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Pursuing a career in SAP-APO?

November 13, 2013, 7:48 pm
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Hi Friends,

 

I need your advice on a career in SAP-APO.Below is a brief description about myself.

I am a Certified SAP-PP consultant with 3.5 yrs in SAP and 6 years of domain exp. Have exp in QM and PM modules also.

I want to pursue a career in SAP-APO and planning to do a certification which would cost around 7 to 8 lakhs in India. But before that, I have a few queries .

 

Should i pursue a career in SAP-APO is the first and foremost question?

Once i complete the training, what would be my job prospects in SAP APO?

Do Companies recruit fresher?Will i have to start as a fresher in SAP APO?

Can you share your exp in APO.?

 

Looking for all your valuable suggestions.

 

Thanks.

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Sales Orders not getting transferred to APO from ECC

June 4, 2013, 3:47 am
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Hi to all.

 

We have following issue:

 

We have integration model for sales orders.

Generation and activation went well all statuses are "green".

But we cannot see sales orders in APO.

When I go to CCR transaction there are also no info about sales orders so I mean all fields consist only zeroes so even no info about errors and total number of sales orders also zero.

Also I must admit that there are no issues with Purch. Reqs/Purch.Orders and Stocks - everything is APO and visible in interactive book/rrp/ccr transactions.

What can be the root cause of this issue?

 

Thanks, Andrey.

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Deployment Heuristics Push Setting Query

November 15, 2013, 2:52 am
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Hi all,

 

I see the below information for method X in push Deployment Heuristics:

 

If you are using strategy X( Push by Demand)

  • the entire supply is distributed immediately to the demand locations for the entire planning horizon .

 

My question is what is: "the entire planning horizon".. what defines the entire horizon? is it for ALL demand and supplies I planned for in SNP Heuristics, e.g. 24 months future? Or is it the entire Push Deployment Horizon (as per MAT1 SNP2 tab)

 

 

SSB

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Fiscal year variant creation in SAP APO

November 18, 2013, 2:41 am
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Hi Ada ,

 

Thanks for sharing SAP Note 737230 to clear my all doubts related to Technical period formation .

 

Could you please help me how to create fiscal year variant for the below requirement : -

 

New time bucket profile should create such a way that it should display in week format ( Data View ) by considering a split of A & B part at the starting and end of every particular month ,

 

For example : -

 

Week  Mo  Tu  We Th  Fr  Sa  SU

 

44       28    29   30  31  1    2   3

 

45        4      5     6    7    8    9  10

 

46       11    12   13  14  15  16  17

 

47       18     19   20  21  22  23  24

 

48        25    26  27    28  29  30  1

 

In above example , week 44 consist of Oct'13 ending and starting of Nov '13 period and in week 48 it has Nov '13 ending and starting
of Dec'13 Period . Business wants Week 44 and Week 48 should split into A & B format for that individual week .

 

Also tell me how this setting will be applicable across the year like 2013 , 2014 , 2015 etc as we are defining fiscal year period for a particular year itself or it will automatically applicable across the year .

 

Regards,

Sesh

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deleting blocked elements

November 14, 2013, 7:32 am
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hi

 

there are some blocked elements residing in APO which has found its way from ECC...if i want to delete it to keep my APO clean.... is there any way out....because there are thousands of elements that way in APO.

 

 

thanks

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Teco orders not being updated in APO

November 15, 2013, 4:44 am
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Hi All,

 

when the orders are being tecod in ECC ,they are not getting updated in APO resulting in the orders staying back in APO and planning also goes for a toss.can anyone help me in solving this it will be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

Thanks,

Suyash

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How to delete the purchase requisition ?

November 12, 2013, 8:11 pm
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In R/3, Its showing there are 2 purchanse requisition in tcode CO09 (Availability overview). But when do CCR for the same material and plant, there is 0(zero) inconsistencies...

 

So Please suggest.. How to delete the Purchase requisition?

