SAP Integrated Business Planning — Creating a Collaborative, Easy-to-Use Integrated Planning Solution
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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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- Demand forecasting (19)7.676%
- Resource optimization (18)7.575%
- Scenario-based planning (19)7.171%
- Custom alerts (19)6.262%
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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.
Blue Yonder Luminate Planning, Kinaxis RapidResponse, and E2open are common alternatives for SAP Integrated Business Planning.
Reviewers rate Inventory stock optimization highest, with a score of 7.7.
The most common users of SAP Integrated Business Planning are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.
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- Better ROI (switch quickly from one scenario to another one when the first is not performing as it was expected).
- improved data quality.
- improved business understanding.
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
In the past, we had experience with other tools and systems, but none were not integrated with each other. When we adopted SAP IBP we were searching for a platform that in a unique environment gives us the possibility to have everything we need to manage our business, from the creation of the product/services to its monitoring. And, at that time, we wanted to switch without losing all the data of the previous projects. And the solution was SAP IBP adoption.
SAP Integrated Business Planning has the best performance in terms of integration and scalability. You can also use integrations with other systems, such as AWP and the SAP world (SAP Integrated Business Planning Consolidation, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP TPM, and so on). The others don't have this capability. In other words, with SAP IBP, you don't have limits.
September 27, 2023
SAP for aerospace
SAP has allowed me to see my entire value stream in one quick glance. I am able to see where my products are, what issues it is they are having, and both the delivery stream to/from my shop.
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- Non conformances
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- Integrating with other operating platforms
- More customization
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- Forecasting for future demand
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It was a decision made by my corporation so I did not have much say.
Both have their advantages.
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.
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- Helps in improving the forecast and decision-making in the internal affairs of the company.
- Now we can make improved decisions regarding inventory, staffing, and even pricing.
- Save time by automating some of the task involved in forecasting
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
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
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- IBP helped improve the overall S&OP Process
- It provides a central platform for our teams globally to manage the forecast and the demand
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- Scalability
Prior to IBP, the whole demand management and forecasting was highly manual, spreadsheets based process.
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
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- Faster turnaround of S&OP cycle
- Improved forecast accuracy
- Increased headcount to support S&OP
- Better data quality