A Best Practice Approach to Improve the Order-to-Ship Process Using GATP Functionality in SAP APO
SAP insider event is one of the most awaited and sought-after annual event in the SAP consulting community. The event specifically focuses on broad areas of Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Life-cycle management and Procurement. Taking this opportunity, as part of the Infosys SAP and SCM family,am planning to present some interesting and thought-provoking experiences that we went through as we implemented Available-to-Promise(ATP) engine at a leading global FMCG major.
Shipment Lot-sizing is all about making sure all the key parameters in orders that are quantity-centric are lotsized in a unit of measure understood by the Shipment Planning organization. This includes Order quantity, Confirmed quantity and Delivery quantity. The latter two can be lot-sized using simple set of coding.In the same vein, the concept of Route Scheduling or Sailing-Scheduling helps consolidate transportation plans based on geographical location of destination. The business rules for Sailing Schedule can be modeled in gATP in a manner that there is very less manual intervention required in subsequent processes.
Overall, preparing the data in gATP for downstream application such as Logistics takes the Supply Chain efficiency to a new level and that is what we will discuss in SAP insider. So watch out for the session on 15th April at Paris at 12:00 noon local time on the topic "A Best Practice Approach to Improve the Order-to-Ship Process Using GATP Functionality in SAP APO". For detials on my session click - http://www.scm2011.com/session.cfm?id=1174&u=europe&s
