Poor man's APO

The Advanced Planning Board for R3 plug-in.

Company SAP has announced the release SAP BestPractices for Chemicals V 1.470 on CEBIT 2004. The idea of BestPractices is to provide templates for a specific industry sector to mid-size industry customers that enable them to rapidly implement the ERP system SAP R/3.

SAP BestPractices for Chemicals V 1.470 contains a plug-in that enables the connection of an Advanced Planning Board for SAP R/3 of the SAP SCM Partner "OR Soft Jänicke GmbH" to the R/3 system. For this purpose SAP delivers a building block for the plug-in with installation and configuration guide as well as a description of the business procedures for the advanced planning board as part of the SAP BestPractices for Chemicals package. OR Soft delivers a CD with a preconfigured demo solution of the Advanced Planning Board for SAP R/3, a program for analysing a production model and a setup program. You can explore the functions of the Advanced Planning Board for SAP R/3 using the tools provided on this CD and the demonstration data provided as part of the SAP BestPractices for Chemicals package. You can setup and configure the Advanced Planning Board for SAP R/3 for use with your own operational data as a SAP GUI extension after obtaining a license key from OR Soft.

Debug Tip

How to download an internal table data in debug mode?

During a debug session choose

Goto-> Display data object ->Structure Editor

Then in the structure editor screen

System-> List-> Save ->Local file

Market very cold?

This (zero enthusiasm) post from sapfans:

I don't see much demand for APO expertise in Asia except for one or two implementations in China and Australia. Elsewhere, it is pretty much dead.

MIT online logistics course notes

Part of MIT OpenCourseWare program, the Logistics Systems Course covers many of the topics that interest people working on APO and SCM.