DANIEL C. WOOD is a senior business system analyst for supply chain management at Intel Corporation; he also serves as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Information Systems at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business.

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xiiiTable of Abbreviations xvPart 1 Cultural Background: The Business and Technical Context for SCM 11 How to Use This Book: APO as a Mind Map 3One Book, Many Curriculums: Custom Recommendations for Reading Order 5Included and Excluded: Scope of this Text 62 SCM Architecture 11Enterprise Landscape for Planning in SCM 11SCM Applications and Components 14Simulating the Supply Chain 20APO Tools for Users 223 Supply Chain Landscape 34Supply Chain Landscape 34Planning Supply Chain Disciplines 40Supply Chain Data Pipelines 47Integrated, Wall-to-Outside-the-Wall Supply Chain Solution 494 Advice to the Executive Considering SAP APO and SCM 50Six Short Executive Lessons in ERP 51Profile of an SAP SCM Project with a High Likelihood of Success 59Part 2 Stocks and Bases: Master Data SCM 615 Supply Chain Management Master Data 63Locations and Calendars 63Products 70Resources and Work Centers 84Production Process Models and Run Time Objects 96Transportation Lanes 108External Procurement Relationships 111Quota Arrangements 116Models and Planning Versions 119Transactional Data 124Master Data Recipes 1276 Analytical Master Data: BW Primer Part I 131SCM versus ‘‘Analytical’’ Master Data 131Star Schema 133BW, APO, and Analytical Data Objects 135BW in the SCM Data Mart 138Setting Up Analytical Master Data 1387 Core Interface 146When R/3 Is Not the Transactional Data Management System 147Using R/3 with APO 147Basic Integration Model Configuration 148Part 3 Entrees: APO Planning Modules 1618 APO User Interfaces and the PP/DS Module 163General APO User Interfaces 164PP/DS Context 202PP/DS Master Data and CIF 205Using PP/DS 208Configuring PP/DS 214Detailed Scheduling and PP/DS User Interfaces 2229 Demand Planning Module 230DP Master Data and CIF 231Using DP 232Configuring DP 235Univariate Forecast 240Demand Planning Configuration Recipe 25010 Supply Network Planning 251SNP Master Data and CIF 253Using SNP 254Configuring SNP 257SNP Configuration Recipe 271Part 4 Beyond Planning: Analytics, Collaboration, and Keys for Success 27311 BW Primer Part II 275Not Just a Data Warehouse: Reengineering ERP 275Using BEx 278BW Enterprise and BW Data Mart 281Profile of a Full-Powered APO Deployment 28212 Inventory Collaboration Hub and APO Collaboration 285B2B Context of ICH and Collaboration 285ICH Master Data 289Using ICH and APO Collaboration 290ICH Data Pipelines 29413 The Lucky Chapter: Of Boats and Software—Four Keys to Unlocking SCM 296‘‘Keys’’: To Neuter a Cliche 297It’s Only a Key If You Know It’s a Key 298The Keys 299What Would You Pay For Wal-Mart’s or UPS’s Supply Chain? 310Index 313

“Wood has put together an excellent resource for users who want to understand more of what they can do with SAP SCM" (Supply Management, Thursday 6th September 2007)