Business Drivers

In the many SAP Advanced Planning & Optimisation (APO) Supply Network Planning (SNP) implementations that Olivehorse has been involved with over the years, we have identified a common mid-term production planning issue – especially in the consumer products and food industries.

The standard APO planning solution will plan to demand, however, such a plan will usually not be efficient to produce due to cost of changeovers and reduced capacity utilisation etc. There is therefore, a requirement to group production orders of different SKUs together into the same period to ensure that a more feasible and efficient plan is created in the mid-term. The standard solution in APO, whether it be Heuristics, Capable-to-Match or Optimiser, does not support the concept of Group Planning.

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