Discover SAP SCM

... Acknowledgments ... 21
... Preface ... 23
... ... Who Should Read This Book ... 23
... ... What You'll Discover ... 24
... ... Navigational Tools for This Book ... 25
... ... What's in This Book ... 26
1 ... SAP SCM Basics ... 31
... ... What Is SAP SCM ... 31
... ... SAP SCM Origins ... 32
... ... SAP's Approach to Supply Chain Management ... 33
... ... Optimization ... 34
... ... Which Companies Are Right for SAP SCM? ... 37
... ... Cross Application Components ... 38
... ... Product Location Master ... 38
... ... Planning Areas and Planning Object Structures ... 40
... ... Planning Object Structure ... 40
... ... Planning Versions ... 41
... ... Planning Book ... 41
... ... Conclusion ... 43
2 ... SAP SCM Applications ... 45
... ... SAP SCM Applications ... 48
... ... SAP SCM as a Visionary Application ... 50
... ... SAP SCM Application Interactions ... 51
... ... SAP ERP to SAP SCM ... 54
... ... Implementation Key Drivers ... 56
... ... Conclusion ... 57
3 ... SAP Demand Planning (DP) ... 59
... ... Demand Planning as SAP SCM's Most Popular Application ... 60
... ... Two Halves of Demand Planning ... 61
... ... Basic Functionality and Concepts of SAP DP ... 62
... ... Data Warehouse Workbench ... 64
... ... InfoCubes ... 69
... ... Forecasting ... 71
... ... Characteristic Value Combinations ... 73
... ... Realignment ... 73
... ... Promotion Forecasting ... 74
... ... Releasing the Plan ... 75
... ... SAP DP Release History ... 76
... ... Case Study ... 77
... ... Conclusion ... 78
4 ... Supply Network Planning (SNP) ... 79
... ... Basic Functionality and Concepts of SNP ... 81
... ... SNP Resources ... 88
... ... Common SNP Objects ... 89
... ... SNP Subcontracting ... 92
... ... SNP Product Location Tabs ... 93
... ... Safety Stock in SNP ... 94
... ... SNP Deployment ... 95
... ... SNP Release History ... 96
... ... Case Study ... 96
... ... Conclusion ... 97
5 ... Production Planning and

Shaun Snapp has been an SAP consultant since 1997 and has focused on SAP SCM since 2002. He has been published in SAPTips three times and maintains several SAP blogs. One of his blogs is one of the most popular in the area of SAP planning and SCM, and is primarily an online configuration database of SAP SCM. A second blog is devoted to service parts planning, which covers SAP SCM SPP, among other software such as MCA. My blogs URLs are listed below.http://sapplanning.wordpress.comhttp://spplan.wordpress.com