SAP is the best in maintaining and
nurturing the SAP Eco-system and makes sure everyone part of the SAP
eco-system get benefited (Customers, SAP partners, Employees, SAP itself). SAP
manages to come up with a win-win situation and makes its best to hold up its
SAP employee value. SAP ranks first as the enterprise application vendor
(Second is Oracle) and so the market is huge, and so
the opportunities are huge. Business Objects is one of the biggest BI
companies and it has been acquired by SAP few years back. SAP BI & SAP
Business Objects BI solutions are tightly integrated with all of its SAP
products & its pre-delivered BI content makes it impossible for other BI
products to sell its products and solutions to a SAP customer, which all together
creates a huge market for SAP consultants.
SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) Online Training
SAP SCM Online Training Course
SAP SCM (Supply Chain Management) Online Training Course
Unit 1: What do we mean by Supply Chain Management?
- Logistics through the ages.
- Different views on the supply chain.
- What is new within about Supply Chain.
- Defining the position of Supply Chain Management.
- Supply Chain Management: A vision.
- Elements of Supply Chain Management.
- Objectives and Opportunities.
- Objectives.
- Opportunities.
- IT-Based Approaches.
- Principles of ERP.
- Supply Chain Planning Tools.
- Customer Relationship Management.
- System architectures.
- Internet Basics.
- Applications.
- SCM Tools offered by SAP.
- Sales Force Automation (SFA).
- Business Information Warehouse (BW).
- Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO).
- APO in Business Processes.
- Demand planning.
- Supply Network Planning and PP-DS.
- Supply Chain Cockpit.
- Industries and Supply Chain Management.
- Perspectives.
- Methodical Approaches.
- Procedures.
- Performance Measurement.
- Benchmarking.
- Specific Industries.
- Hi-Tech and Electronics.
- Automotive Industry.
- Consumer Goods and Commerce.
- Logistics Services.
- SCM – a Case History of Success.
SCM Demand Management Effectiveness
In order to effectively design and implement APO Demand Planning any organization, it is important have a clear working framework. Critical aspect to consider is that Demand Management is an approximation; it is never a pure science. There is quite a difference between forecasting and Demand Planning, forecasting is a mathematical action while Demand Planning is a process where forecasting if part of the process.
The objective of this post is provide food for thought regarding the Demand Management process.
The key objective is to achieve an efficient Demand Management system that is user friendly ( different user profiles), has the required technical enablers (forecast procedure) and is able to achieve primary objective of maximizing throughput of the organization taking into consideration business complexities:
- Supply chain pattern; make to order, make to stock, export markets, VMI, toll manufacturing, late pack customization ect..
- Product life cycle
- Proliferation of products
- Different roles in the business impacting Demand Planning
SAP APO Demand Planning is one of the most un-structured solution in SAP; un-structured implies that the whole Demand Planning solution has to be built with the provided technical framework. It is purposely un-structured in that it has to be built to satisfy business requirements with respect to data views, data aggregation and data manipulation.
In order to effectively manage Demand Planning it is critical to understand the following:
- The technical framework provided by SAP DP
- Key elements in the technical framework provided by SAP DP
- The Demand Planning Process
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