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What is the Supply Chain Management??

What is the Advance Planner Optimiser?

How the APO Demand Planning help to the business?

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Hi Dallyanusha,

1) What is the Supply Chain Management??

A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the distribution of these finished products to customers.

Supply chains exist in both service and manufacturing organizations, although the complexity of the chain may vary greatly from industry to industry and firm to firm.

Managing the overall above activities constitute the Supply chain management.

2) What is the Advance Planner Optimiser?

SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) offers a fully integrated of functions that you use to plan and execute your supply chain processes. It basically involves the activity of matching demand Vs supplies

3) How the APO Demand Planning help to the business?

a) Business collaboration on a strategic, tactical, and operational planning level

b) Co-operation between partners at all stages of the supply chain process; from order receipt, stock monitoring, through final shipping of the product

c) Cultivation of customer and business partner relationships

d) Constant optimization and evaluation of the supply chain networku2019s efficiency

Hope your queries are clarified.

Please confirm.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

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Hi

Supply chain management: SAP Supply Chain Management enables collaboration, planning, execution, and coordination of the entire supply network.

[url]http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/scm/index.epx

Advanced Planning and optimizer::SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization offers a fully integrated pallet of functions that you use to plan and execute your supply chain processes.

We have 1.demand planning

2.supply network planning

3.pp/ds

4.gatp

5.Tpvs

....and many module which help in planning and optimizing the supply chain and collaborating with suppliers and customers.

Demand Planning:Use APO Demand Planning to create a forecast of market demand for your company's product..The result of APO Demand Planning is the demand plan.Using the DP library of statistical forecasting and advanced macro techniques you can create forecasts based on demand history and past sales,using promotions u can create u r neew plans according to seasons.It is powerful tool for forecasting technique.