Thanks a lot Mark.
I think the main point which is creating flutters is below(taken from your article) :
SAP APO, as part of SAP Business Suite, has a planned standard maintenance date of 2020. Decisions about maintenance timeframes made for SAP Business Suite will automatically be inherited to SAP APO.
What is the meaning of this statement ? In lay man's language it looks like SAP will phase out APO.
Can you please elaborate the above statement in bold.