Supply Chain Management with APO Structures, Modelling Approaches an
The Advanced Planner and Optimiser (APO) is the software from SAP dedicated to supply chain management. This book provides an overview about the supported SCM processes and explains how to implement APO in a company. It is written from a long years' exper
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Jörg Thomas Dickersbach
Supply Chain Management with APO Structures, Modelling Approaches and Implementation of mySAP SCM 4.1
Second Edition with 389 Figures and 65 Tables
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Dr. Jörg Thomas Dickersbach E-mail: [email protected]
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ISBN-10 3-540-26029-3 2nd ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-26029-5 2nd ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 3-540-02931-1 1st ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2006 Printed in Germany The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: Erich Kirchner Production: Helmut Petri Printing: Strauss Offsetdruck SPIN 11429395
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Preface
This book rather addresses the question ‘how to implement APO’ than ‘why to implement APO’ and is written for people who are involved in APO implementations. It is based on the APO release mySAP SCM 4.1. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with the necessary background to start with first own steps in the system in the right direction by explaining the architecture and some basic structures of APO and introducing common modelling approaches. Although there are already several books published about APO and there is a detailed documentation of the functions in the system, we have experienced a distinct need for explanations regarding the structure and the interaction of systems, modules and entities. The understanding of the possibilities and necessities on entity level is the basis for the modelling and the implementation of the business processes. This books mentions additionally many issues which have a great relevance in implementations, but are not mentioned in the literature. In our experience with APO projects we noticed an ever greater need (which remains more often than not unaware for much too long) to clarify the implications of the SCM approach for the implementation projects. Since SCM projects with APO differ significantly from R/3 projects, there are some typical traps in which even experienced R/3 project managers are apt to fall which cause severe pr
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