Global Available-To-Promise with Sap: Functionality and Configuration: Discover the Power of Gatp with This Complete and Practical Reference

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-59229-385-8
Verlag: SAP PR

Buch, Englisch, 349 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 792 g

Reihe: SAP PRESS: englisch

Are you a supply chain professional or practitioner striving to find ways to keep your customers satisfied? If your answer is yes, then this is the book for you! Here, you’ll find practical knowledge, configuration steps, and useful tips and tricks to maximize the efficiency of your SAP system. Upon completion of this book, you will have a firm understanding of how global available-to-promise can streamline your company’s order fulfillment processes.

1. Technical Guidance
Maintain your global ATP system during implementation and after go-live.

2. Comprehensive Understanding
Discover how global ATP bridges the gap between order fulfillment and planning, streamlines your business processes, and enhances customer satisfaction.

3. Customize Your SAP System
Learn how to customize ATP processes to fit your business needs with rules-based ATP, product allocation, capable-to-promise, multilevel ATP checks, backorder processing, and more.

4. Integration with SAP Tools
Find the enhancement possibilities available for global ATP, as well as how it integrates with SAP CRM and service-oriented architecture.

5. Real-World Examples
See practical use cases throughout the text that illustrate how global available-to-promise can work for your business.

Highlights:

- Product and location substitution

- Product allocation

- Backorder processing

- Transportation shipment and scheduling methods

- Capable-to-promise and multi-level ATP

- Global ATP integration with other processes

- Master data in ECC and global ATP

- Core Interface integration

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verma, Pavan

Pradhan, Sandeep

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

. Preface. 15

1. Order-to-Cash Business Process. 19

. 1.1. Order-to-Cash Overview. 19

. 1.2. Supply Chain Operation Reference Model. 23

. 1.3. Key Performance Indicators for Order-to-Cash. 38

. 1.4. Available-to-Promise in Order-to-Cash. 39

. 1.5. Summary. 42

2. Introduction to Global Available-to-Promise. 43

. 2.1. Global Available-to-Promise Overview. 43

. 2.2. Global ATP Capabilities. 45

. 2.3. ATP in SAP ERP versus Global ATP. 47

. 2.4. Global ATP Basic Methods. 49

. 2.5. Global ATP Advanced Methods. 55

. 2.6. Global ATP Extended Functions. 62

. 2.7. Summary. 68

3. How SAP APO Global ATP Technology Works. 69

. 3.1. Global ATP Time Series. 69

. 3.2. Global ATP Technical Landscape. 71

. 3.3. Core Interface (CIF). 72

. 3.4. Building Integration Models for Global ATP in SAP ERP. 77

. 3.5. Monitoring Core Interface Processing in Global ATP (SAP APO). 79

. 3.6. Summary. 81

4. Basic Configuration and Master Data Required for Global ATP. 83

. 4.1. Basic Global ATP Configuration. 83

. 4.2. Master Data Requirement for Global ATP. 90

. 4.3. Summary. 93

5. Integrating Transportation Shipment and Scheduling with Global ATP. 95

. 5.1. Transportation and Shipment Scheduling Overview. 95

. 5.2. Transportation and Shipment Scheduling using the Configurable Process Scheduling (CPS) Method. 105

