Integration

SAP APO and SAP BW

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SAP SCM Rollout

l December 1998
n SAP APO Release 1.1 GA
w Supply Chain Cockpit, DP, Supply Network Planning, PP/DS, ATP
w over 250 installations, 12 productive customers
l October 1999:
n SAP APO Release 2.0 GA
w SAP Enjoy Release
w Enhancements: Push, Hierarchical Planning, ...
w SAP APO Collaborative Planning 2.0 Pilot Shipment
l May 2000
n SAP APO Release 3.0A
w strong enhancements
w strong industry support

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APO 2.0A installation details

APO 2.0A is based on

an R/3 4.6A Kernel
BW 1.2B
Oracle 8.0.5.2.0
Means of delivery
Upgrade New Installation
Upgrade CD 1 Kernel CD (incl. APO,
Upgrade CD 2 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)
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CRTs and others / APO 1.1

APO

CRT
PI xx / CIF

PI xx Plug In 99 / 2000 / ...

HP CIF Core Interface
CRT Conflict Resolution Transport
R/3 HP Hot Package
LCP Legal Change Package

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CRTs and others / APO 1.1

l CIF release
n functional enhancement to establish integration
n similar to PI release
l CRT
n conflict resolution transport
n aligns changes made to objects by CIF and HP
l HP
n hot package
n regular way to ship R/3 corrections
l LCP
n legal change package
n HP + HR modifications
l sequence

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R/3 PI - what does it mean ?

l CIF
n modifications + enhancements as stand-alonelayer

l PI
n Plug in landscape
w modifications
w enhancements
n planned to make PI available via Core Hot Packages
w prerequisite for IBU releases / Add Ons
w R/3 4.0B
w R/3 4.5B

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BW, APO and OLTP

SC Cockpit

KPIs
APO

Supply Available
BW Demand
Network
Production Detailed
To
Planning Planning Scheduling
Planning Promise
Sales
data

Upload via BW extractors Integration via PI xx / CIF for R/3

OLTP

Non R\3 Non R\3

R/3 R/3 R/3 R/3
OLTP OLTP

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n 4.5A GUI can be used for APO, BW and R/3 OLTP which means only one GUI version
n R/3 OLTP: 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.
n APO currently does not support any analysis functionality like Bex Analyzer in BW does. All
kind of reporting needs to be done in BW.
n Master data extraction from OLTP to BW does not conflict with APOs 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
n Patches: Recommended to apply the most up-to-date BW patch for APO Demand Planning and
BW

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BW and Supply Chain Cockpit

BW APO

BW Business Content Supply Chain Cockpit

for Supply Chain
RFC call KPI MD / TD

APO master data

APO transactional data

Upload via BW extractors Integration via PI xx / CIF for R/3

OLTP

Non R\3 Non R\3

R/3 R/3 R/3 R/3
OLTP OLTP

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n 250 KPIs delivered with BW Content

Delivery Performance, Cycle Times, Inventory Control, Human Resources, . . .
n Supply Chain Cockpit monitors master - and transactional data from R/3 and non R/3 OLTPs
n Redundancy of master data in APO
Master data for Demand Planning
Master data for APO LiveCache applications
n 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.
n To start queries from the Supply Chain Cockpit you need a complete installation of BW

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BW and Demand Planning

BW APO

Sales Analysis Demand Planning (DP)

Historical Planned
Historical data
Data Mart
Interface
Planning results DB Datamart

Staging
Staging

R/3 R/3 File File

l Sales Analysis R/3 File

l Consolidation
l Enrichment l BW Admin. Workbench delivered
l Multi sources with APO
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n Master data extraction from OLTP to BW does not conflict with APOs 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
n Sales data from BW are uploaded to APO DP
Forecasts are calculated and measured based on this data
n Planning results like future demands are transfered back to BW for analysis
n 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

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BW and Demand Planning Reporting

BW Content for Demand Planner and Sales Reps

Regional Forecast Planned actual

Reporting deviation

Top 10 deviations Forecast

Planned/ Actual accuracy

APO
Demand Planning
D Historical
M
I Planned

l DP delivers Planning data through data mart interface (DMI)

l BW Info Cube for information consumers

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n BW Content available to analyse APO planning results

Demand planner
Sales Rep

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Platform Support for SAP APO components

l APO 2.0A Presentation Server

n NT/Intel 4.0
n Windows 95
n Windows 98
l APO 2.0A DB and App. Server
n DB2/UDB on AIX, Solaris, NT/Intel
n Informix on AIX, HP- UX, ReliantUNIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, NT/Intel
n MS SQL Server on NT/Intel
n Oracle on AIX, HP- UX, ReliantUNIX, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, NT/Intel
l APO 2.0A Optimization Server
n NT/Intel
l liveCache
liveCache for APO 2.0A
n NT/Intel
n Intel PSE - 36

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