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CTM Time Stream
This post was republished to SAP SCM Planning at 4:26:23 PM 8/31/2009 CTM Time Stream Accountf63258a2-9ca5-4f95-a692-ef80116aec76 Category ; How the CTM Time Stream Works This is a simple configuration...
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SNP CTM Supply Categories
What Are They? CTM Supply Categories are ways of segmenting and categorizing stock. Essentially the default values setup whether the stock is Normal, Target, or Excess. These appear to be a very simple...
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SNP CTM Search Strategies
What Are They? Search Strategies use CTM Supply Categories. They assign a sequence to each supply category. In order to fulfill a demand, the system then searches the supply categories in the sequence...
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CTM Make Key Figures Available
What Are They? (You use this process if you want to use the time-dependent safety stocks and days’ supplies (that you can define in the interactive planning for Supply Network Planning (SNP)) in...
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Customer Prioritization and CTM
Prioritization in Capable to Match (CTM) works on the principle of running some customers through the planning process, and allowing them to have inventory pegged to their requirements before others....
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Aggregated CTM
What Is It? Aggregated planning in CTM allow for the same CTM allocation functionality to be run against hierarchies or aggregations of the model. These aggregations are location / product, resources...
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Using CTM With No Priorities
Background After spending most of my time on CTM projects where prioritization functionality was highly emphasized, it was disarming to recently come upon a company using CTM with no priorities at all....
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Troubleshooting SNP CTM
Background CTM has an enormous number of settings. There are more settings and more areas of customization than either the cost optimizer or the SNP heuristic (unlike PP/DS SNP only has two heuristics...
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Should All the Locations in the Supply Network be Set as Valid for All Products?
Background Its is sometimes the case that a very poor practice is followed with respect to setting up the supply network. This decision, which I have now encountered several times involves setting up...
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CTM – Demand Prioritization or Supply Prioritization?
Background There is an excellent point brought up in the book Real Optimization with SAP APO as to the limitations with respect to CTM. This highlights the fact that while CTM can provide sophisticated...
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