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Preface
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Objective of This Book
15
Target Audience
16
How to Read This Book
16
Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction to Order Promising
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1.1 Business Challenges in Order Promising
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1.2 Available-to-Promise in Business Processes
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1.2.1 Order to Cash
21
1.2.2 Supply Chain Planning
23
1.2.3 Production
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1.2.4 Delivery
25
1.2.5 Stock Transfer
25
1.3 Available-to-Promise in Industry Scenarios
25
1.4 Available-to-Promise in SAP Business Suite
27
1.4.1 Available-to-Promise in SAP ERP
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1.4.2 Global Available-to-Promise in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization
28
1.5 SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise
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1.5.1 Solution Strategy
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1.5.2 Key Functionalities
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1.5.3 Integration with Other Modules
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1.5.4 Deployment Options
49
1.5.5 Advanced Available-to-Promise Business Use Cases
50
1.5.6 Advanced Available-to-Promise Implementation Approach
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1.5.7 Key Benefits
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1.6 Comparing Available-to-Promise Options in SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA
55
1.7 Summary
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2 Setting Up SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise
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2.1 Available-to-Promise in Order-to-Cash
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2.2 Configuring Advanced Available-to-Promise for Specific Scenarios
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2.2.1 Sales Requirements
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2.2.2 Delivery Requirements
75
2.2.3 Stock Transfer Movements
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2.2.4 Planned Orders and Production Orders
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2.2.5 Reservations/Goods Movement
80
2.3 Advanced Available-to-Promise Configuration Overview
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2.3.1 Availability Checking Group
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2.3.2 Supply Demand-Based Capability Check
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2.3.3 Product Availability Check
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2.4 Central Functions
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2.4.1 Business Roles for SAP Fiori Applications for Available-to-Promise in SAP S/4HANA
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2.4.2 Advanced Available-to-Promise Characteristic Catalog
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2.4.3 Object and Value Determination
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2.5 Summary
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3 Transportation and Shipment Scheduling in SAP S/4HANA
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3.1 Overview of Transportation and Delivery Scheduling
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3.2 Delivery Scheduling and Transportation Scheduling
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3.2.1 Scheduling Menu Paths
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3.2.2 Transportation Scheduling Lead Times
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3.2.3 Delivery Scheduling Lead Times
98
3.3 Business Process Scheduling
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3.3.1 Entities
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3.3.2 Configuration
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3.3.3 Flexible Working Times and Durations for Activities
107
3.4 Summary
110
4 Product Availability Check
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4.1 What Is Product Availability Check?
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4.2 Key Concepts of Product Availability Check
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4.2.1 Calculation of Available Quantities
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4.2.2 Scope of Availability Check
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4.2.3 Scheduling
113
4.2.4 Delivery Options
114
4.2.5 Delivery Group
115
4.2.6 Check at Storage Location
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4.2.7 Check at Batch
115
4.2.8 Replenishment Lead Time
116
4.2.9 Quantity Distribution
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4.2.10 Temporary Quantity Assignment
120
4.2.11 Supply Protection
120
4.2.12 Segmentation
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4.3 Review Availability Check Result
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4.4 Setting Up the Product Availability Check
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4.5 Business Case Studies
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4.5.1 Scenario 1: Product Availability Check Considering Future Supplies
127
4.5.2 Scenario 2: Product Availability Check with Delivery Group
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4.5.3 Scenario 3: Component Checks for Production Order
128
4.6 Summary
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5 Product Allocation
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5.1 Overview
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5.2 End-to-End Process Flow
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5.3 Key Product Allocation Concepts
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5.4 Business Scenario Example
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5.5 Setting Up Product Allocations
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5.5.1 Configure Product Allocation
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5.5.2 Manage Product Allocation Planning Data
143
5.5.3 Manage Product Allocation Sequences
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5.5.4 Assign Product to Product Allocation
149
5.6 Additional Business Scenarios
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5.6.1 Sales Allocation with Alternative Sequence (Logical OR)
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5.6.2 Sales Allocation with Constraints (Logical AND)
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5.6.3 Sales Allocation with Multiple Products Consuming the Same Allocation
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5.6.4 Capacity Allocation: Transportation Capacity
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5.6.5 Capacity Allocation: Manufacturing Capacity
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5.7 Product Allocation Analytics
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5.8 Summary
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6 Supply Protection
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6.1 Key Concepts of Supply Protection
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6.1.1 Core (Horizontal) Protection
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6.1.2 Prioritized (Vertical) Protection
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6.1.3 Combined Core and Prioritized Protection
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6.1.4 Supply Protection Consumption
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6.1.5 Supply Protection over the Planning Horizon
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6.1.6 Integrating Supply Protection with Other Available-to-Promise Processes
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6.2 Setting Up Supply Protection
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6.3 Business Scenarios
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6.3.1 Combined Core and Prioritized Protection for a Single Time Period
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6.3.2 Combined Core and Prioritized Protection for a Weekly Bucket
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6.4 Best Practices for Supply Protection
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6.5 Summary
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7 Alternative-Based Confirmation
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7.1 Overview
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7.2 Key Concepts
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7.3 Business Scenario Example
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7.4 Substitution Master Data
