APO Supply Planning –Master

data
Core Interface (CIF)
 Location
• Production plants, DCs, vendors, customers, etc

• Location contains following information

• Address of the plant/warehouse including state/ country
• Time Zone
• Calendars: Production, Shipping, Receiving & Warehouse Calendars
• Resources: Handling, Storage
• Priority of location
 Calendar

Factory calendars in SAP APO are the same as in SAP ERP „

Define workdays of a week and holidays „ Can be synchronized
with SAP ERP via Transfer Global Settings Transfer Global
Settings „ Global master data settings available for transfer
from connected SAP ERP source system: „ Units of currency „
Units of measure „ Fiscal year variants „ Factory calendar
Product/Material Master
The Material Master in SAP ERP correlates with the Product Master in SAP APO
Product Master in SAP APO is created by:
• Transferring Material Master from SAP ERP to SAP APO via the CIF
• Creating directly in SAP APO
Certain data is transferred from SAP ERP to SAP APO
• Basic data
• Units of measure
• MRP data
• Classification data
Important Fields in Product Master

 Requirement Strategy
 Forecast Consumption backward/forward
 Lot Size (Minimum/Maximum/Fixed), Rounding Values
 Material Priority
 Procurement Type
 Planned Delivery Time
 GI/GR Time
 Safety Days‘ Supply, Safety Stock qty
Quota Arrangements
•Facilitates share of business.
•SNP uses quota arrangements to split requirements by locations,
Inbound and Outbound quotas
•Quota arrangements can change over time to suit the changing
business requirements
•Helps with multi sourcing
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