SAP Integrated Business Planning — Creating a Collaborative, Easy-to-Use Integrated Planning Solution
We use it to ensure synchronization of Op, Strat and Financial Plans. For our OP plans we (are trying) using it for true top-down, …
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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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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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What is SAP Integrated Business Planning?
What is SAP Integrated Business Planning?
A software solution that helps users respond to new market expectations with real-time supply chain planning capabilities, and fulfill future demand profitably. Powered by in-memory computing technology within SAP HANA, this cloud-based solution combines capabilities for sales and operations, demand, response and supply planning, and inventory optimization. - Cloud deployment - Real-time scenarios and simulation - Social collaboration - Predictive Analytics
Key Capabilities: Offers end-to-end visibility of the supply chain, decision support, and supports corrective action through integration with SAP Supply Chain Control Tower. It provides demand transparency with short-term, mid-term, and long-term forecasting, and capabilities for demand sensing and statistical forecasting. It is used in the attempt to establish optimal inventory targets that enable the business to maximize profits, while leaving a buffer to help meet unexpected demand, and to deliver a cross-departmental sales and operations plan that balances inventory, service levels, and profitability. Users can optimize resourcing efficiency by creating supply plans based on prioritized demands, allocations, and supply chain constraints.
Key Benefits: Achieve a rapid deployment Get up and running quickly with SAP Integrated Business Planning by using preconfigured process templates for an accelerated implementation. Empower employees with intuitive features Offer a unified, intuitive user experience with SAP Fiori and planning and simulation capabilities based on Microsoft Excel. Plan resources effectively Optimize resource efficiency by creating supply plans based on prioritized demands, allocations, and supply chain constraints.
SAP Integrated Business Planning Features
Supply Chain Planning Features
- Supported: Custom alerts
- Supported: Scenario-based planning
- Supported: Resource optimization
- Supported: Supply forecasting
- Supported: Capacity estimation
- Supported: Supply network coordination
Demand Management Features
- Supported: Demand signal sensing
- Supported: Demand forecasting
- Supported: Customer analytics
- Supported: Inventory stock optimization
- Supported: Sales and operations planning
- Supported: Pricing and promotion tracking
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SAP Integrated Business Planning Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
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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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The most common users of SAP Integrated Business Planning are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 22, 2024
SAP Integrated Business Planning — Creating a Collaborative, Easy-to-Use Integrated Planning Solution
We use it to ensure synchronization of Op, Strat and Financial Plans. For our OP plans we (are trying) using it for true top-down, bottom-up planning.
- Collaboration across enterprise
- Ease of use
- Intuitive UI
- Better scalability!
- Better integration with Office365
- Mobile capabilities improved (sizing, etc.)
November 15, 2023
IBP is still in good condition but could be expanded by usability
we use the IBP to condiuct sales and operations planning as well to sustain the stability of the entire supplz chain. In particular the demand sensing functionality provided us with enormous benefits. Another functionality that has been very helpful was the heuristic functionality in demand planning, in particular for the sales planning in emerging markets
- demand planning
- integration features with AI apps
November 14, 2023
First experience with IBP
I worked on the definition of the architecture and on the implementation of IBP.<br>Our main issues is the use of the excel addon, we have a problem with authentication security.<br>It would be great to only have the online version of IBP, without using Excel.
- Planification
- Use of Excel addon (would be better to only have the web app)
November 14, 2023
Connection between people, technology and processes.
SAP IBP in our organization is used for having a 360° vision of our business, from product creation to sales monitoring and other KPIs monitoring. In my personal experience, I used SAP IBP to monitor the most important KPIs and for an analysis of the supply chain and, then advise the top management and the product owner for adjustments in the production and design phase. Basically, a complete vision of the supply chain allows me to have control of the entire scenario and answer quickly to every answer that the top management asks me about how the new products and services are performing. This also means that the possibility to understand in an easy way what are the problems in the supply chain or understand what kind of things could be changed or improved allows you to adapt your business to the market, saving time and going into the market before your competitors. Moreover, the possibility of having a lot of integration channels gives you the possibility to switch fast from one scenario (that could be good in the past) to a new one, even if only for a test. Basically, this means a better ROI, both in terms of more revenues and cost savings.
- More accurate planning of your business.
- Real time monitoring of KPIs.
- You can take data- based decision in real time.
- The trial version is very limited, but it's a trial! But for the awareness of the platform, SAP could improve the free version.
