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This lecture deals with supply chain management from a practitioner’s perspective with a special emphasis Advanced Planning Systems (APS) and the planning domain. The software solution SAP SCM, one of the most widely used Advanced Planning Systems, is used as an example to show functionality and application of an APS in practice.

First, the term supply chain management is defined and its scope is determined. Methods to analyze supply chains as well as indicators to measure supply chains are derived. Second, the structure of an APS (advanced planning system) is discussed in a generic way. Later in the lecture, the software solution SAP SCM is mapped to this generic structure. The individual planning tasks and software modules (demand planning, supply network planning / sales & operations planning, production planning / detailed scheduling, deployment, transportation planning, global available-to-promise) are presented by discussing the relevant business processes, providing academic background, describing typical planning processes and showing the user interface and user-related processes in the software solution. At the end of the lecture, implementation methodologies and project management approaches for SAP SCM are covered.

Contents

1. Introduction to Supply Chain Management

1.1.        Supply Chain Management Fundamentals

1.2.        Supply Chain Management Analytics

2. Structure of Advanced Planning Systems

3. SAP SCM

3.1.        Introduction / SCM Solution Map

3.2.        Demand Planning

3.3.        Supply Network Planning / Sales & Operations Planning

3.4.        Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling

3.5.        Deployment

3.6.        Transportation Planning / Global Available to Promise

3.7.        Cloud-based Supply Chain Planning

4. SAP SCM in Practice

4.1.        Project Management and Implementation

4.2.        SAP Implementation Methodology