Listed here are practical and helpful SAP APO Stuff to assist those supporting the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer Modules.  If you have any SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer questions, please feel free to raise it in the SAP APO Forum.

What is APO in SAP?
SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer is a component of the mySAP Supply Chain Management solution that you use for planning and optimizing supply chain processes at a strategic, tactical, and operational planning level.

- With APO - Simultaneous Material & Capacity Planning is possible, as against R/3 PP
- APO Planning is capable of taking all the constraints into consideration with Planning for Capacities/Scheduling
- APO Resource (workcenter in R/3) does a Capacity availability check before scheduling an activity, if capacity is not available, it finds the immediate next available slot & schedules the activity there. This is not possible with R/3.

• Introduction To SAP APO
• Overview Of Integration Between SAP And APO

• How can we do data scrubbing?
• Safety stock calculation
• R/3 & APO-DP integration
• Key figure, storing data at higher levels
• Part number strategy
• PP/DS Heuristic Question
• Why Supply Chain Model required?
• PPM Transfer
• Data load into APO-DP planning book from Excel
• The Concept Of Aggregates In APO
• APO Forecast Transfer To ECC 6
• What Are The Process Steps in SNP
• APO Newly Designed Process In Comparison With R/3

• Restrict GATP Check At Storage Location
• Meaning Definition Of GATP

• GATP T-codes Useful For APO Consultant
• APO Basis Transaction Code
• Useful List Of APO Transaction Codes
• Demand Planning And Forecast Consumption APO Transaction Codes
• Sales And Transportation Planning

• APO Interview Questions Answers

• Duties Of Integration Consultant In SAP APO

• APO Demand Planning Architecture
• No Planner Transferred to APO
• Creation of Planning Area in APO
• CTM Planned Orders Consolidation
• PP/DS Planned Order From APO To ECC
• Releasing the Demand Plan to SNP
• SNP, Demand, Transportation And Production Planner
• Planning Possibilities in SNP

• Deletion of CVCs Records
• Deletion of Alerts in SAP APO

The SAP APO Knowledge Book - Supply and Demand Planning

... more SAP APO Books

Schedule Job

• To Trigger The Start of an APO Job

• How To Find Relevant APO Tables

• SAP APO Frequently Asked Questions
• APO Interview Questions and Answers

• Changes To Product Master SCM
• Deleting Material Master in APO
• How The Data is Stored in Live Cache
• Holiday Factory Calendar Time Stream For Planning APO
• Scenario on How The Data Flows in APO

• Standard Reports in APO

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