 

Regards,

Santosh G C

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Shipment History Qty Mismatch in APO-BI Infocube with respect to Planning Book

September 29, 2013, 9:53 pm
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Hi Gurus,

 

 

I currently ran into a problem, which is Shipment History Qty Mismatch in APO-BI Info cube with respect to Planning Book. As per my analysis i have checked the shipment history for a particular material for a posting period in ECC and then checked in APO-BI info cube here the qty is same, but when the data is loaded from info cube to planning area in shipment key figure the qty is being mismatched. We have a background job for loading the data from BI info cube to planning area, i have checked the variant for TSCUBE transaction here "add data" is unchecked.

 

Any help in this would be appreciated.!

 

Kind Regards

Kartik

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BOP is considering extra orders

November 17, 2013, 10:48 am
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Hello Guru

BOP is considering extra orders apart from open orders in r/3. Is there any way we can check how many orders are considered in BOP filter and what are its details. So what shold I check for those extra orders.

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SNP Purchase Requisition (Subcontracting) 'EA' vs. Purchase Requisition 'AG'

December 1, 2013, 3:55 pm
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Hi Experts,

 

I've been struggling for days now about my Subcon PO scenario. I think this is not SAP standard but the requirement is to have a Purchase Requisition 'AG' with Item Category 'L' posted in MD04. However, whenever I run the Heuristics (i.e. either Location, Network or Multilevel) I can't be able to produce this 'AG' but rather SNP Purchase Requisition (Subcontracting) 'EA' is getting populated in RRP3 view. I've checked my PPM and everything seems fine. Also tried to created Purchase Requisition 'AG' under Distribution Receipt(Planned) key figure manually in the interactive planning but it's giving me a 'blank' Source Location, if I tried this manually in Live environment - this is working.

 

What could be the possible checks that I should perform? Also, although it's not quite a SAP standard but assuming that it is working in our Live environment, I think I'm just missing a setup somewhere else.

 

Let me know your inputs. Thanks!

 

Regards,

AA

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CIF error Location does not exist for external location XXXX

November 29, 2013, 12:15 am
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Hi Expert,

Facing issue durin CIF "Location does not exist for external location 1000"

 

Requirement:- Need to connect two ECC(ECC1 & ECC2) system with one APO (( BSG1 & BSG2 ). 

ECC1 is already conneted withAPO as BSG1 and locaiton 1000 aleaday there.

 

Now we would like to map ECC2 with APO.

 

Action taken :- defined BSG2 and assigned  to logical system also.

 

in ECC2 :- 

-consits of same list of locations e.g.1000 

-activated  Locitn integration model but I can't see new entries for location 1000 as BSG2 in APO table /SAPAPO/LOCMAP. 

  only one entry 1000 with BSG1 appears.

- created new material ( it doesn't exist in ECC1) and trying to transfer material so getting  error "Location does not exist for external location 1000"

 

 

Would like to understand if we need to create new locaion ( not as 1000) or same location can be CIF as BSG2.

 

regards

Samir

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FG and SFG Resource Capacity in CTM

December 3, 2013, 11:00 pm
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Hello Experts,

 

I would like to ask your inputs on the behavior of CTM when it comes to FG and SFG Resource. Because in my case, resource capacity of SFG is different on resource capacity of FG. But I thought they should be the same? Since FG will just create dependent demand for SFG, so the assumption is that it will create the same Planned order values, which will consume the resource capacity.

 

I have this example for your understanding on what is happening:

 

Resource 1 ( for FG)

     Demand = 100

     Planned Order = 100 (created after CTM)

     Resource capacity = 100%

 

Resource 2 (for SFG)

     Dependent demand = 100

     Planned Order = 80 (created after CTM)

     Resource capacity = 100%

 

This is the one I thought that should happen:

 

 

Resource 1 ( for FG)

     Demand = 100

     Planned Order = 100 (created after CTM)

     Resource capacity = 100%

 

Resource 2 (for SFG)

     Dependent demand = 100

     Planned Order = 100 ==> resource will create same Planned order because it has the same dependent demand from FG

     Resource capacity = 100%

 

I will really appreciate if you will be able to throw me some light on this problem.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,
Ayana

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Days Supply type value has 9999.99 value in product view

December 5, 2013, 1:21 am
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Hi Gurus ,

 

When I am executing the product view the days supply type and receipts days supply type has value 9.999,99.Since i am new to APO just want to know why its picking up such a huge value and how the system is calculating this value.

