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David Bucher, Joern Meissner
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| Abstract |
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Companies today generally hold several thousands SKUs (stock-keeping units) in
stock. With an ever increasing trend towards highly customized products, the
number of SKUs held by companies is likely to increase even more in the future.
For each of the SKUs held in stock, a decision has to be made on how to configure
each module of the SKU’s inventory system. Doing this for each SKU individually
seems to be an unfeasible task, given the large numbers of SKUs held in stock
by most companies. Therefore, these companies configure inventory systems not
on a SKU-basis but on a group basis, where the groups are usually determined
using an ABC/XYZ analysis. The configuration using such a rough group basis
for several thousand SKUs does not allow for individually customized inventory
systems and therefore might not exploit the implemented inventory methods in
a software package in an optimal way. In this research project, decision systems
allowing an automated inventory system configuration in SAP ERP and SAP APO
at the SKU-level are developed. The SAP ERP corporate software package is the
market leader for Enterprise Resource Planning systems, offering a wide range of
inventory methods for the relevant inventory system modules. The advanced planning
and scheduling system of SAP, Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO),
provides additional inventory methods that can be chosen for the configuration in
the inventory system modules. |
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Material Resource Planning, SAP ERP/APO, Inventory Management, Parameter Configuration
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Working Paper |
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| Download |
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www.meiss.com/download/SAP-Bucher-Meissner.pdf
(563 kb) |
| Supplement |
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Configuration of the SAP MRP Strategy Parameter
www.meiss.com/download/SAP-MRP-Strategy-Parameter.pdf
(118 kb) |
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Configuration of the SAP MRP Procedure Parameter
www.meiss.com/download/SAP-MRP-Procedure-Parameter.pdf
(123 kb) |
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Configuration of the SAP Safety Stock Parameter
www.meiss.com/download/SAP-Safety-Stock-Parameter.pdf
(110 kb) |
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Configuration of the SAP Lot Sizing Parameter
www.meiss.com/download/SAP-Lot-Sizing-Parameter.pdf
(110 kb) |
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