SAP APO Tips and SAP Advanced Planner/Optimizer Discussion Forum

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

SAP APO Contents
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

Interview Questions
APO Interview Questions Answers

Planning
No Planner Transferred to APO
Creation of Planning Area in APO

Reference Books for SAP APO
SAP APO Interview Questions, Answers, and 
Explanations: SAP APO Certification Review

The SAP APO Knowledge Book - Supply and Demand Planning

more SAP APO Books

Tables
How To Find Relevant APO Tables

FAQ
SAP APO Frequently Asked Questions

Master Data
Changes To Product Master SCM
Deleting Material Master in APO

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