• Introductions, APO Overview
• Overview of Demand Planning Concept
• Datamart, info-cubes & Demand Planning
• Planning area and Planning Books
• Macros & Notes
• Interactive Planning
• Statistical toolbox, Promotions and Life Cycle Planning
• Mass Processing and Release of Plans
• Exception Processing and Alert Generation

Supply Network Planning / Core Interface (CIF)

• Overview of Supply Planning Concept
• Supply Planning, Interactive Supply Planning, Integration with other SCM components
• Planning Methods: Heuristics, Optimization & CTM
• Deployment
• Transport Load Builder
• Releasing Supply Plans to DP, PPDS, ECC
• CIF Core Interface : Introduction to Architecture of Integration
• Master Data, Integration to R/3
• Planning in ECC - APO with Integration Model Generation
• Initial & Change Transfers, Background Jobs
• Monitoring & Handling CIF Errors
• Comparison & Reconciliation

Global Available-to-Promise:

• Overview of Availability Management in ECC-APO
• Principles and configuration of Availability Check
• Check using Product Allocations
• Advanced Methods
• Rule based Check
• Multi-Level ATP
• Explanation & Simulation Feature
• Global ATP/OPTP interface

Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling:

• Overview of PPDS, Prerequisites, Prod. Planning with ECC
• Master Data & Transaction data Integration with ECC, SNP, DP, gATP
• Demand Management, Requirements & Sales Orders in PPDS
• Production Planning Strategies
• (Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock)
• Planning Heuristics
• Capacity Requirements, Capacity Planning / Leveling
• Optimizer
• Exception Processing, Alert Generation
• Free Discussions, Questions
• Consulting Practice Planning
• Further Reference Sources
• Conclusion

TP/VS Overview

• Master data for TP/VS and Master data for SNP
• TP/Vs cycle (End to start)
• Manage transportation
• TP/VS Planning Board
• TP/VS Optimization
• Scheduling
• Carrier Selection
• Collaboration
• Dynamic Route Determination
• Freight costing
• Freight reporting.(BW integration)
• Carrier performance
• Integration points with A/P
• Integrations points with order management
• Integration points with MM(Material Management)
• CIF (Core interface options) system navigation
• Process overviews and configurations
• for all the above
• Materials if any ? configuration guides building blocks/Bpp's etc