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inventory planning & Optimisation

Former Member
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Hi Experts,

How inventory planning & Optimisation is handled in APO Module ?

As far as i understood Safety stock planning (Basic & advanced methods ) is only solution we have.

Thanks.

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satish_waghmare3
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Hi sap ibp

Yes, Inventory planning is done using Safety Stock Planning methods available in APO. There are two types of method available in APO - Basic and Extended.

With Basic method, we specify Safety Stock quantities based on experience. (SB, SZ, SM, MB, MZ, MM).

Extended methods - it takes into account forecasted and actual demand, also it account for different between what you ordered and what was delivered. (AS, AT, BS, BT).  APO does some level of inventory planning but not the inventory optimization.

However SAP's SmartOps Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) software provides a comprehensive, enterprise-wide process for optimizing, managing, and monitoring inventory stocking levels for finished product and raw material components across the supply chain.

or You can read more about SAP IBP inventory module which has most of the features from SmartOps available. Here is a link to one of the document http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-65688

Please let me know if this helps

Thank you

Satish Waghmare

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