BW

Process ChainTransfer data from Cube to Planning Area / Load Data into Planning Area

Process ChainConsistency Check for DP planning area(s)

SDP94Determining Consensus Demand (Macros)

MC62Generate DP master data (characteristic value combinations -CVCs)

Batch JobBatch Job

Batch Job

Batch Job

BW ExtractExtract data from Planning Area and load into BW Cube

Batch Job

Process ChainPerform Statistical Forecasting

Batch Job

SDP94Perform Interactive Planning

Interactive Transaction

Additional Benefits:

• Out-of-Box Analytical Dashboards with flexibility define custom KPIs

• Delta Replications in less than a minute enabling near-real time analytics

• KPI/Alert/exception Driven process

• Mobile access / User friendly UIs

Batch Job

HANA ReplicationReplicate data to SC Info Center in Full Replication/Delta Mode

How Process Change with APO on HANA with SCICSupply Network Planning (APO-SNP variant)

Additional Benefits:

• Out-of-Box Analytical Dashboards with flexibility define custom KPIs

• Delta Replications in less than a minute enabling near-real time analytics

• KPI/Alert/exception Driven process

• Mobile access / User friendly UIs

…with Suite on HANA - Cut your SNP batch cycle by up to 40% of your current cycle

Core InterfaceTransfer master and transactional data from ERP

Process ChainDeletion of obsolete SD Orders

Process ChainConsistency check of planning area

Version CopyCopy planning version for simulation

Comparison/Reconciliation Report Comparison of transactional data between ERP and APO

Batch JobBatch Job

Batch Job

Interactive Transaction

Interactive PlanningPerform Interactive PlanningBatch Job

Process ChainExecute SNP time series calculations (e.g. macro, time phased safety stock)

Batch Job

Process ChainPerform low level code determination, heuristics and capacity leveling

Batch Job

Batch Job

Batch Job

BW ExtractExtract data from Planning Area and load into BW Cube

Batch Job

HANA ReplicationReplicate data to SC Info Center in Full Replication/Delta Mode

* Requires ERP on HANA, SCM on HANA

And PPDS?

Comprehensive Plan to Produce in ONE SystemPlanned

Sales Order Entry

MRP Run +Constrained

Planning

Interactive Planning

Release to Production

Production Execution

Monitor and Control

UI Harmonization CIF Simplification Master Data Harmonization AnalyticsHANA Platform incl. Live cache

PP/DS

ERP

SAP FIORI

Production Planner Production Supervisor Production Worker Production Planner

ERP

APO-PP/DSHANA incl. Live-Cache

HANA

CIF

SAP FIORI

Manufacturing planning & schedulingOptions Today and in the Future

SCM

Se

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r

Large & X-Large Installations

High Data Volume: two

NetWeaver Servers

APO with D/Q/P Landscape

ERP APOLive

Cache

Ad

d-o

n

LiveCacheAPO

ERP

Medium-Sized Installations

Simplified Landscape,

reduced TCO

Less DB/OS/Backup/Basis

Operations

Restrictions in the area of

iPPe, VC and planning with

batches (*)

Suit

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ERP

+AP

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on

HA

NA

HANA based Installations

Simplified Landscape,

reduced TCO

Simplified Application:

Integration, Data Model, UI,

Analytics

No restrictions of APO-PPDS

use case

ERPon

HANA

SCM 7.0 EhP3 APO Standard Deployment Model

APO

LiveCache

* Removal of restrictions planned for Q1 2015 SP

MRP on HANA

MRP CockpitMaterial Shortages

Material overview

providing compressed

real-time information

about material

supply/demand match

•Overview with KPIs and

alerts

•Variable display of

availability, demand or

supply, color coded

MRP CockpitStock Requirement List with solution proposals

Optimized MRP runNew and classic mode working together, no disruption of existing processes

MRP run with“MRP Dispatcher”

Automatic determination and selection of planning mode per material, dependent on functional requirements of the material regarding planning; can be overruled manually

The functionality of the new mode will be enhanced continuously – meaning that more and more materials can be planned in the new mode

Special functionality will remain in the classic mode

Existing customer enhancements will also be supported in the classic mode

Result: The implementation of this planning run will not lead to loss of functionality, it can be used immediately in a compatible way

Classic Mode(Abap+HANA)

New Mode(only HANA)

MRP Dispatcher

1

2

999

In-house Production

New Mode

In-house Production

Classic Mode

Ext. Produrement

New Mode

Syncpoint

Ext. Produrement

Classic Mode

Syncpoint

MRP Level

Syncpoint…

Optimized MRP RunContinuously increasing functionality

Usage

FunctionalityStep 1 2 3 … n

Q3 2013:Plan externally procured materials in HANA using demand-driven planning

Q1 2013:Optimization of reading material receipts and Requirements in classic transactions:

Q4 2014:Configurable Materials

Q4 2013:Plan manufactured, non-configurable materials in HANA; Reorder-point planning in HANA

Q3 2014:Delivery Schedule Lines

Later:Subcontracting, Discontinuation

Not supported, Capacity Planning in MRP on HANA, is supported by PP/DS in APO

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