Materials Planning with SAP Erp (Hardcover)

PART I ... Materials Planning Basics ... 15 1 ... Materials Planning Basics ... 17 1.1 ... The Process of Materials Planning ... 18 1.2 ... The Materials Controller ... 21 1.3 ... Strategic and Tactical Materials Planning ... 23 1.4 ... Portfolio Segmentation for Decision Making ... 29 1.5 ... Lean and Agile Supply Chains ... 37 1.6 ... Summary ... 43 2 ... The Past and the Future of Materials Planning ... 45 2.1 ... Past Problems with Materials Requirements Planning ... 45 2.2 ... Today's Problems with Material Requirements Planning ... 52 2.3 ... A Word on Customizing ... 53 2.4 ... The Old Paradigm and the New ... 55 2.5 ... Future Potential in Operations, Supply Chain, and Materials Management ... 60 2.6 ... Planning the Future with an Unconstrained Supply Plan ... 64 2.7 ... Summary ... 71 3 ... Building Blocks of Materials Planning ... 73 3.1 ... Modeling ... 74 3.2 ... Strategic and Tactical Materials Planning ... 90 3.3 ... Scientific Theories and Global Integration ... 94 3.4 ... Summary ... 99 PART II ... Materials Planning in SAP ERP ... 101 4 ... Principles of Effective Materials Planning ... 103 4.1 ... Supply Chain Strategy and Performance Boundaries ... 105 4.2 ... Developing User Guidelines and a Policy Playbook ... 115 4.3 ... Setting Control Limits ... 117 4.4 ... The Competent Materials Controller ... 120 4.5 ... Summary ... 124 5 ... Prioritized Portfolio Management ... 125 5.1 ... Portfolio Basics in SAP ... 125 5.2 ... Responsibilities and Accountability ... 132 5.3 ... Using Buckets ... 137 5.4 ... Monitoring Your Portfolio ... 138 5.5 ... Summary ... 149 6 ... Automated and Periodic Policy Setting ... 151 6.1 ... Employing Strategies and Policies in an Enterprise ... 152 6.2 ... Segmenting a Materials Portfolio ... 154 6.3 ... Replenishment Policies ... 161 6.4 ... Planning Policies ... 208 6.5 ... Setting Policy ... 243 6.6 ... Using the SAP Add-On Tools for Segmentation and Policy Setting ... 245 6.7 ... Summary ... 251 7 ... Intelligent Exception Monitoring ... 253 7.1 ... Exception Monitoring in SAP ERP ... 254 7.2 ... Building a Monitoring System for Exceptional Situations ... 274 7.3 ... Using the SAP Add-On Tool MRP Exception Monitor ... 295 7.4 ... Summary ... 302 8 ... Sustainable Inventory Optimization ... 305 8.1 ... Performing Inventory Analysis ... 308 8.2 ... Employing Inventory Strategies with Meaningful Key Performance Indicators ... 351 8.3 ... Making Inventory Optimization Sustainable ... 360 8.4 ... SAP Add-On Tools for Inventory Optimization ... 365 8.5 ... Summary ... 372 PART III ... Evaluating, Measuring, and Improving Materials Planning ... 375 9 ... Key Performance and Supply Chain Indicators ... 377 9.1 ... The Balanced Scorecard ... 378 9.2 ... The Supply Chain Performance Index Framework ... 381 9.3 ... Putting It All Together ... 399 9.4 ... SAP Add-On Tools for Performance Measurement ... 402 9.5 ... Summary ... 406 10 ... Traditional Inefficiencies ... 409 10.1 ... Dealing with an Unmanageable Amount of Exception Messages ... 411 10.2 ... An Isolated Sales Department ... 414 10.3 ... A Buyer without a Cause ... 421 10.4 ... Fiddling with Policy ... 421 10.5 ... Capacity Planning ... 422 10.6 ... Using Sales Orders for Intercompany Stock Transfers ... 423 10.7 ... Chasing Demand ... 426 10.8 ... Hiding the Buffer ... 427 10.9 ... The Reorder Point Dilemma When Sourcing from Another Plant ... 428 10.10 ... The Hang-from-the-Ceiling Strategy ... 429 10.11 ... Summary ... 430 11 ... Improvement and Optimization Programs ... 433 11.1 ... Benchmarking the Current State ... 434 11.2 ... Developing Improvement Initiatives ... 443 11.3 ... Measuring Progress ... 446 11.4 ... Summary ... 449 PART IV ... Modeling Materials Planning ... 451 12 ... Scienti