APO Basic Question

[Former Member]

Hi APO ers,

I am a novice in APO. have a basic question

Components : BI ,Live cache, CIF, APO/

Master data, Transactional data

Can anyone please walk me through a scenario on how the data flows when these components are involved. I do have a basic understanding of the data flow. But more keen on to listen it from the APO gurus.

Thanks for your support!!

NP

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Lets take one secnario in that you have to transfer data from R/3 to APO & Vice versa..

1. Now you have BI system & we you need to transfer Sales History data from R/3 to APO..In that case BI, APO-BW & APO come in to picture.. First you have to create Generic data source user the sales data table & replicate to external BI or APO-BW..Then create whole extraction process..Extract the data from R/3 & keep in APO-BW or BI & then trasfer to DP Planning area for forecasting purpose.

2. Now you both APO-DP & APO-SNP..Scenario is like this first you need to create forecast & then transfer to SNP for planning purpose say Optimiser Run. Before doing these steps you have some master data in to APO say Product Master ( which is called Material Master in R/3), Resource (Work Center), PPM or PDS (Prod. Version)..Now trasfer these master data to APO you required Core Interface to transfer these data. Now for planning you required some transactiona data too say Stocks, Sales order etc..for that purpose you required core Interface...After planning you can trasfer planned order, Purchase requisition to R/3 through core Interface..

Hope this will help you.

Regards

Sujay

[Former Member]

Hi Patel,

I have mentioned below two scenarios both with master data and transactional data involving the components

as you have requested.

1) Master Data:- (BI, Livecache, CIF, APO)

a) All master data are maintained in R/3 system.

b) They are transferred to APO from R/3 via Coreinterface (CIF)

c) In CIF, the data are getting updated into APO and in livecache.

d) Livecache is functionality used to store time & order series in APO

e) Livecache is used for transformation and retrievability of data for

planning involved operations

f) BI is a tool used to collect, update and extract data from all its

integrated components (SAP & non-sap).

g) It is also used as a reporting tool (BI)

h) If any change is done in master data in R/3, it will update the

APO system and in turn to its connected systems.

2) Transactional data:-

a) Transactional data are exected from R/3 system

b) Transactional data also can be generated from APO system

and inturn gets updated to R/3 system.

c) Transactional data in general moves from R/3 to APO as

OLTP (Online transaction processing)

d) In APO, the transactional data are stored in time series and in

Order series

e) DP uses time series data whereas SNP uses order series data

f) Both time series and orders series data are stored in livecache

g) All transactional data are pulled into BI for data extraction

and reporting purposes.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Thank you all for your inputs!!

NP

[Former Member]

Hi Niharika,

You have asked a very broad question. You will find many link if search this forum. However you dont need to be expert on BI or Livechece.

"Can anyone please walk me through a scenario on how the data flows when these components are involved. I do have a basic understanding of the data flow."

OK. Please go through the below links (Blog created by great Somnath Manna). It will be a great help..........

/people/somnath.manna/blog/2006/12/21/demystifying-cif

/people/somnath.manna/blog/2006/12/31/demystifying-cif--part-ii

Thanks,

Satyajit