AFS SD Process Overview

Introduction to AFS Processes

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AFS SD Process: Overview

• Introduction:– Apparel Business Overview– Uniqueness of SAP AFS Solution– AFS Master Data– Pricing, Seasons, Value Added Services (VAS)– AFS ATP– Allocation Run– Delivery and Billing– Mass Document Changes– Special Order Types

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Objectives

• Objective:After completing this chapter you will be able to:

– Understand the need for SAP AFS Solution– Know the basic overview of different AFS SD processes– Would be able to work on SAP AFS solution

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• Do you know the basic ERP SD processes?• Do you know about SAP AFS Solution?• Do you know the need for separate solution for Apparel and

Footwear from SAP?

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Apparel Business Process Overview

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Uniqueness of Apparel Processes

• Due to seasonal nature of the Apparel Business , huge lead time is required for the sales order processing

• A normal material does not have much significance nor is useful as the other features like size, color and other characteristics are important

• All the order processing would be at schedule line level instead of item level in the standard ERP solution

• Due to the above necessity, schedule line has more significance in this industry process

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SAP AFS Solution - Highlights

• To store and handle the unique material characteristics in the apparel like size, color etc. special Master Data consisting of Grids, Categories are present

• Due to the above requirement, SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) is different than the normal ECC solution

• The above unique master data consisting of Grids, Categories handles huge amount of SKU data effectively than Std. Variants

• As SKU and other information are processed at schedule line level, it stores more than just the delivery dates as in Standard ECC

• Only remaining SAP Industry Add-on Solution outside the ECC 6.0 framework due to all the above unique reasons

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Master Data Overview:AFS Grids and Categories

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Enhancements in AFS Material Master

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Demand Management : AFS Sales Order Cycle

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AFS Order Structure

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AFS Sales Order and Master Data

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Seasons : Business Overview

• Due to seasonal nature of products which would be sold, we need a capability to indicate when a material can be ordered or delivered

• Also, we may need to assign these periods different for different customers or for a group of customers based on the business needs

• Seasons functionality helps in achieving the above requirement

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Seasonal Processing in Sales Order

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Value Added Services : Business Overview

• Apparel products are not sold as such. Many customers require very unique packaging or additional services done on them.

• Need a mechanism to assign or incorporate these additional services and also need to calculate the cost incurred for the same in order to determine the final selling price for the final goods sold

• All the above requirement is handled by Value Added Services

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Value Added Services in Sales Orders

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Prepacks and Assortments : Business Overview

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AFS SD BOM Prepack

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AFS SD BOM Assortment

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Demand Management : Inventory Sourcing (ATP)

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AFS ATP Architecture and Logic

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Sales Scenario Rescheduling

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Allocation Run : Business Overview

• Due to long lead time between the order creation and the order delivery, a mechanism is required to reserve the goods as they are produced against the orders to ensure proper delivery of the goods

• Ability to transfer the reservation of goods from the future receipts (Purchase Order, Production Order) to the Batch Stock to ensure they are delivered

• Need a mechanism to deliver the products for high priority / special customers always at any cost

• Allocation Run ensures all the above can be achieved

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Allocation Run : Process Flow Components

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Allocation Run to Delivery

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Deliveries in AFS System

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Billing Documents in AFS System

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Mass Document Change

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Rush Order

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Consignment Processing

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Multi Store Order : Scenario

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Contracts

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Third-Party Order Processing in AFS

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PTO and MTO Process in AFS

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AFS SD Process Overview: Summary

• You have come to the end of this chapter. Take a look at the key points.

— AFS Solution is an Industry Add-on solution from SAP — All the Standard ERP processes are available to be executed. In

addition other processes specific to apparel industry works in conjunction with the ERP process.

— Seasons, Value Added Services (VAS), Allocation Run, Multi-Store Order are some of the available processes unique for the effective Apparel Business.

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AFS SD Process Overview: Source

• Help.SAP.com->SAP for Industries->SAP for Consumer Products->SAP Apparel Footwear Solution

• ICP Course Materials from SAP – ICP 310, ICP 320

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