- SAP IBP has a lot of functions, but not all are easy to understand and put into practice. Maybe a better demo would be a plus for the awareness of all of them.
September 07, 2023
SAP Integrated Business Planning Drive Value With a Simple Solution
The integration with the ERP and the pre-built-in model provide great business value. It drives standardization and provides a good framework to grow the business and the process. It is the second time I have worked for a company that uses the tool and the results are very encouraging regardless of the companies having been in different sectors.
- ECC interface
- User friendly
- Data speed
- Reporting
- Screen simplicity
- Data modeling
I mostly use SAP Integrated Business Planning to build a better relationship with my suppliers and also this helps me to ensure that we have an authentic supply of products and services on a regular basis and during the time of crisis. IBP also helps our team to build a transaction of information about the products, such as our regular demand forecasts and current inventory data. This would help us to work together and improve the efficiency of our supply chain.
- Helps us to estimate close to accurate demand forecast
- Helps to minimize the cost and boost the customer demand
- Helps us to avoid stockouts and excess inventories.
- The menus and tools bars are little complex to find in the dashboard of the software
- The automation of the planning process lacks professionalism
- There is no option available to create custom reports.
We use IBP Demand Management and Supply and Response to mainly manage the Consensus Demand and Sales Forecast
- IBP provides the excel plugins as the main entry point for the users which, our users, are pretty familiar with and there is no special training that is required to be up and running with these templates
- Better SSO options with Fiori OR IDP
- Excel Performance especially when IBP plug-ins are running with other spreadsheets
November 22, 2022
Goodbye to oldie goldie APO, Welcome to refreshing IBP
We use IBP for demand planning solutions.. we do demand planning in IBP using some key constraints for monthly forecasts and send the forecasted result to the S4 system as independent requirements. These independent requirements are considered by MRP for planned order creation within the planning horizon for procurement/production execution.
- Demand planning
- Key constraint can be defined to perform the planning well
- Seamless integration with S4 and legacy system for inbound and outbound of required data
- Would like to run jobs from Excel views while working with scenarios, it's not possible currently
- Predefined KPIs to measure supply chain performance could be added advantage
November 17, 2022
Ease of use
We use IBP for budget planning. ECC data is fetched from MRP to IBP and users can play around the figures. But since the data is from ERP, there are difficulties in having scenarios etc.
- Data integration
- Reporting
- Authorization
- simulation
- know-how
- best practices
October 26, 2022
Inventory, analysis and strategy planning.
This tool has been essential for us in the commercial area for the planning of various events and the correct tracking of inventory. It has allowed us to follow in real-time, thanks to the fact that it is based on the cloud, the various changes that occur, evaluate the supply chain in detail, and respond effectively to the situation that arises; in this way, we are attentive to the details, Act quickly and prevent incidents. It is also an excellent tool for planning our commercial strategy; we just capture all our work, evaluate its progress, and take it as a study to improve our commercial strategies. It has accompanied us in any sales process, being the support to load the data, analyze it and operate in a more conscious way, always linking the best ideas to make our project more than expected.
- Comfortable database, it adjusts to what we know how to use.
- The platform acts quickly, and throws metrics and analysis adjusted to the times we need, thus automating the results.
- Complete and detailed reports, we can dynamically evaluate all the information.
- The access is quite limited; it is only based on the cloud, which is fine because we know that the storage is wide and secure. However, it is not versatile, our work needs more flexibility of access from any device, and this is not a solution.
- It took us time to get the hang of the platform and correctly understand the use of each function; better training would have made things easier for us at the time.
SAP IBP is used to modernise and standardise Demand and Supply planning in a supply network comprising of many production plants and distribution centres in Western Europe, Northern Europe, US and Canada. Each node in the network having previously used clunky, disintegrated planning tools; often based on spreadsheets with no common master data.
Now, supply chain planning is standardised across the group with S&OP cycle time reduced by over 80%, forecast accuracy improved by 20% and less stressed planners!
Now, supply chain planning is standardised across the group with S&OP cycle time reduced by over 80%, forecast accuracy improved by 20% and less stressed planners!
- Rapid to spin up a potential solution
- Elegant visualisation of massive datasets
- Rapid process metric generation
- Harmonisation of planning results
- More user-led help documentation on help.sap.com
- More user friendly training material in learning hub
- Easier to follow use cases in the in-app help