SAP APO AND SAP LIVECACHE'S NEW BACKUP AND RECOVERABILITY FEATU

HIGH-PERFORMANCE

Summary

 This article from the SAP Insider discusses the demands on a supply chain system that require analyzing huge amounts of data in near realmySAP™ Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) offers a way to solve this dilemma of processing where the data is and processing on ma

memory for performance: SAP® APO (SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer) with SAP liveCache . SAP APO increases the speed of transactisupply chain planning many times over. Now, with the newest version of SAP liveCache and SAP APO, SAP customers will continue to see hiperformance and availability, but they will also find simpler and more powerful tools for full point-of-failure recovery of planning data.

By Joerg Hoffmeister

19 Dec 2003

 

Planning and decision-making for a company's supply chain - from determining when your supplier should send the next widget to creatingdetailed, long-term production schedule - involves analyzing huge amounts of data from your own business processes and from the partneryour supply chain. In contrast to typical ERP data models, the demands on such planning systems require models designed to process vastof data in near real time.

 Thus companies often find themselves in a data-processing dilemma: for any heavy-duty planning solution to achieve acceptable performanthese circumstances, processing must be done where the data is. To get another performance boost, processing must be done on main me The first paradigm omits extra network roundtrips, the second one avoids unnecessary disk access. And then, of course, efficient backup anrecovery of this critical data is key.

mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) offers a way out of this dilemma: SAP APO (SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer) with SAliveCache . SAP APO increases the speed of transactions for supply chain planning many times over. Now, with the newest version of SAP liv 

and SAP APO, SAP customers will continue to see high performance and availability, but they will also find simpler and more powerful toolspoint-of-failure recovery of planning data.

High Performance and Unique Point-of-Failure Recovery

SAP APO offers planning functionality for strategic, tactical, and operational planning of supply chains. Combined with SAPliveCache , it helpcustomers respond to the data-processing challenges of supply chain planning.

Designed to improve the flow of information, SAP APO offers real-time and collaborative decision processes, advanced planning, and optimi

part of the SAP system to cover long- and short-term planning issues, such as supply network planning, demand planning, and production p(For more information, see the article "Supply Chain Planning with mySAP SCM" in SAP Insider.)

SAP APO pulls data out of your mySAP SCM solution and other applications and transforms and stores it to its own object- and network-basmodel, with its own representation in its own database server. The system can either work off the SAP APO database server for more basicdata, or off SAP liveCache for high-performance, high-memory planning issues. Application servers can also handle multiple connections to t

different databases (see Figure 1), meaning that multiple processes and applications can connect simultaneously with different systems durisame session, and can work on data in either SAP liveCache or the SAP APO database server.

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