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SAP APO AND SAP LIVECACHE'S NEW BACKUP AND RECOVERABILITY FEATURES BOLS 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 real time. mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) offers a way to solve this dilemma of processing where the data is and processing on main memory for performance: SAP APO (SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer) with SAP liveCache. SAP APO increases the speed of transactions for supply chain planning many times over. Now, with the newest version of SAP liveCache and SAP APO, SAP customers will continue to see high performance 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 creating a detailed, long-term production schedule - involves analyzing huge amounts of data from your own business processes and from the partners along your supply chain. In contrast to typical ERP data models, the demands on such planning systems require models designed to process vast amounts of data in near real time. Thus companies often find themselves in a data-processing dilemma: for any heavy-duty planning solution to achieve acceptable performance under these circumstances, processing must be done where the data is. To get another performance boost, processing must be done on main memory. The first paradigm omits extra network roundtrips, the second one avoids unnecessary disk access. And then, of course, efficient backup and recovery 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 SAP liveCache. SAP APO increases the speed of transactions for supply chain planning many times over. Now, with the newest version of SAP liveCache and SAP APO, SAP customers will continue to see high performance and availability, but they will also find simpler and more powerful tools for full point-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 SAP liveCache, it helps SAP customers 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 optimization as part of the SAP system to cover long- and short-term planning issues, such as supply network planning, demand planning, and production planning. (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-based data model, with its own representation in its own database server. The system can either work off the SAP APO database server for more basic planning data, or off SAP liveCache for high-performance, high-memory planning issues. Application servers can also handle multiple connections to the different databases (see Figure 1), meaning that multiple processes and applications can connect simultaneously with different systems during the same session, and can work on data in either SAP liveCache or the SAP APO database server.

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27-4-2012