. 5.3. Summary. 117

6. Designing Your Supply Chain ATP with Rules-Based ATP. 119

. 6.1. Overview of Rules-Based ATP. 119

. 6.2. Business Case Study I: Product and/or Location Substitution. 120

. 6.3. Basic Configuration. 121

. 6.4. Basic Master Data: Rule Maintenance. 128

. 6.5. Scenario Testing for Location Substitution. 133

. 6.6. Business Case Study II: Consolidation Location. 136

. 6.7. Business Case Study III: Stock Transport Orders. 140

. 6.8. Business Case Study IV: Sales Scheduling Agreement. 143

. 6.9. Enhancements. 144

. 6.10. Summary. 146

7. Managing Your Supply Chain ATP with Product Allocation. 147

. 7.1. Overview of Product Allocation in Global ATP. 147

. 7.2. Business Case Study: Product Allocation. 149

. 7.3. Basic Configuration of Product Allocation in SAP APO. 151

. 7.4. Basic Master Data for Product Allocation. 163

. 7.5. Key Steps in Scenario Testing. 169

. 7.6. Enhancement for Product Allocation. 173

. 7.7. Summary. 175

8. Keeping Your Order Confirmation Firm with Global ATP Backorder Processing. 177

. 8.1. Overview of Backorder Processing (BOP) in Global ATP. 177

. 8.2. Basic Configuration for Backorder Processing. 181

. 8.3. Basic Master Data for Backorder Processing. 184

. 8.4. Key Steps in Scenario Testing. 187

. 8.5. Overview of Event-Driven Quantity Assignment (EDQA). 192

. 8.6. Enhancements in Backorder Processing. 200

. 8.7. Summary. 201

9. Streamlining Your Manufacturing Planning with Capable-to-Promise. 203

. 9.1. Overview of the Capable-to-Promise Process. 203

. 9.2. Business Case Study Example. 206

. 9.3. Capable-to-Promise: Basic Configuration. 209

. 9.4. Basic Master Data Requirements. 217

. 9.5. Key Steps in Scenario Testing. 224

. 9.6. Summary. 229

10. Confirming Customer Orders with Multilevel ATP Component-Level Check. 231

. 10.1. Overview of the Multilevel ATP Process. 231

. 10.2. Business Case Study Example. 234

. 10.3. Basic Configuration of Multilevel ATP. 236

. 10.4. Basic Master Data Rule Requirements. 244

. 10.5. Key Steps in Scenario Testing. 251

. 10.6. Summary. 256

11. Integrating Global ATP with Supply Planning. 257

. 11.1. Integration between Supply Planning and Order Fulfillment. 257

. 11.2. Integrating Rules of Global ATP in the Capable-to-Match Planning Run. 259

. 11.3. Integrating Global ATP in Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling. 265

. 11.4. Summary. 270

12. Integrating the SAP Customer Relationship Management System with Global ATP. 273

. 12.1. Overview of SAP CRM with Rules-Based ATP. 273

. 12.2. Basic Configuration in the SAP CRM System. 274

. 12.3. Basic Configuration in Global ATP for CRM Integration. 278

. 12.4. Master Data Maintenance. 280

. 12.5. SAP CRM Business Scenario Testing. 282

. 12.6. Enhancements in CRM for Global ATP. 284

. 12.7. Integration Scenarios with CRM. 284

. 12.8. Summary. 287

13. Accelerate Your Global ATP Implementation with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Packages. 289

. 13.1. Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture. 289

. 13.2. Modeling and Designing the Order Management Process in SOA--Case 1: ATP Check Enterprise Services Bundle. 292

. 13.3. Modeling and Designing Order-Management Process in SOA--Case 2: Availability Issue Resolution and Backorder Processing ES Bundle. 295

. 13.4. Understanding SOA by Design. 298

. 13.5. Enterprise Service Repository. 300

. 13.6. Summary. 302

14. Maintenance and Monitoring Procedure for Global ATP. 303

. 14.1. Monitoring and Maintenance. 303

. 14.2. Regular Transactions and Batch Jobs. 313

. 14.3. Disaster Recovery Plan. 315

. 14.4. Performance. 317

. 14.5. Application Log. 319

. 14.6. Sizing. 319

. 14.7. Summary. 320

. Appendices. 323

. A. Enhancements in Global ATP. 325

. B. SAP Notes for Global ATP. 333

. C. The Authors. 339

. Index. 341

Über Autor(innen)

Verma, Pavan
Pavan Verma has more than 16 years of experience in Supply Chain Management and has worked in the fields of GATP, SNP, and SD for over 12 years. Pavan‘s experience is diverse, and he has been a team leader, architect, and consultant on global projects with Big 4Four consulting and leading companies. In addition, he has vast experience in the pharmaceutical, paper, high tech, consumer packaging goods, and utility industries.

Pradhan, Sandeep
Sandeep Pradhan is an SAP solution architect in the supply chain management field and has more than 17 years of professional experience. He specializes in supply chain application advisory services and has achieved results by helping clients understand, architect, select, and implement the SAP supply chain solutions required to run their
businesses.
In his various roles (project manager, solution architect, functional consultant, supply chain manager), he has been responsible for providing thought leadership in supply chain strategy, business processes transformation, technology architecture, and business integration. He has worked on numerous full lifecycle SAP APO-Demand
Planning and Supply Network Planning implementations from the discovery phase through the implementation phase.

Sandeep holds an MBA from Monash University, Australia, and is also author of the book Implementing and Configuring SAP Event Management (SAP PRESS, 2010) and co-author of Global Available-to-Promise with SAP: Functionality and Configuration (SAP PRESS, 2011).

Sandeep Pradhan has 12 years of strong functional and technical SAP experience specializing in supply chain planning and supply chain execution business processes. He’s currently a manager with Capgemini. In addition to his various roles (Project Manager, Solution Architect, Supply Chain Manager) he has been responsible for providing thought leadership in Supply Chain strategy, business processes transformation, technology architecture and business integration. He has worked on full lifecycle project implementations from Discovery Phase till Implementation Phase.

Pavan Verma has more than 16 years of experience in Supply Chain Management and has worked in the fields of GATP, SNP, and SD for over 12 years. Pavan‘s experience is diverse, and he has been a team leader, architect, and consultant on global projects with Big 4Four consulting and leading companies. In addition, he has vast experience in the pharmaceutical, paper, high tech, consumer packaging goods, and utility industries.