Thursday, 23 January 2014

What is SAP APO ?


 

 SAP APO 




SAP Advanced Planning and Optimizer or SAP APO is the planning component within the mysap scm solution. apo is an acronym for advanced planner and optimizer. this is a large component of sap's new dimension products. apo is an entire suite of supply chain planner applications that increase overall knowledge of the supply chain and provide forecasting, planning and optimization.



There are eight application levels within sap apo: network design, supply network planning, demand planning, production planning and detailed scheduling, transportation planning and vehicle scheduling, global availabilty and supply chain collaboration


The SAP APO is not a standalone application and requires a backend erp system such as sap r/3 for the execution. sap r/3 communicate with sap apo using the the apo core interface (cif) which supplies sap apo with the master and the transaction data in the real time. 


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