Integration SAP APO and SAP BW

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1 Integration SAP APO and SAP BW SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 1

2 SAP SCM Rollout December 1998 SAP APO Release 1.1 GA Supply Chain Cockpit, DP, Supply Network Planning, PP/DS, ATP over 250 installations, 12 productive customers October 1999: SAP APO Release 2.0 GA SAP Enjoy Release Enhancements: Push, Hierarchical Planning,... SAP APO Collaborative Planning 2.0 Pilot Shipment May 2000 SAP APO Release 3.0A strong enhancements strong industry support SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 2

3 APO 2.0A installation details APO 2.0A is based on an R/3 4.6A Kernel BW 1.2B Oracle Means of delivery Upgrade Upgrade CD 1 Upgrade CD 2 New Installation Kernel CD (incl. APO, livecache, optimizer files) Presenation CD 1 (GUI, gateway inst. for NT) Presenation CD 2 (GUI, gatewy inst. for UNIX) RDBMS CD (database server inst. files) Export CD (database files for R/3 load) SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 3

4 CRT s and others / APO 1.1 APO CRT PI xx / CIF HP R/3 PI xx Plug In 99 / 2000 /... CIF Core Interface CRT Conflict Resolution Transport HP Hot Package LCP Legal Change Package SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 4

5 CRT s and others / APO 1.1 CIF release functional enhancement to establish integration similar to PI release CRT conflict resolution transport aligns changes made to objects by CIF and HP HP hot package regular way to ship R/3 corrections LCP legal change package HP + HR modifications sequence SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 5

6 R/3 PI - what does it mean? CIF modifications + enhancements as stand-alone layer PI Plug in landscape modifications enhancements planned to make PI available via Core Hot Packages prerequisite for IBU releases / Add On s R/3 4.0B R/3 4.5B SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 6

7 BW, APO and SC Cockpit KPIs BW Sales data Demand Planning Supply Network Planning APO Production Planning Detailed Scheduling Available To Promise Upload via BW extractors Integration via PI xx / CIF for R/3 R/3 R/3 R/3 R/3 Non R\3 Non R\3 4.5A GUI can be used for APO, BW and R/3 which means only one GUI version R/3 : APO and BW support specific R/3 releases and Hot Package versions. Please investigate according to your system and package level. Example: To run BW and APO in combination with one R/3 4.0B system, APO requires currently at least HP 16, BW requires at least HP 12. To run both. APO and BW, in combination with the R/3 4.0B, you have to install as a consequence HP 16. APO currently does not support any analysis functionality like Bex Analyzer in BW does. All kind of reporting needs to be done in BW. Master data extraction from to BW does not conflict with APO s CIF for R/3 (Core Interface) CIF for R/3 establishes the integration between R/3 systems and APO meaning the exchange of master and transactional data as well as planning results. Master data for APO Demand Planning are uploaded via DP immanent extractors, which are similar to BW extractors. Both do not conflict with each other. Deltas for BW and Demand Planning do not conflict with each other Patches: Recommended to apply the most up-to-date BW patch for APO Demand Planning and BW SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 7

8 BW and Supply Chain Cockpit BW BW Business Content for Supply Chain RFC call APO Supply Chain Cockpit KPI MD / TD APO master data APO transactional data Upload via BW extractors Integration via PI xx / CIF for R/3 R/3 R/3 R/3 R/3 Non R\3 Non R\3 250 KPIs delivered with BW Content Delivery Performance, Cycle Times, Inventory Control, Human Resources,... Supply Chain Cockpit monitors master - and transactional data from R/3 and non R/3 s Redundancy of master data in APO Master data for Demand Planning Master data for APO LiveCache applications From the APO Supply Chain Cockpit you start a query in BW, which refers to the selected master or transactional data. BW returns to you the performance indicators via the Bex. To start queries from the Supply Chain Cockpit you need a complete installation of BW SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 8

9 BW and Demand Planning BW APO Sales Analysis Demand Planning (DP) Data Mart Interface Historical Historical data Planning results Planned DB Datamart Staging Staging R/3 R/3 File File Sales Analysis Consolidation Enrichment Multi sources R/3 File BW Admin. Workbench delivered with APO Master data extraction from to BW does not conflict with APO s CIF for R/3 (Core Interface) Master data for APO Demand Planning are uploaded via DP immanent extractors, which are similar to BW extractors. Both do not conflict with each other. Deltas for BW and Demand Planning do not conflict with each other as well Sales data from BW are uploaded to APO DP Forecasts are calculated and measured based on this data Planning results like future demands are transfered back to BW for analysis Data Flow: Export InfoSource generatedin BW Export InfoSource transfered to APO via Meta Data Update Sales data uploaded to APO DP via the Export InfoSource SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 9

10 BW and Demand Planning Reporting BW Content for Demand Planner and Sales Reps Regional Forecast Reporting Top 10 deviations Planned/ Actual Planned actual deviation Forecast accuracy APO D M I Historical Planned Demand Planning DP delivers Planning data through data mart interface (DMI) BW Info Cube for information consumers BW Content available to analyse APO planning results Demand planner Sales Rep SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 10

11 Platform Support for SAP APO components APO 2.0A Presentation Server NT/Intel 4.0 Windows 95 Windows 98 APO 2.0A DB and App. Server DB2/UDB on AIX, Solaris, NT/Intel Informix on AIX, HP- UX, ReliantUNIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, NT/Intel MS SQL Server on NT/Intel Oracle on AIX, HP- UX, ReliantUNIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, NT/Intel APO 2.0A Optimization Server NT/Intel livecache for APO 2.0A NT/Intel Intel PSE - 36 SAP AG <Course Number> Course Overview - 11