Hello everyone,
my name is Tobias and I am a student at the university of münster, germany. I am working at a seminar paper about advanced planning systems (APS). In more detail: I want to do some research in the field of solutions methods, i.e. heuristics and mathematical approaches for estimating/ solving optimization problems. Therefor I am trying to find currently used solution methods; for example in the APS from SAP (SAP APO). The only thing I have found out so far are cryptic shortcuts for methods used in SAP APO like SAP_MLO_BU (e.g. http://scn.sap.com/thread/1348117)
So my question is, if there is any information available which describes on which methods the implementation is based. I am trying to find some literature, which is describing them. (e.g. books, or journal papers, …) Can I somehow achieve that information (e.g. in the documentation), or is that not possible? Since I am no customer of SAP, I can only look at what is available on the SAP’s homepage and Help Page/ Library. I have looked and search through them, but couldn’t find anything revealing.
I hope someone can help me.
Yours sincerely,
Tobias R.