SAP Integrated Business Planning

Score8.4 out of 10

153 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: 8.4
Pricing and product configurations generation
Ability to generate pricing and product configurations for customers.
Category average: 8.7
Fleet management
Management of a fleet of vehicles (usually trucks) used to transport goods.
Category average: 7.5

Stock monitoring
Ability to monitory inventory levels across one or multiple warehouses.
Category average: 8.3
Custom alerts
Real-time alerts of supply chain activity such as shipping status or problems.
Category average: 7.1
Pricing and promotion tracking
Ability to track promotion campaigns (this may be used more by retailers).
Category average: 6.9

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using SAP Integrated Business Planning.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Manufacturing

37.8%

1,324 installations of 3,507

“Planner prefer to use excel when the planning is complicated”
— Global process Owner, S&OP and Inventory Management, Astellas (Enterprises)

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

12.6%

442 installations of 3,507

#3 most frequent

Wholesale Trade

4.9%

172 installations of 3,507

Pros

Seamless integration with the broader SAP ecosystem (e.g., SAP S/4HANA)
Robust demand planning functionalities for detailed forecasting and outlier management
Effective scenario planning to model demands and optimize stocking approaches

Cons

Performance and speed issues, especially with large data volumes or peak usage
User interface and overall user experience can lack intuitiveness for complex tasks
Inconsistencies and complex error messaging during integration with other SAP systems

Naidu Paila

Business Systems Manager in Information Technology at Zimmer Biomet (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Enabled full Planning process, Demand, Supply and IO, along with control tower, everything works great except control tower as it function very slow and limited options to design it. would recommend to have more functionalities in the control tower

Pros

Everything in Demand works well except the forecast results explanations

Cons

Forecast BOM Functionality, in medical device company many FG's will be group together as a KIT to be used in Surgeries, since IBP does not have the functionality, it is difficult to perform the planning and external tools being to perform the set/kit planning

Return on Investment

everything connected works well, concern we have it on Supply planning capacity level lading where planners love to perform the plan at family level but capacity has to be level load based on the priority,w e did the custome solution but looking for some standard solution to do more level loading based in the item/Demand/priority in time series planning

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Brian Turner

Senior Software Architect in Information Technology at SMX (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Demand forecasting by cost center and commodity; millions of materials with complex interchangeability and substitution rules

Pros

compare multiple forecasts
Excel-like UX
SmartInsights

Cons

transparency of forecasting logic
ad-hoc inventory status updates

Return on Investment

revealed gaps in our demand signals
quantified variability in demand

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Palantir Foundry, OneStream and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)

Vincent Gagnon-Germain

Customer solution manager in Customer Service at Cascades (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used every day for demand, production, inventory and supply planning. Our demand planner establish the forecast in IBP using stat forecast, we use the recommandations of Inventory optimisation for our target inventories, and we run the supply optimiser to drive ou production and distribution plan. We are not order based planning or HPA, just time-series

Pros

Demand planning
Inventory optimization
Visibility and repporting
Supply optimizer

Cons

Real time visibility
Ai master data alert
master data is very complicated to maintain
If SAP is not S4, we lose some functionnalities

Return on Investment

Inventory reduction
Better service level
Better OTIF
Freight optimization

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBP

Other Software Used

IBP

jessie peng

Global process Owner, S&OP and Inventory Management in Manufacturing at Astellas (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

supply chain planning. setup for demand planning and finished goods supply planning, but not end to end planning

Pros

easy to use as a manager, I can check overall planning performance
easy to understand

Cons

adoption at planner level. Planner prefer to use excel when the planning is complicated

Return on Investment

mproved business processes, supply chain and inventory visibility,

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP Concur

Daniel Rotshteyn

Business analyst in Information Technology at Lantheus (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Planning Finished good and BOM materials. We use time series infinite capacity. Additionally, forecast information is sent from SAC. Key figure data is shared with EDW. Recently, we have been utilizing the statistical forecast model to achieve better forecast accuracy. The largest hurdle is accurate master data in S4hana production.

Pros

Visuals
Have the excel addon
Logs are easy to follow for troubleshooting.

Cons

Intuitiveness
Speed of excel at times
not sure where values are coming from.

Return on Investment

It has

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