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SAP Integrated Business Planning Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.4 out of 10
Score
8.4 out of 10

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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.

Reviews

56 Reviews

My Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable for engineering and manufacturing projects, not so much with security

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
1 year of experience

Good SAP Integrated Business Planning

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

In finance perspective, this is applicable when you want to connect finance and procurement as to spending monitoring, accuracy in forecasting procure items and cost saving.

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
1 year of experience

SAP Integrated Business Planning - delivers value to Business

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Integrated Business Planning is primarily used for demand planning and uploading Forecast to S4HANA via CI-DS.

Pros

  • Demand planning esp. outlier management

Cons

  • Re-alignment works well

Likelihood to Recommend

Business adoption is going quite well and expecting to expand to include the supply module as well.

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
1 year of experience

SAP Integrated Business Planning - Value for money if implemented well

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Integrated Business Planning addresses the problems of Planning & execution for us.

Pros

  • I think SAP Integrated Business Planning does supply planning well
  • SAP Integrated Business Planning does demand planning well
  • In my opinion, SAP Integrated Business Planning does production planning and scheduling well

Cons

  • Adoptability
  • Scaling
  • Prerequisites and user friendliness

Likelihood to Recommend

I'm likely to recommend SAP Integrated Business Planning for large scale end to end supply chain visibility

SAP Integrated Business Planning works fine

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
2 years of experience

SAP Integrated Business Planning - Great Application

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
9 years of experience

Better insights with less paper

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
3 years of experience

SAP Integrated Business Planning review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for Supply Planning and Demand Planning.

Pros

  • Create detailed Demand plan
  • Help with accurate production planning
  • Integrate with core S/4 HANA

Cons

  • On some occasions, the data between S/4 HANA and SAP Integrated Business Planning can have inconsistencies.
  • Ease of use could be improved. Perhaps more training and tutorial opportunities would help.

Likelihood to Recommend

With proper master data set up and full business involvement, SAP Integrated Business Planning can be a powerful tool.

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
4 years of experience

IBP for your company

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP IBP to get the production, sales plan and purchase plan in Italika.

Pros

  • Purchase Plan
  • Production Plan
  • Sales forecast

Cons

  • More information about order based planning
  • Explaining the results of the time series optimizer

Likelihood to Recommend

For the collaborations inside the Italika Teams, the optimizer also works very well if you input the correct data

Vetted Review
SAP Integrated Business Planning
4 years of experience

Integrated Business Planning

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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