SAP Integrated Business Planning

What is SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

SAP IBP system provides a single platform for businesses to collaborate, plan, and execute their operations, ensuring that all stakeholders have access to the same data and can make informed decisions based on real-time information.

• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

  S&OP is a cross-functional process that involves sales, marketing, finance, and operations teams, and aims to ensure that a company's supply chain is able to meet customer demand while balancing costs and inventory levels. It provides real-time planning with performance monitoring and simulation capabilities. 

• Forecasting and Demand Management

  Enables companies to create accurate demand forecasts and optimize their inventory levels. The solution uses advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze historical demand data and generate accurate forecasts. It consists of Demand planning, Advanced demand sensing, Statistical models for forecasting, time series for demand analysis and demand sensing

• Inventory Planning and Optimization

  Enables companies to optimize their inventory levels by balancing customer service levels and inventory costs. The solution contains multistage inventory optimization, robust statistical models, service level management, “what-if” scenario analysis, and embedded analytics.

• Response & Supply Planning

  Enables companies optimize their supply chain operations by providing real-time visibility into supply chain performance, enabling rapid response to changes in demand, supply or constraints. It provides order promising, constraint-based planning, rough-cut planning, multilevel planning with allocations and repromising of orders through prioritization rules.

• Demand-Driven Replenishment

  Optimize the inventory and replenishment processes based on actual customer demand using Demand-Driven Replenishment. Enable smooth material and information flow combined with calculations of past material consumptions for future forecasting of buffer zones.

• Supply Chain Visibility

  IBP provides comprehensive visibility across all levels of your supply chain. The alerting and analytics provide a 360 degree view. With supply network collaboration and comparison analysis one can break the ground for next level supply chain operations.