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Transferring Dependant Requirement of Semifinished Material to APO

November 19, 2013, 6:17 am
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Hi,

 

I have a scenario wherein the client is manufacturing cakes, so am planning the Finished goods (i.e FG1) of cakes in APO with MRP type X0.Its SFG which is Base Cake is also planned in SNP since it is a critical component.NOw the client also gets demand for Make to ORder cakes whoose material code is different than the normal cake being planned in APO.So this MAke to ORder (i.e FG2) cake is being planned using strategy 40 and mRP type "PD" and based on sales order.

But the SFG is the same Base cake which is planned in APO.

my problem is dat this requirement from the FG2 goes as dependant requirement to SFG but it does not create any planned orders for Sfg AS IT HAS mrp type X0, also the dependant requirement does not get transferred to APO so this reqmnt is not planned in APO as well.

My question is can we transfer this dependant requiremnt of SFG to APO.

 

Thanks in adavnce.

 

REgards,

 

Raj

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GATP BOP Partial quNTITY

February 18, 2010, 7:50 am
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Hi Gurus,

 

I am facing a peculiar problem in GATP BOP.

 

GATP BOP is not confirming partial quantities.

 

My scenario is like this.

 

1. Sales Order Created for 100 Tons, while slaes order is creating there is no stock.

2. After while 50 tons got posted in to the Unrestricted stock.

3. Ran the BOP, Sales Orders doent confirmed due tot he partial stock available.

 

To confirm the system behaviour,

 

Again I have posted the 50 Tons and Ran the BOP this time BOP has confirmed the sales order.

 

To recheck I have cancelled te material document of 50 Tons to reduce the stock to 50 Tons and again ran the BOP, system removed the confirmations ad not consider the partial quantities for confirmation.

 

Please help as this is the show stopper in my project for the integration testing.

 

Thanks in Advance.

 

Thanks and Regards,

T.Muthyalappa

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Pegging relationship in CTM

December 5, 2013, 7:37 pm
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Hello gurus,

 

I got a CTM planning logic concern on how demand is being pegged by CTM run and how it is being prioritized. I know that this can be controlled in CTM settings strategies tab but this sample scenario made me confused...

 

I have a two demands:

 

demand 1 = 1000 dated 01.01.2014

demand 2 = 500 dated 03.02.2014

 

I only have 100 stocks on the week before demand 1.

 

What I find weird is that after my CTM run, it created Planned Order pegged to demand 2 only.

 

05.01.2014 = 300 ==> pegged to demand 2

12.01.2014 = 100 ==> pegged to demand 2

19.01.2014 = 100 ==> pegged to demand 2

 

The one pegged to demand 1 is the remaining stock of 100, which is obviously cannot fulfill it.

 

My demand prioritization in CTM is Material Availability Date. So in my understanding, CTM should create planned order prioritizing demand 1 since it is the one with earlier MAD.

 

Is there any other settings that controls this scenario? ALso, can you give me more information how the system would know how it will peg the stocks and planned orders in a demand?

 

And how they were prioritized?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Ayana Lee

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How to Consider expiry ( self life ) while running SNP heuristic

December 5, 2013, 10:14 pm
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Hello All

 

We have a typical business case, We are not using self life functionalality in SCM system. But we would like to consider the stocks based on the expiry date.

