SAP Sales & Operations Planning (LO-LIS-PLN)

Sales & Operations Planning (LO-LIS-PLN) is an article provided by SAP AG. This SAP SD article is intended for SAP System Administrators, Sales and Distribution (SD) developer and SAP technology Consultants.
This SAP SD article explains you about SAP SOP (Sales & Operations Planning) and its use to plan resources to meet company's target effectively. With the help of this article you can learn SAP SOP's flexibility in forecasting and planning sales, production and achieving supply chain targets. Moreover this SAP SD SOP article explains you its features such as standard SOP and flexible Planning with its integration in SAP LIS, SAP PP and SAP CO.
Following are the few topics covered in this SAP SD SOP document.
  • Sales & Operations Planning (LO-LIS-PLN)
  • What Is Sales & Operations Planning?
  • What Is Sales & Operations Planning?
  • Basics of Sales & Operations Planning
  • Information Flow Between SOP and Other R/3 Applications
  • Planning Methods
  • Planning Methods at a Glance
  • Master Data
  • What Is a Planning Hierarchy?
  • What Is a Product Group?
  • Master Data Graphics
  • Planning Types and Macros
  • Creating a Planning Type
  • Defining a Macro in a Planning Type
  • Translating Planning Type, Freely Defined Line, and Macro Texts
  • Assigning an Event to a Planning Type
  • Viewing a Planning Type in Different Formats
  • Events
  • Examples of Events
  • Planning Table: Structure, Navigation, and Display
  • Structure and Concepts of the Planning Table
  • Period Units
  • Switching Display Formats in Flexible Planning
  • Switching Display Formats in Standard SOP
  • Setting the Decimal Places of Freely Defined Lines
  • Setting the Decimal Places of Key Figures
  • Selecting Columns in the Planning Table
  • Selecting Details in the Planning Table
  • Switching Units in the Planning Table
  • Choosing Header Info
  • Calculating Row Totals
  • Creating a Long Text for a Period
  • Creating a Long Text for a Planning Version
  • Maintaining/Displaying a Planning Version
  • Viewing Data in Microsoft Excel
  • Reporting in the Planning Table
  • Displaying Selection Criteria in the Planning Table
  • Planning Table: Data Maintenance
  • Macros
  • Working with the 0 Column of the Planning Table
  • Dis aggregating a Line Using the Proportional Factors
  • Fixing Key Figure Values
  • Interactive Graphics in the Planning Table
  • Distributing Data in the Planning Table
  • Copying Data from One Information Structure to Another
  • Sales Plans in Standard SOP
  • Production Plans in Standard SOP
  • Setting an Opening Stock Level Manually in Standard SOP
  • Planning Table: the Forecast
  • The Forecast in SOP
  • Forecasting Online
  • Forecast Profiles
  • Forecast Versions
  • Forecast Formulas
  • How to Carry Out Resource Leveling
  • Rough-Cut Planning Profiles
  • Resource Leveling
  • Version Management
  • Copying a Version to another Version of the Same Information Structure
  • Deleting a Planning Version of an Information Structure
  • Aggregation and Disaggregation
  • Ways to Aggregate and Dis aggregate in Standard SOP
  • Ways to Aggregate and Dis aggregate in Consistent Planning
  • Ways to Aggregate and Dis aggregate in Level-By-Level Planning
  • Ways to Aggregate and Dis aggregate in Delta Planning
  • Mass Processing in SOP
  • How to Run the Forecast with Mass Processing
  • How to Copy Key Figure Values Between Information Structures with Mass Processing
  • How to Execute a Macro with Mass Processing
  • How to Transfer Data to Demand Management with Mass Processing
  • How to Copy a Version with Mass Processing
  • How to Delete a Version with Mass Processing
  • How to Set Opening Stock Levels with Mass Processing
  • How to Check a Mass Processing Job
  • Mass Job Reports
  • Defining User Methods
  • Transferring SOP Data to Other R/3 Applications
  • Transfer to Demand Management
  • Transferring SOP Data to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
  • Use of SOP Data in Cost Center Accounting
  • Transferring Standard SOP Data to Activity-Based Costing
  • Application Link Enabling (ALE)
  • Example of ALE Implementation
  • Reporting
  • Product Group Breakdown
  • Product Group Usage
  • Material Usage
  • Planning Situation
  • Standard Analysis for Information Structure
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