What is SAP IBP and how can it improve your business?
SAP’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solution combines all the technology you need for end-to-end supply chain management and planning. This cloud-based tool permits combined sales and operations planning (S&OP), accurate creation of demand plans, response and supply capacity planning and management, or analysis and management of your supply chain, all in real time and in a cost-effective manner. It offers you the flexibility and agility needed to respond to any supply chain disruptions.
SAP IBP modules
SAP IBP caters for native integration with other modules and solutions, making it possible to enhance its capabilities.
- Demand Planning. It offers potential market scenarios covering external aspects not directly related to company operations, and can also provide statistical forecasts and predictions to improve demand.
- Supply Planning. It makes it possible to manage and plan your response and supply capacity as well as to optimise the deployment of your demand plan by offering multi-level planning across the entire supply chain.
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP). This module helps you bring together financial and operational planning in order to foster collaboration and align inventory, service levels and profitability.
- Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT). This component offers a real-time, 360° view of the entire supply chain, enabling proactive supply chain management and much more agile short-term responses.
What are the advantages of SAP IBP?
Because SAP IBP brings together the latest technologies and best processes for end-to-end supply chain management, deploying it at your organisation can offer a variety of advantages.
By using advanced technologies like predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, you can set up simulations and scenario comparisons, as well as alerts and other options that will help you stay ahead of the curve and improve your response capabilities. This makes it possible to act quickly whenever a supply chain disruption occurs.
Moreover, control KPIs make it possible for you to improve your organisation’s sustainability by providing information on whether your goods acquisition plan is sustainable, the impact that changing a supplier would have on your carbon footprint, and finding solutions that improve the current situation.
All of this helps you when it comes to decision-making and planning your supply channel, as you can track the progress of your supply plan implementation, its impact, and whether it’s meeting the corporate KPIs established.
Conclusions
As mentioned above, SAP IBP is a good cloud-based solution for advanced supply chain planning. Its advanced algorithm offers you a number of functionalities that will help you guarantee the continuity of your business in the face of different risks or changes. These include the ability to create simulations or scenario comparisons, alerts, or to manage and plan your response and supply capacity.
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