SAP Integrated Business Planning

Score8.5 out of 10

125 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Integrated Business Planning?

SAP supports supply chain management with Integrated Business Planning, the company's real-time cloud-based supply chain planning platform supporting demand response, supply planning and inventory management oriented features, with supply chain analytics to support decisioning.

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Expense Logging
Ability to record and store information about expenses incurred from purchasing materials and labor.
Category average: 7.8
Pricing and product configurations generation
Ability to generate pricing and product configurations for customers.
Category average: 8.8
Fleet management
Management of a fleet of vehicles (usually trucks) used to transport goods.
Category average: 7.5

Shipping performance
Monitoring of shipping performance.
Category average: 7.6
Stock monitoring
Ability to monitory inventory levels across one or multiple warehouses.
Category average: 8
Pricing and promotion tracking
Ability to track promotion campaigns (this may be used more by retailers).
Category average: 6.9

Aman Verma View profile

Product Manager in Product Management at Tata cliq (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Integrated Business Planning is a cloud based system which connects my office demand supply inventory and finance. It helps in creating with minimum cost and maximum sales. We are running market place+ offline stores we also have huge sku catlog multi location inventory. SAP Integrated Business Planning helps in forecasting history of sales, seasonality, promotions and weather trends. Like - red sneakers demand in tier 2 so we can increase our stock before festival. This helps in higher sales conversion and reduce lost sales.

Pros

Sales trend analysis
Smart inventory distribution
Monitor online fulfilment centre

Cons

Real time stock check
Automation in supply chain management
Multi channel optimization

Return on Investment

Better planing less wastage
Stocks distribution is more clear
Fast decisions helps in longer profits

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Integration Suite

Other Software Used

SAP Integration Suite, SAP Business Network, SAP Build

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a software company using SAP Integrated Business Planning for our own planning purposes. We do have a lot side calculations that have to be brought into SAP. The main use case is to have a single spurt of truth and have all the data consolidated in SAP. We had too much information spread around very the business units. This is now easier.

Pros

Ressource planning
Forecasting
KI based performance

Cons

Flexibility
AI power
Input layer

Return on Investment

Improved the quality of external
data
20% less time to input values

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BlackLine and HighRadius Autonomous Treasury

Other Software Used

Azure AI Bot Service, Microsoft 365, SAP Cloud ERP

Verified User

Vice-President in Sales (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Disconnected system and need to connect different applications

Pros

Integrating well.
Common platform.
Nice

Cons

IBP is a powerful tool for Demand planning.

Return on Investment

Great ROI improvement.

Usability

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use SAP Integrated Business Planning for Prioritizing projects by financial and value add

Pros

Collating data from all business units
Identifies the important objects
Aligns with strategic objectives

Cons

Additional functionalities such as justification

Return on Investment

Has improved data quality
Prioritization
Resource management

Usability

Other Software Used

PDF to Spreadsheets

Verified User

Professional in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It covers improvement on the accuracy of the forecasting with the help of AI.

Pros

Improve forecasting accuracy
Connects procurement to finance to manage cost variances
Better tools for calculating potential savings and margin improvement

Cons

Version updates
Advantage against SAC

Return on Investment

Forecast accuracy
Cost saving
Margin improvement

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP Business Warehouse

Blue Yonder Luminate Planning

E2open

Kinaxis RapidResponse

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Expense Logging

Pricing and product configurations generation

Fleet management

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Shipping performance

Stock monitoring

Pricing and promotion tracking

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