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