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SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)
APO in SCM 4.1 (and SCM 5.0) is a much improved planning system
compared to the previous versions of the tool itself and versus its
competition. APO offers a variety of modeling options from
basic time series models to multiple linear regression models.
APO DP also offers the capability to model, forecast and manage
the process by exception through
- exception alerts and
- user defined macro alerts.
It is important to leverage the full functionality of APO
modeling and exception management. If implemented correctly,
you can take advantage of the many automated modeling strategies
available in APO resulting in a more streamlined planning process
and organization.
To assess if you are getting the mileage out of your
million-dollar SAP implementation, you ask the following questions:
- Am I using a Pareto process in my forecasting activity?
- Are there products and customers that are better left to
APO's automated modeling strategy?
- Am I using a segmented modeling approach?
- How many customer/product segmentations are being reviewed
by my demand planners each month?
- Has APO helped improve our forecast accuracy?
- How is APO helping us simplify and improve the promotional
planning process? Is it integrated into the CRM system?
- Have I created the correct customer grouping for leveraging
correlations across customer forecast errors?
- Has the system simplified and improved forecast reporting
process?
- Are we using the system defined error metrics in APO?
Why are they different from the classic MAPE calculations
defined in this website?
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