What is SEM?

SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) delivers end-to-end capabilities to support the entire performance management life cycle, including: Consolidated financial reporting -- With SAP SEM, you can generate consolidated financial and managerial reports for a globally distributed business or entity. The application can aggregate financial data from SAP and non-SAP systems into a single analytical reporting environment, enabling you to monitor the financial performance of individual subunits. Planning, budgeting, and forecasting -- SAP SEM helps enables you to model various planning options and use preconfigured planning software to get a quick start on operational planning tasks such as cost center planning and sales planning. The application supports traditional budgeting and rolling forecasts as well as collaborative planning. Corporate performance management and scorecards -- With SAP SEM, you can develop KPIs that support a number of popular scorecard methodologies, including balanced scorecard, economic valueadded, and activity-based costing methods. You can link operational and strategic plans and develop scorecards and performance measures based on financial and nonfinancial data. Risk management -- SAP SEM helps you identify, quantify, and analyze business risks within individual business units and manage risk-reducing activities. What is APO? Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) is a set of software applications from the German-based software company SAP for supply chain management. According to SAP literature, Advanced Planner and Optimizer is designed to help a company improve production planning, pricing, scheduling, and product shipping. APO works by getting real-time updates from retailers about customer demand. The updates are used to create APO "demand triggers" that take into account many complex variables, such as the delivery schedule of raw materials and productions cycles, to forecast the right amount of product mix the company will need to meet future customer demands. APO can be integrated with the SAPR/3 and legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. APO consists of eight application levels: network design, demand planning, supply network planning, production planning and detailed scheduling, global availability, transportation planning and vehicle scheduling, and supply chain collaboration. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ab/5ab43b4c4beb56e10000000a114084/content.htm view navigational RUNSTAT
Transaction code DB02 is to analyze and monitor database statistics (db growth, table space size , missing index & etc). 1. Check Tablespace size. By default, 6 tablespaces were created during installation & need to be monitor from overflows. Go to Current sizes / Space statistics / Freespace statistics. If PSAP[SID] tablespace size is reaching 95% level, its advisable to increase the size.

 PSAP<SID> = <90% PSAP<SID><Kernel Version> = <90% PSAP<SID><User Directory> = <90% PSAPTEMP = <50% PSAPUNDO = <50% SYSTEM = <90% 2. Check missing indexes. Missing indexes Indexes which are defined in the ABAP Dictionary but are missing in the database or indexes which were created in the database but are unknown to the ABAP Dictionary. 3. Check Space critical objects. Space critical objects are objects that become space critical due to lack of insufficient free space in tablespace.