SAP SNP

What is SNP ? 

• SNP is a SAP SCM/APO module help match a feasible replenishment plan to the demand plan.
• Balance mid to long term and facilitate critical and/or cross plant supply situations 
• Months 4-24 
• Dependent upon business requirements 
• View extended to 36 months to support long lead-time materials 
• Role and Functionality Integration 
• Capacity Leveling 
• Backward/Forward scheduling 
• Select alternate resources and/or BOMs 
• Manage purchase requisitions / stock transfers 
• Fix orders 
• Safety Stocks

SNP process overview :

Match a feasible replenishment plan to the demand plan

• Interactive Planning 
• Adjustment & Reconciliation of supply plan 
• “What-if?” scenarios 

• Alerts
• Exception Based Management 
• Alert Monitor 

• Classical SNP- Functionalities 


• Considering Limited Capacities 
• Identifying the Source of Supply 
• Consider Bill of Materials




• Planning and Optimization Tools
• Heuristic 
• Capable to Match (CTM) 
• Deployment 
• Constraint and cost based 
• Optimization 
• Transport Load Building 
• Vendor Managed Inventory 

• Integration
• Feed of information from SAP R/3 
• Feed of data from Legacy systems 
• Transfer of Plans to R/3 
• Procurement, Production, Distribution and Transport  

 Importance of Supply Network Planning :

The strength of SNP lies in selecting the source of supply as well as in determining the approximate production date.

• SNP provide supply sites with: 
• Cross-plant and period-based Stock Transfer Requests (STR) which will be utilized across the full planning horizon to drive near-term production planning 
• Capacity planning/leveling to clear resource overloads by moving orders or partial order quantities into previous or subsequent periods using forward or backward scheduling.