SAP Integrated Business Planning: How to get started

September 16, 2024

4 minutes

Uncertainty in demand, high service expectations, faster delivery times, environmental disruptions and a stronger focus on sustainability… supply chain management is becoming increasingly complex and its future will be progressively data-enabled. By digitizing and connecting everything, SAP Integrated Business Planning helps you align supply and demand. The result? You can prioritize certain production lines, ease planning, and adjust your operations to changing market needs.

How to get started with SAP Integrated Business Planning

SAP IBP allows you to make strategic and operational data-driven decisions in all aspects of your supply chain. Luckily, you don’t have to do it alone: Flexso helps you getting started with this innovative SCM tool. How you do this depends on the solutions you have in place already.

Don’t have a SCM solution yet? Consider moving to IBP and S/4HANA, with Sales and Operations planning as a possible starting point.
Do you have a light SCM solution? Start moving to mature IBP solutions and consider additional IBP innovations.
Already have an advanced SCM solution? Investigate the IBP innovations’ evolving potential to enrich your current model and use a roadmap to gradually replace and enhance your existing solutions.

Ready to optimize your supply chain?

Discover the 6 key features of SAP IBP that can transform your supply chain management

With SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), you gain insight in what your customers need and what you can supply – at every moment. The solution contains several components, each with its own key advantages.

Discover the 6 key features.

The Flexso way: your partner for SAP IBP implementation

There’s no doubt that SAP IBP is the go-forward solution for supply chain management. Flexso will guide you in three steps.

Build an IBP roadmap

By assessing your current supply chain solutions and your future targets, we uncover how SAP IBP can help you reach your goals. Our dedicated team will gladly assist you in building your supply chain roadmap to draw out the path towards your future IBP solution.

Validate the way forward with a proof of concept

Not ready to invest heavily in an IBP solution? No problem. We can build a proof of concept (PoC) on the Flexso IBP system that allows you to assess the solution for your specific business challenges. This way, you can discover and understand the possibilities offered by the tool and determine your path forward with minimum implementation effort.

Implement with expert guidance

Once you’ve decided to implement SAP IBP, Flexso will help you with every step of the process, from discovery to deployment. Our team combines many years of experience in:

Supply Chain Management projects
Cloud Integration, Cloud Identity, S/4HANA, SAP ECC and SAP SCM.

We want to share this expertise with you, to help you in both setting up IBP and getting the most out of it moving forward.

Why choose Flexso for SAP IBP?

Above all, we adapt the IBP implementation to your specific business needs to deliver an impeccable, on-time project. Furthermore, we are keeping up to date with SAP’s newest releases and innovations in the IBP landscape to help evolve your custom solution over time. You can count on us: we are your partner on the road to a better supply chain management solution.

The road to manufacturing excellence: follow the Drylock journey

Drylock achieves manufacturing excellence by combining SAP S/4HANA, EWM, and IBP for accurate forecasting, flexible planning, and a resilient supply chain. Read their story.