Introduction to AFS Processes

AFS SD Process Overview

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AFS SD Process: Overview

Introduction:

Apparel Business Overview

Uniqueness of SAP AFS Solution
AFS Master Data
Pricing, Seasons, Value Added Services (VAS)
AFS ATP
Allocation Run
Delivery and Billing
Mass Document Changes
Special Order Types

Objectives
Objective:
After completing this chapter you will be able to:

Understand the need for SAP AFS Solution

Know the basic overview of different AFS SD
processes
Would be able to work on SAP AFS solution

Do You Know
Do you know the basic ERP SD processes?
Do you know about SAP AFS Solution?
Do you know the need for separate solution for
Apparel and Footwear from SAP?

Apparel Business Process Overview

Uniqueness of Apparel Processes

Due to seasonal nature of the Apparel Business , huge lead

time is required for the sales order processing
A normal material does not have much significance nor is
useful as the other features like size, color and other
characteristics are important
All the order processing would be at schedule line level instead
of item level in the standard ERP solution
Due to the above necessity, schedule line has more
significance in this industry process

SAP AFS Solution - Highlights

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To store and handle the unique material characteristics in the

apparel like size, color etc. special Master Data consisting of
Grids, Categories are present
Due to the above requirement, SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) is
different than the normal ECC solution
The above unique master data consisting of Grids, Categories
handles huge amount of SKU data effectively than Std.
Variants
As SKU and other information are processed at schedule line
level, it stores more than just the delivery dates as in Standard
ECC
Only remaining SAP Industry Add-on Solution outside the ECC
6.0 framework due to all the above unique reasons

Master Data Overview:

AFS Grids and Categories

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Enhancements in AFS Material Master

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Demand Management : AFS Sales Order Cycle

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AFS Order Structure

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AFS Sales Order and Master Data

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Seasons : Business Overview

Due to seasonal nature of products which would

be sold, we need a capability to indicate when a
material can be ordered or delivered
Also, we may need to assign these periods
different for different customers or for a group of
customers based on the business needs
Seasons functionality helps in achieving the
above requirement

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Seasonal Processing in Sales Order

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Value Added Services : Business Overview

Apparel products are not sold as such. Many
customers require very unique packaging or
additional services done on them.
Need a mechanism to assign or incorporate these
additional services and also need to calculate the
cost incurred for the same in order to determine
the final selling price for the final goods sold
All the above requirement is handled by Value
Added Services

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Value Added Services in Sales Orders

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Prepacks and Assortments : Business Overview

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AFS SD BOM Prepack

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AFS SD BOM Assortment

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Demand Management : Inventory Sourcing

(ATP)

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AFS ATP Architecture and Logic

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Sales Scenario Rescheduling

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Allocation Run : Business Overview

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Due to long lead time between the order creation

and the order delivery, a mechanism is required
to reserve the goods as they are produced
against the orders to ensure proper delivery of
the goods
Ability to transfer the reservation of goods from
the future receipts (Purchase Order, Production
Order) to the Batch Stock to ensure they are
delivered
Need a mechanism to deliver the products for
high priority / special customers always at any
cost
Allocation Run ensures all the above can be
achieved

Allocation Run : Process Flow Components

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Allocation Run to Delivery

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Deliveries in AFS System

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Billing Documents in AFS System

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Mass Document Change

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Rush Order

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Consignment Processing

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Multi Store Order : Scenario

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Contracts

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Third-Party Order Processing in AFS

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PTO and MTO Process in AFS

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AFS SD Process Overview: Summary

You have come to the end of this chapter. Take a look
at the key points.
AFS Solution is an Industry Add-on solution from
SAP
All the Standard ERP processes are available to be
executed. In addition other processes specific to
apparel industry works in conjunction with the ERP
process.
Seasons, Value Added Services (VAS), Allocation
Run, Multi-Store Order are some of the available
processes unique for the effective Apparel
Business.
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AFS SD Process Overview: Source

Help.SAP.com->SAP for Industries->SAP for
Consumer Products->SAP Apparel Footwear
Solution
ICP Course Materials from SAP ICP 310, ICP 320

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