Advance Planning and optimization or simply SAP APO is a netweaver product which has wide range of application in the planning process at the ERP world. Recently we had an implementation of APO for a wood processing industry. The modules were DP and SNP. The challenge was to identify the roles and finalize the authorization control plan. After a series of meetings with client at onsite and APO consultant we concluded on the following point.
1. The authorization has to be based upon planning book, The authorization object is C_APO_PB
2. The roles of users are the following
- Collaborative Forecast Planner
- Common Stock Planner
- Consignment Stock Planner
- Convert-to-Order Planner
- Demand Planner
- Demand Planning Key User
- Forecast Entry Person
- S&OP Meeting
- Sales Management Team
- Sales Planner
- Stock Planning Key User
- Supply Planner
- Supply Planning Key User
- VMI Planner
The users were created using SECATT from a remote system, but the role creation , profile generation and assigning to users can never be automated using SECATT. They are heavy activities , hence system can throw error which couldn't be rectified
