Balance supply and demand across your global supply chain Enhance supply chain management (SCM) with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). - Integrated, best-in-class functionality for demand and supply - Production planning - Global available-to-promise (ATP) - Maximize supply network efficiency - Forecasting and demand management

Key benefits - Improve supply and demand planning for both internal and external supply chains - Tightly integrate with SAP ERP to access sales, material, and other data - Increase forecast accuracy and minimize inventory buffers - Align mid- to long-term demand plans with your overall supply capacity - Create optimized production plans for all of your factories - Provide reliable sales order confirmation dates

Key features Demand planning (DP) - Comprehensive demand forecasting tool set - Highly configurable planning books with macro functionality - Lifecycle, promotion, and collaborative demand planning Supply network planning (SNP) - Integrated purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation - Product flow planning along the entire supply chain, with consideration for constraints and penalties - Planning for different levels of detail, including aggregated planning - Choice of heuristic-, rule-, or optimization-based algorithm - Advanced safety stock planning algorithms Production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) - Multi-level production planning - Capable-to-promise - Choice of existing or custom heuristics - Support for lot quantity calculations and sourcing - Support for: make-to-stock, make-to-order, make-to-order with order BOM, engineer-to-order, project manufacturing, and flow manufacturing - Order pegging Global available-to-promise - Seamless integration with other SAP applications/components - Global availability checks on defined documents within a defined scope - Rules-based ATP using product or location substitution strategies - Product allocation for controlling commitments to key customers - Backorder processing - Multi-level ATP for triggering - BOM explosion and performing component checks - Capable to promise (CTP) call production planning (PP/DS)