SAP APO

SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO) is a robust tool designed to enable your organization to achieve the inconsistency between aspects or parts of a whole goal of improving customer service while reducing costs. By enabling visibility for and access to all stakeholders involved in generating a single, organization wide demand plan, the demand planning capability of SAP APO projects the needs of your organization’s customers.

Together, demand planning and supply network planning can support your organization’s entire sales and operations planning process. The detailed, tactical decision support capabilities, which help turn the plan into reality, are also handled by components of SAP APO, such as production planning and detailed scheduling. It insures each of the production assets is loaded to achieve maximum efficiency for the production line and facility. The best use of fleet assets is determined through transportation planning and vehicle scheduling. Finally, global available-to promise (GATP) allows your company to get products to your customers as soon as possible, helping you meet customer demand that exceeds current inventory position.

The benefits of implementing SAP APO, is that it provides the basis for an end-to-end supply chain management solution, seamlessly linking all key processes -- from order generation to production planning to transportation.