TrustRadius Insights for SAP Integrated Business Planning are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Efficient Enterprise Collaboration: Users have consistently lauded the platform for its seamless facilitation of collaboration across different departments, leading to improved productivity and communication within the organization. This streamlined collaboration has enabled teams to work more effectively together, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
Historical Data Features: Users have appreciated the ability to garner both snapshot views and historical data, this is especially useful in scenario modeling.
Valuable IBP Integration: Customers have expressed appreciation for the integration with IBP, citing it as a valuable asset for enhancing planning processes and ensuring smooth data integration throughout the system. By seamlessly integrating IBP functionalities, users can optimize their planning activities and achieve greater efficiency in decision-making processes.
To have better control of our suppliers and customers SAP Integrated Business Planning is a great addon to our other systems and applications. SAP Integrated Business Planning is a very smooth working application that is easy to run for end users as well as for our power user to enable fast processing of business data.
Pros
Smooth interface
Integration with SAP S/4HANA
User friendly
Cons
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect to maintain customer relations
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use several modules of SAP Integrated Business Planning: Demand, Supply, Response. We use it for the S&OP and Fulfillment process to manage our business. Mayor challenges are a mix of make to stock and project business with customer orders we get several months in advance.
Pros
Integration into SAP world
Innovation
Covering more and more industry processes
Cons
Simplification of CI-DS interface to select data generically instead of creating the interface for each new business unit again
Likelihood to Recommend
Excel as an interface highly flexible
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We're using it for our S&OP process to have complete overview of our project pipeline and the capacities of our factories as well of suppliers.
Pros
Integration with S4
Excel and Web Interface
Simulation of scenarios
Cons
Custom Development
Likelihood to Recommend
Factory capacities and the insights from the birds perspective on the pipeline of upcoming projects combined with end to end view. The Control Tower is currently still in evaluation.
In terms of direct team planning the current state of the software is not the best option to go but we're looking forward to it.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
I am an internal consultant responsible for IBP Demand Planning and IBP Supply Planning. I have been implementing IBP for 6 years. We are deployed globally
Pros
Excel add in integration with software allows users to ramp up quickly
Webinars and knowledge sharing is exceptional with plethora of information
Ability to connect well with Demand and Supply as well as financials to allow a large context of information for the user
Cons
Cloud based controls by SAP is confusing as sometimes performance issues can only be controlled by SAP
Some functionality is not clearly understood by consultants and myself have to dig in to find the issue
Likelihood to Recommend
its well suited for customers using APO and ECC for demand and supply planning to better integrate these two products together under a flexible architectur
We use SAP Integrated Business Planning for Demand Planning and long term supply planning. For Demand Planning, SAP Integrated Business Planning has allowed us to greatly improve our WFA due to the addition of statistical models available and the ability to drive consistency in processes across multiple business units. Long term supply planning has allowed us to extend our supply planning horizon out 24 months to enable better capacity planning and has allowed our S&OP timeline to extend 24 months, instead of previously being 12-18. This improvement has improved our strategic decision making.
Pros
User interface is better - looks and feels like Excel to users
Allows strategic capacity planning out 24 months
Ability to do scenario planning within the model
Ability to maintain unconstrained and constrained demand plans
Cons
lifecycle management table is challenging
struggled with getting graphs usable for S&OP type meetings from system
need to limit data in data pulls to get results
Likelihood to Recommend
Our biggest improvements have been in WFA due to improved statistical forecast scenarios and in the long range supply planning to be able to see capacity details out 24 months and look at multiple scenarios to able to drive better decision making and contingency planning through our S&OP process.
I rely on SAP Integrated Business Planning in our distribution set-up to control inventory in several warehouses. The system performs real-time analysis to minimize inventory costs and simultaneously meet all our customer requirements. Replenishment planning is supported because the system shows supply chain limitations and lead times.
Pros
By using the multi-echelon inventory optimization feature, we have lowered our total inventory and maintained our service performance.
Through SAP Integrated Business Planning, we can test different stocking approaches and see how they affect our key performance measures.
Because of the ERP integration, our data is updated in real time, guaranteeing higher accuracy.
Cons
The system does not work as smoothly when processing large volumes of data. There are processing delays when we are busy planning.
Moreover, because inventory exceptions are not automatically alerted, employees have to check them manually, which takes extra time. Upgrades in these sections could raise our operational efficiency.
Likelihood to Recommend
The system succeeds in managing inventory for networks with many locations and unpredictable demand. Single-location businesses with easy inventory requirements might find the system more complicated than necessary.
By using SAP Integrated Business Planning I ensure the inventory levels are in correspondence with the consumer demand in several locations. Through the assessment of previous sales figures and the current trends within the market, we are better able to predict demand more accurately, and each store is better provided, ensuring that stores do not factor low sales. This has played a very important role in reducing excess inventory and less relieving lost sales aloof as a result of stock out. It has given a common platform of demand planning, supply planning and inventory optimization which has improved our capability to make decisions based on informed decisions across the globe.
Pros
The capabilities of the system in integrating multiple data sources offer the full picture of our supply chain.
The feature of the scenario planning allows us to be able to model various different demands and prepare for the seasonal demand peaks and promotional events.
Our collaborative planning capabilities have also helped to make our purchasing and sales departments better coordinated.
Cons
A place for improvement is the system’s ability to respond during peak usage.
We've had intermittent slowdowns which impact planning activities.
Customization of reports may be constrained meaning there is extra work to adapt outputs to our needs.
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP Integrated Business Planning works best in complex retail environments with many sales channels and locations and where dynamic demand planning is crucial. However, the advanced features of the system will not be exploited by single-store operations or businesses with stable demand patterns.
