Preface

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Objective of This Book

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Target Audience

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How to Read This Book

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Acknowledgments

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1 Introduction to Order Promising

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1.1 Business Challenges in Order Promising

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1.2 Available-to-Promise in Business Processes

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1.2.1 Order to Cash

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1.2.2 Supply Chain Planning

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1.2.3 Production

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1.2.4 Delivery

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1.2.5 Stock Transfer

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1.3 Available-to-Promise in Industry Scenarios

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1.4 Available-to-Promise in SAP Business Suite

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1.4.1 Available-to-Promise in SAP ERP

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1.4.2 Global Available-to-Promise in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization

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1.5 SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise

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1.5.1 Solution Strategy

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1.5.2 Key Functionalities

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1.5.3 Integration with Other Modules

49

1.5.4 Deployment Options

49

1.5.5 Advanced Available-to-Promise Business Use Cases

50

1.5.6 Advanced Available-to-Promise Implementation Approach

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1.5.7 Key Benefits

54

1.6 Comparing Available-to-Promise Options in SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA

55

1.7 Summary

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2 Setting Up SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise

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2.1 Available-to-Promise in Order-to-Cash

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2.2 Configuring Advanced Available-to-Promise for Specific Scenarios

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2.2.1 Sales Requirements

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2.2.2 Delivery Requirements

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2.2.3 Stock Transfer Movements

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2.2.4 Planned Orders and Production Orders

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2.2.5 Reservations/Goods Movement

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2.3 Advanced Available-to-Promise Configuration Overview

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2.3.1 Availability Checking Group

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2.3.2 Supply Demand-Based Capability Check

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2.3.3 Product Availability Check

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2.4 Central Functions

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2.4.1 Business Roles for SAP Fiori Applications for Available-to-Promise in SAP S/4HANA

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2.4.2 Advanced Available-to-Promise Characteristic Catalog

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2.4.3 Object and Value Determination

93

2.5 Summary

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3 Transportation and Shipment Scheduling in SAP S/4HANA

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3.1 Overview of Transportation and Delivery Scheduling

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3.2 Delivery Scheduling and Transportation Scheduling

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3.2.1 Scheduling Menu Paths

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3.2.2 Transportation Scheduling Lead Times

98

3.2.3 Delivery Scheduling Lead Times

98

3.3 Business Process Scheduling

103

3.3.1 Entities

104

3.3.2 Configuration

105

3.3.3 Flexible Working Times and Durations for Activities

107

3.4 Summary

110

4 Product Availability Check

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4.1 What Is Product Availability Check?

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4.2 Key Concepts of Product Availability Check

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4.2.1 Calculation of Available Quantities

112

4.2.2 Scope of Availability Check

113

4.2.3 Scheduling

113

4.2.4 Delivery Options

114

4.2.5 Delivery Group

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4.2.6 Check at Storage Location

115

4.2.7 Check at Batch

115

4.2.8 Replenishment Lead Time

116

4.2.9 Quantity Distribution

118

4.2.10 Temporary Quantity Assignment

120

4.2.11 Supply Protection

120

4.2.12 Segmentation

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4.3 Review Availability Check Result

122

4.4 Setting Up the Product Availability Check

125

4.5 Business Case Studies

127

4.5.1 Scenario 1: Product Availability Check Considering Future Supplies

127

4.5.2 Scenario 2: Product Availability Check with Delivery Group

128

4.5.3 Scenario 3: Component Checks for Production Order

128

4.6 Summary

130

5 Product Allocation

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5.1 Overview

131

5.2 End-to-End Process Flow

132

5.3 Key Product Allocation Concepts

134

5.4 Business Scenario Example

136

5.5 Setting Up Product Allocations

139

5.5.1 Configure Product Allocation

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5.5.2 Manage Product Allocation Planning Data

143

5.5.3 Manage Product Allocation Sequences

145

5.5.4 Assign Product to Product Allocation

149

5.6 Additional Business Scenarios

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5.6.1 Sales Allocation with Alternative Sequence (Logical OR)

150

5.6.2 Sales Allocation with Constraints (Logical AND)

153

5.6.3 Sales Allocation with Multiple Products Consuming the Same Allocation

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5.6.4 Capacity Allocation: Transportation Capacity

158

5.6.5 Capacity Allocation: Manufacturing Capacity

162

5.7 Product Allocation Analytics

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5.8 Summary

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6 Supply Protection

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6.1 Key Concepts of Supply Protection

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6.1.1 Core (Horizontal) Protection

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6.1.2 Prioritized (Vertical) Protection

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6.1.3 Combined Core and Prioritized Protection

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6.1.4 Supply Protection Consumption

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6.1.5 Supply Protection over the Planning Horizon

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6.1.6 Integrating Supply Protection with Other Available-to-Promise Processes

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6.2 Setting Up Supply Protection

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6.3 Business Scenarios

184

6.3.1 Combined Core and Prioritized Protection for a Single Time Period

184

6.3.2 Combined Core and Prioritized Protection for a Weekly Bucket

187

6.4 Best Practices for Supply Protection

190

6.5 Summary

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7 Alternative-Based Confirmation

