Characteristics are used in SAP as attributes, e.g. to specify the
configuration of products or the properties of batches. In many
industries – engineering, automotive, mill, pharmaceutical and foods
to name the most typical – supply chain planning has to consider
these characteristics. APO offers many different functionalities for
planning with characteristics, where each of the functionalities has
some prerequisites and incompatibilities. This book offers help and
advice for the basic design of the implementation by explaining the
processes and scenarios (process chains) for planning with
characteristics, the functionalities for planning with
characteristics in APO including their prerequisites and
incompatibilities and the entities, dependencies and system
configuration determinants for planning with characteristics in R/3
and APO. This book is based on the releases R/3 4.7 and mySAP SCM
4.1.