 

Example

 

Forecast :1000 cs from customer 1

 

Forecast : 400 cs from cusomer 2

 

Total Forecast is : 2500 Cs

 

Stock : 500 CS ( out of 500 cs 50 cs have 18 month expiry date and rest of 450 cs have 12 month expiry date)

 

so customer 1 will accept stocks of only 18 month and above

 

and Customer 2 will accept stocks of 12 month and above

 

So during normal Location heuristic the net requirement calculation output will be 900 CS. ( 1400-500 = 900 CS)

 

But we would like have resluts like as below

 

(1000- 50 = 950 ) & (400-450=0) meaning we want system to propose requirment 950 cs for customer 1 and nothing for customer 2 beacuse sufficiant stock of 12 month expiry.

 

Is there any way to plan like this in SNP. Any help or hints will be great help.

 

Best Regards

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Initializing a key figure is not working properly in the planning book on the first change

November 20, 2013, 10:28 am
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Anyone -

 

We are currently having an issue where I need to do a calculate a Total based on if a key figure is initial or not.  If the key figure is initial, then the calculation is a SUM of a few other key figures.  If it is not initial, then

 

The macro logic should be very straight forward:

 

IF

check to see if KFA is initial

IS_INITIAL(

Row: Key Figure A (From X PWW/YYYY)

)

= 1

Row Total =

SUM(

Row KF B

Row KF C

)

ELSE

Row Total =

Row Key Figure A

ENDIF

 

The problem I am having is that when the following scenario occurs:

1. I open up the planning book

2. A value already exists in Key Figure A, so Row Total already equals Key Figure A

3. I wipe out the value in Key Figure A.

4. Row Total is blank.

 

Based on the logic in the macro, when Key Figure A is wiped out, then Total should equal the SUM of KF B and KF C, but this is not happening when I first clear out the KF A.

 

If I re-enter a value in KF A, then clear it out again, the macro logic works perfectly.  There is only an issue with the very first clearing of the key figures.

 

Any suggestions??

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Note 1423269 - Consumption and Unit of measure

December 5, 2013, 8:15 am
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Dear Experts,

 

We have an issue about forecast consumption regarding the unit of measure. In ECC, the PGIed quantity was in Bottles but APO is in Cases. The quantity is okay as both systems reflect the same (e.g 100 in ECC and 100 in APO). However, as I've said, the 100 in ECC is in Bottles and the 100 in APO is in Cases. Hence, forecast consumption results is not calculating correctly in the Forecast tab of RRP3.

 

With the above issue, I found this note 1423269 that says that the only resolution for the above issue is to have the unit of measure the same in both systems. Of course, business would not like that setup and we must find a way to convert that quantity correctly in APO. I'm thinking of getting the Unit of Measure field in table /SAPAPO/DP_SCHED but not sure how to do it and our ABAP team still lookng into this. This is the first step and then after that is to use a user exit to convert the quantity found in the table to desired unit of measure for the material used.

 

Is that a correct solution? Can you share if you have the same scenario and how did you resolve it? Hoping for a great discussion on this. Thank you.

 

Regards,

AA

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Forecasting in APO Service Parts Planning

December 12, 2013, 6:43 am
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Good day, colleagues!

 

I'm learning forecast functionality in SAP Service Parts Planning now and I've faced strange case.

I start transaction /SAPAPO/SPPFCST - Interactive Forecasting, select product, location and planning version. Then I click on "Change" button, then "Model selection" button and "Forecasting" button. SPP showes me results in "Demand: Forecast" line (see pic.1_1 and pic. 1_2).

pic 1_1.PNG

 

pic 1_2.PNG

Then I start APO Planning Service Manager and execute my forecast planning profile "XSPP_FCST2", which has only one planning service "SPP_FCS_SERVICE" and forecast profile service "XSPP_FCST_GENERAL" (for settings see pic 2_1).

pic 2_1.PNG

 

As a result  I have another picture (see pic  2_2 and pic 2_3).

pic 2_2.PNG

pic 2_3.PNG

I have the same forecast strategy in both method's - "Seasonal Trend Model with FPG".

 

I can't understanding why I get different results in these cases.

 

Dear colleagues, do you have any ideas?

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