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| About The Customer |
The customer is the Singapore division
of the largest consumer IT company focused on helping people apply
technology in meaningful ways to their businesses, personal lives
and communities.
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| The Challenge |
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Being part of implementation of SAP APO Ver 3.0A for the largest
division of customer company involving 11 countries in Asia Pacific
for the entire commercial product Lines.
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The Solution
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As part of the implementation of SAP
APO Ver 3.0A, our team has implemented four projects for the customer.
They include:
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Road Runner - SAP APO Ver 3.0A
implementation for the largest division of customer company
involving 11 countries in Asia Pacific for all the commercial
product Lines |
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Navigator - SAP APO Ver 3.0A APO
Implementation for the largest division of customer company
involving 11 countries in Asia Pacific consumer product lines
and supplies product lines |
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Gromit Phase II - Integrating
the Global APO/BW with the AP Regional forecasting systems
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Upgrading BW systems
from 2.0B to 3.1C
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Overall, the project involves technical and business consultants at
customer company in Asia Pacific to implement APO 3.0A for the largest
division involving DP & SNP for 11 countries in Asia Pacific.
Our team was involved in configuring DP to bring in the division's
business into APO to integrate purchasing, procurement and manufacturing
for tactical planning and sourcing techniques. Other aspects involved
configuration, user presentation, testing and implementation of APO.
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Full cycle implementation of DP
3.0A to include detailed design, configuration work plan development,
integration of R/3 and B/W from the APO side |
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Configuration of Demand Planning
Profiles, creation of new POS, planning area, Info Objects,
Info Cube with 10 different Key figures and 6 characteristics. |
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Creation of new Key
figures (Info cube & LC based) and Characteristics other
than the standard provided by SAP.
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Creation of Planning
area for DP to incorporate different key figures and characteristics.
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Creation of new Planning
Books and Data Views as per the requirement from the Business
users and Planners. |
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Design of new Macros
and Alerts for the Calculation of Forecast Accuracy, Forecast
variance, Forecast Revenue and Quota and to display Alerts. |
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Setting up of various
Activities, DP Calendar day (CD) and Work day (WD) jobs to calculate
the following
- Initialization of Planning Areas
- Generation of CVCs
- Generation of Proportional factors
- Calculation of Accuracy, Variance and Revenue
- Execution of Statistical Forecast
- Key Figure Copy for Month Roll Over
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Working with Data Sources,
Info source, Info packages etc. |
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Extraction of data
from live cache into BW info cube (different instance), APO
info cube |
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Integration of APO
with BW and Legacy global planning tool to load History and
forecast |
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Setting up of complete
data model for APO related info cubes in BW and APO. |
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Realignment and Realignment
copy for the creation of new CVCs and Key figure values |
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Installation and testing
of APO Support Pack 19. |
After the applications were rolled out, our team has been supporting
the installations. Some of the support activities include:
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Support of DP &
SNP modules during the Warranty and Post Warranty periods |
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Monitoring of any critical
failures in CIF and CTM run. |
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Making necessary changes
in the Material master, BOM, Product master and PPM based on
the requirements from Business users.
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Creation of Additional
Macros, Key Figures and Planning Books/Views based on the requirements
from Business users. |
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| The Benefits |
The customer greatly benefited from the availability
of talented SAP resources
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