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Dude, where’s my table? – The difficulties of accessing data in APO
APO doesn’t use standard tables.That is not true, of course, but is what a person from the ECC/R3 world may think when trying to extract information directly from tables in APO. APO can be very...
View ArticleIntegration Scenario for APO modules
Integration Scenario for APO modules SCM APO is a planning tool which is used to plan and optimize supply chain processes in different business processes such as Demand Planning (DP),...
View ArticleImprovements in Production Planning Heuristics Logs in SAP APO (Part- 1/3)
We display production planning Heuristics Logs in APO using the transaction /SAPAPO/RRPLOG1 transaction. Review and analysis of heuristics logs is an important activity which helps planners rectify...
View ArticleImprovements in Production Planning Heuristics Logs in SAP APO (Part- 2/3)
This continues after Part-1: Improvements in Production Planning Heuristics Logs in SAP APO (Part- 1/3) In Part-1 of this three part series, we discussed how we can make an improvement on the way...
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Display BOP runs with Sales Order selection
Hello GATP colleagues, In several occasions we are reported by an end-user that a specific Sales Orders confirmation changed, and wonder if that date or that quantity is actually right and where that...
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Improvements in Production Planning Heuristics Logs in SAP APO (Part- 3/3)
This continues afterImprovements in Production Planning Heuristics Logs in SAP APO (Part- 1/3)Improvements in Production Planning Heuristics Logs in SAP APO (Part- 2/3) In this series we see how to...
View ArticleDB Procedures in LC Vs AMDP concepts in HANA
I was looking at the DB procedure call APS_ORDER_GET_DATA in one of the gATP FMs /SAPAPO/OM_ORDER_GET_DATA to understand a bit more on the architecture. The above DB procedure simply fetches the data...
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About the importance of planning horizons...
SAP software provides excellent planning functions and capabilities. But before you can effectively use them one must define the planning horizons... some people, as I have seen often, do not...
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Explode PPM or PDS in APO
PPM (Production Process Model) and PDS (Production Data Structure) are both SAP APO relevant master data. In most of the situations we have either of these in APO unless due to specific business...
View Article(Proactive Notification) Using PPMs on a recent release / SP? Don't miss note...
In short: recently, a correction note was created to improve performance of PPM explosion when orders are created in PP/DS. Due to a side effect of this note, some errors may occur: Upon running the...
View ArticleECC's locked production version's effect on APO PDS - NEW NOTES
Hi All, It is expected that when an production version is locked in ECC, then its PDS is to be deleted in APO. But so far we have a note 854561 that provides a work around solution, by setting the...
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Create Custom Heuristics
SAP provides a lot of standard heuristics for planning under APO Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling module. But you have an option to create your own heuristics. In this blog post we shall...
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A Few Housekeeping Jobs (Part-1)
1. Live cache consistency check Here we create a process variant to do livecache consistency check; this variant can then be used in the background job. To Access the activity, use one of the following...
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sample code: filtering location-products with PP/DS Horizon = 0 from the...
In standard, when running a Product Heuristic like SAP_PP_002, shortages inside the PP/DS Horizon are planned even if the PP/DS Horizon is set to 0 days. I've come across a few customers who would...
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