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Modeling for successful product and materials planning.
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Barry Walton |
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I have been a member of the CWG for more than 10 years. I contributed to the design specification of the IPC and provided consulting expertise on to several major SAP customer implementations. I was the principle designer of the VC product model for the HP Server Business unit and a senior internal consultant at HP on SAP PDM and VC modeling for more than 10 years. I now provide consulting services to companies implementing the VC and/or IPC. I also provide training and advice on the cross-functional requirements for successfully implementing IPC and VC models. |
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Barry Walton Consulting, Auburn, California |
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| Abstract | The SAP Variant Configurator (VC) and the Internet Pricing Configurator (IPC) have powerful modeling capabilities. These include the ability to configure solution products for the supply chain (SAP ERP and suppliers). Such products typically require many characteristics to configure the product from a customer’s perspective, but may also require supply-chain relevant characteristics (inferred by the VC/IPC from the customer’s configuration result) to support engineering, manufacturing, and materials/product planning). While the power of the VC and IPC provide many modeling choices, these must be carefully implemented to enable a planner to successfully forecast the demand for the components (using SAP ERP or APO). Careful design of the model can dramatically improve both the system performance and the plannability. I will suggest some best practices and does/don’ts for simple and complex configurable products and multi-level configurable product models in SAP ERP (and by implication CRM and APO). |
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Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced - Modeler, Product Mgr, Configuration Dir/Mgr, Gen Audience |
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| Presentation |
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