Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Table of Abbreviations xv Part 1 Cultural Background: The Business and Technical Context for SCM 1 1 How to Use This Book: APO as a Mind Map 3 One Book, Many Curriculums: Custom Recommendations for Reading Order 5 Included and Excluded: Scope of this Text 6 2 SCM Architecture 11 Enterprise Landscape for Planning in SCM 11 SCM Applications and Components 14 Simulating the Supply Chain 20 APO Tools for Users 22 3 Supply Chain Landscape 34 Supply Chain Landscape 34 Planning Supply Chain Disciplines 40 Supply Chain Data Pipelines 47 Integrated, Wall-to-Outside-the-Wall Supply Chain Solution 49 4 Advice to the Executive Considering SAP APO and SCM 50 Six Short Executive Lessons in ERP 51 Profile of an SAP SCM Project with a High Likelihood of Success 59 Part 2 Stocks and Bases: Master Data SCM 61 5 Supply Chain Management Master Data 63 Locations and Calendars 63 Products 70 Resources and Work Centers 84 Production Process Models and Run Time Objects 96 Transportation Lanes 108 External Procurement Relationships 111 Quota Arrangements 116 Models and Planning Versions 119 Transactional Data 124 Master Data Recipes 127 6 Analytical Master Data: BW Primer Part I 131 SCM versus ''Analytical'' Master Data 131 Star Schema 133 BW, APO, and Analytical Data Objects 135 BW in the SCM Data Mart 138 Setting Up Analytical Master Data 138 7 Core Interface 146 When R/3 Is Not the Transactional Data Management System 147 Using R/3 with APO 147 Basic Integration Model Configuration 148 Part 3 Entrees: APO Planning Modules 161 8 APO User Interfaces and the PP/DS Module 163 General APO User Interfaces 164 PP/DS Context 202 PP/DS Master Data and CIF 205 Using PP/DS 208 Configuring PP/DS 214 Detailed Scheduling and PP/DS User Interfaces 222 9 Demand Planning Module 230 DP Master Data and CIF 231 Using DP 232 Configuring DP 235 Univariate Forecast 240 Demand Planning Configuration Recipe 250 10 Supply Network Planning 251 SNP Master Data and CIF 253 Using SNP 254 Configuring SNP 257 SNP Configuration Recipe 271 Part 4 Beyond Planning: Analytics, Collaboration, and Keys for Success 273 11 BW Primer Part II 275 Not Just a Data Warehouse: Reengineering ERP 275 Using BEx 278 BW Enterprise and BW Data Mart 281 Profile of a Full-Powered APO Deployment 282 12 Inventory Collaboration Hub and APO Collaboration 285 B2B Context of ICH and Collaboration 285 ICH Master Data 289 Using ICH and APO Collaboration 290 ICH Data Pipelines 294 13 The Lucky Chapter: Of Boats and Software--Four Keys to Unlocking SCM 296 ''Keys'': To Neuter a Cliche 297 It's Only a Key If You Know It's a Key 298 The Keys 299 What Would You Pay For Wal-Mart's or UPS's Supply Chain? 310 Index 313.