The benefits of SAP Integrated Business Planning
May 28, 2025

The benefits of SAP Integrated Business Planning

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Integrated Business Planning

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
  • WFA improvements
  • standardized processes around inventory optimization
  • ability to drive scenario and contingency planning in S&OP
Can be a little daunting when starting, but once users find their preferred views and process, they are very pleased with the system
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
Scalability was probably the more important in our decision. We have all business units Globally using SAP Integrated Business Planning. For those that were using APO in the past, we had to maintain multiple planning areas and have long running batch jobs. The ability to have Global planners in one planning area allows a more simple process and allows for easier Global rollups of data.

Do you think SAP Integrated Business Planning delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Integrated Business Planning's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Integrated Business Planning live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Integrated Business Planning go as expected?

No

Would you buy SAP Integrated Business Planning again?

Yes

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.

SAP Integrated Business Planning Feature Ratings

7.0
Custom alerts
6
Scenario-based planning
7
Capacity estimation
8
Procurement Management ()
Not Rated
Order Fulfillment Management ()
Not Rated
Logistics and Transportation Management ()
Not Rated
Warehouse & Inventory Management ()
Not Rated
8.0
Demand forecasting
8
Inventory stock optimization
8
Sales and operations planning
8
Pricing and promotion tracking
8

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