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7.1 Overview

197

7.2 Key Concepts

198

7.3 Business Scenario Example

199

7.4 Substitution Master Data

201

7.4.1 Manage Substitution Reasons

201

7.4.2 Manage Substitution Groups

202

7.4.3 Manage Substitution Controls

203

7.4.4 Manage Substitutions

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7.4.5 Manage Exclusions

208

7.5 Setting Up Alternative-Based Confirmation

209

7.5.1 Manage Characteristic Combinations

210

7.5.2 Configure Alternative Determination

213

7.5.3 Configure Substitution Strategy

216

7.5.4 Manage Access Sequences: Substitutions

219

7.5.5 Configure Alternative Control

221

7.6 Additional Business Scenarios

222

7.6.1 Product Substitution with Exclusion

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7.6.2 Plant Substitution with Substitution Master Data with Lead Indicator

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7.6.3 Plant Substitution with Substitution Control

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7.6.4 Plant Substitution with Rating Attributes and Hard Constraint

230

7.6.5 Product and Plant Substitution

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7.7 Summary

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8 Backorder Processing

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8.1 Key Concepts in Backorder Processing

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8.1.1 Backorder Processing Segment

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8.1.2 Confirmation Strategies

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8.1.3 Backorder Processing Variant

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8.1.4 Fallback Variant

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8.1.5 Global Segment

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8.2 Business Scenario: Backorder Processing

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8.3 Setting Up Backorder Processing

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8.3.1 Manage Characteristic Catalogs App

246

8.3.2 Configure BOP Segment App

246

8.3.3 Configure Custom BOP Sorting App

250

8.3.4 Configure BOP Variant App

251

8.3.5 Schedule BOP Run App

254

8.3.6 Monitor BOP Run App

256

8.4 Business Scenario: Release for Delivery

256

8.5 Setting Up Release for Delivery

260

8.6 Summary

262

9 Supply Assignment

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9.1 What Is Supply Assignment?

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9.2 Key Concepts of Supply Assignment

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9.2.1 Supply Assignment Rule

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9.2.2 Supply Sorting Rules

267

9.2.3 Proportional Assignment

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9.2.4 Execution of Supply Assignment

269

9.2.5 Manage Assignments

269

9.2.6 Integration of Supply Assignment to Other Processes

272

9.3 Setting Up Supply Assignment

273

9.3.1 Enhancement to Master Data

273

9.3.2 Cross-Application Configuration

274

9.4 Supply Assignment Analytics

275

9.4.1 Supply and Demand Cockpit

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9.4.2 Supply Demand Overview: All Documents

277

9.4.3 Supply Demand Overview: Detailed Analysis

278

9.4.4 Supply Demand Overview: Flexible Analysis

278

9.4.5 Monitor Supply Assignment Demand

279

9.5 Business Case Studies

280

9.5.1 Scenario 1: Supply Assignment Process via Backorder Processing

280

9.5.2 Scenario 2: Supply Assignment with Proportional Distribution

284

9.6 Summary

285

10 Supply Creation-Based Confirmation

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10.1 Key Concepts

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10.1.1 Supply Demand-Based Capability Check

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10.1.2 Product Availability Check with Supply Creation

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10.1.3 Production Planning-Based Availability Check with Supply Creation

291

10.1.4 Integration into Planning and Supply Creation

296

10.2 Configuring Supply Creation-Based Confirmations

297

10.2.1 Configure Supply Demand-Based Capability Check

297

10.2.2 Configure Enhanced Check Methods

298

10.2.3 Advanced Planning

299

10.3 Business Use Case Examples

309

10.3.1 Use Case for Supply Creation-Based Availability Check

309

10.3.2 Partial Availability for Finished Product and Planned Component

310

10.3.3 Partial Availability for Finished Product, Late Availability for Planned Component, and Partial Availability for Checked Component

314

10.4 Summary

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11 Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise

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11.1 Available-to-Promise Characteristic Catalog and Extension

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11.1.1 Maintain Characteristic Catalog

318

11.1.2 Extend Characteristic Catalog

321

11.2 Business Add-Ins in Advanced Available-to-Promise

322

11.2.1 Business Add-Ins in Alternative-Based Confirmations

322

11.2.2 Business Add-Ins in Product Allocation

324

11.2.3 Business Add-Ins in Release for Delivery

325

11.3 Application Programming Interfaces

326

11.3.1 Basic Product Availability Info

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11.3.2 Product Availability Info

330

11.3.3 Product Allocation Object

333

11.3.4 Product Allocation Sequence

334

11.3.5 Supply Availability Protection Plan

335

11.3.6 Substitution Master Data

335

11.4 Summary

336

12 Business Scenarios

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12.1 Backorder Processing with Plant and Product Substitution

337

12.2 Backorder Processing with Sales and Capacity Product Allocations

339

12.3 Product Allocation with Supply Protection

344

12.4 Product Availability Check with Product Substitution and Product Allocations

347

12.5 Summary

349

13 What’s Ahead for SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise

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13.1 Roadmap for Advanced Available-to-Promise

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13.2 Trends and Future Direction

356

13.3 Summary

361