Started Work on Promotion Planning and Like Modelling on APO. Did some background reading on Promotion Planning in APO.
In APO Demand Planning, you can plan promotions or other special events separately from the rest of your forecast. You can use Promotion Planning to record either one-time events, such as an earthquake, or repeated events such as quarterly advertising campaigns. Other examples of promotions are trade fairs, coupons, free-standing inserts, competitors' activities, market intelligence. Examples of events that also have an impact on consumer behavior are upward/downward economic trends, and acts of nature, such as tornadoes etc.

The advantages of planning promotions separately are:
You can compare forecasts with promotions to those without promotions.
You can correct the sales history by extracting past promotions from it, thus obtaining unpromoted historical data for the baseline forecast.
The processes of interactive planning and promotion planning can be kept completely separate. For example, the sales force might be responsible for interactive planning while marketing is responsible for promotion planning.
Promotional uplifts can be defined in units or percentages by promotion patterns. A promotion pattern that occurred in the past can be automatically detected and recreated for future periods. A promotion pattern can be archived in a promotion catalog; it can therefore be reused if a promotion of the same type is repeated.

What is Supply Chain?
Supply chain management is the combination of art and science that goes into improving the way your company finds the raw components it needs to make a product or service, manufactures that product or service and delivers it to customers.

The Sapphire Conference is on at Lisbon. Am waiting for the presentations on the Discrete industry specifically the Automobile ones

I have to prepare for the CPIM exam conducted by APICS. I am giving the exams in the Basic Supply Chain Management and the Master Planning of Resources module. I would be putting up some of the material relevant to that out here.