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7.4.1 Manage Substitution Reasons
201
7.4.2 Manage Substitution Groups
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7.4.3 Manage Substitution Controls
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7.4.4 Manage Substitutions
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7.4.5 Manage Exclusions
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7.5 Setting Up Alternative-Based Confirmation
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7.5.1 Manage Characteristic Combinations
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7.5.2 Configure Alternative Determination
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7.5.3 Configure Substitution Strategy
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7.5.4 Manage Access Sequences: Substitutions
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7.5.5 Configure Alternative Control
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7.6 Additional Business Scenarios
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7.6.1 Product Substitution with Exclusion
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7.6.2 Plant Substitution with Substitution Master Data with Lead Indicator
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7.6.3 Plant Substitution with Substitution Control
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7.6.4 Plant Substitution with Rating Attributes and Hard Constraint
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7.6.5 Product and Plant Substitution
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7.7 Summary
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8 Backorder Processing
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8.1 Key Concepts in Backorder Processing
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8.1.1 Backorder Processing Segment
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8.1.2 Confirmation Strategies
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8.1.3 Backorder Processing Variant
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8.1.4 Fallback Variant
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8.1.5 Global Segment
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8.2 Business Scenario: Backorder Processing
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8.3 Setting Up Backorder Processing
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8.3.1 Manage Characteristic Catalogs App
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8.3.2 Configure BOP Segment App
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8.3.3 Configure Custom BOP Sorting App
250
8.3.4 Configure BOP Variant App
251
8.3.5 Schedule BOP Run App
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8.3.6 Monitor BOP Run App
256
8.4 Business Scenario: Release for Delivery
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8.5 Setting Up Release for Delivery
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8.6 Summary
262
9 Supply Assignment
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9.1 What Is Supply Assignment?
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9.2 Key Concepts of Supply Assignment
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9.2.1 Supply Assignment Rule
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9.2.2 Supply Sorting Rules
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9.2.3 Proportional Assignment
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9.2.4 Execution of Supply Assignment
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9.2.5 Manage Assignments
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9.2.6 Integration of Supply Assignment to Other Processes
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9.3 Setting Up Supply Assignment
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9.3.1 Enhancement to Master Data
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9.3.2 Cross-Application Configuration
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9.4 Supply Assignment Analytics
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9.4.1 Supply and Demand Cockpit
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9.4.2 Supply Demand Overview: All Documents
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9.4.3 Supply Demand Overview: Detailed Analysis
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9.4.4 Supply Demand Overview: Flexible Analysis
278
9.4.5 Monitor Supply Assignment Demand
279
9.5 Business Case Studies
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9.5.1 Scenario 1: Supply Assignment Process via Backorder Processing
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9.5.2 Scenario 2: Supply Assignment with Proportional Distribution
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9.6 Summary
285
10 Supply Creation-Based Confirmation
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10.1 Key Concepts
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10.1.1 Supply Demand-Based Capability Check
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10.1.2 Product Availability Check with Supply Creation
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10.1.3 Production Planning-Based Availability Check with Supply Creation
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10.1.4 Integration into Planning and Supply Creation
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10.2 Configuring Supply Creation-Based Confirmations
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10.2.1 Configure Supply Demand-Based Capability Check
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10.2.2 Configure Enhanced Check Methods
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10.2.3 Advanced Planning
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10.3 Business Use Case Examples
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10.3.1 Use Case for Supply Creation-Based Availability Check
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10.3.2 Partial Availability for Finished Product and Planned Component
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10.3.3 Partial Availability for Finished Product, Late Availability for Planned Component, and Partial Availability for Checked Component
314
10.4 Summary
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11 Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise
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11.1 Available-to-Promise Characteristic Catalog and Extension
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11.1.1 Maintain Characteristic Catalog
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11.1.2 Extend Characteristic Catalog
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11.2 Business Add-Ins in Advanced Available-to-Promise
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11.2.1 Business Add-Ins in Alternative-Based Confirmations
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11.2.2 Business Add-Ins in Product Allocation
324
11.2.3 Business Add-Ins in Release for Delivery
325
11.3 Application Programming Interfaces
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11.3.1 Basic Product Availability Info
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11.3.2 Product Availability Info
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11.3.3 Product Allocation Object
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11.3.4 Product Allocation Sequence
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11.3.5 Supply Availability Protection Plan
335
11.3.6 Substitution Master Data
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11.4 Summary
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12 Business Scenarios
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12.1 Backorder Processing with Plant and Product Substitution
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12.2 Backorder Processing with Sales and Capacity Product Allocations
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12.3 Product Allocation with Supply Protection
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12.4 Product Availability Check with Product Substitution and Product Allocations
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12.5 Summary
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13 What’s Ahead for SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Available-to-Promise
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13.1 Roadmap for Advanced Available-to-Promise
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13.2 Trends and Future Direction
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13.3 Summary
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The Authors
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Index
365