Key features of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Forecasting customer needs, supplying the right products at the right time and fulfilling orders on short, precise delivery schedules, can be a challenge. Innovative supply chain management through SAP IBP helps you digitize and connect all these processes to deliver a more meaningful customer experience.
Solving pain points with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
With SAP IBP, you gain insight in what your customers need and what you can supply, at every moment. The solution contains several solutions, each with its own key capabilities and advantages. Where you get started depends on your specific business needs and current painpoints. What’s your focus?
SAP IBP Control Tower
Looking for clear and complete information to manage your end-to-end supply chain? Keep track of key aspects of the supply chain across your business in SAP IBP Control Tower. Combining big data with the SAP HANA database, this solution allows you to track KPIs over time and manage exceptions via dynamic alerts. This solution provides visibility and analytics across your whole end-to end supply chain and helps monitoring and managing your supply chain network in real time.
SAP IBP Sales and Operations Planning
The ideal starting point to synchronize your supply and demand is the SAP IBP Sales and Operations Planning solution. It allows you to take data-driven strategic decisions: you can assess demand and supply situations on multiple product levels and across your supply chain – not merely based on quantity, but also from a cost and revenue perspective. In addition, IBP Sales and Operations Planning helps you collaborate with colleagues inside or outside your organization via the integration with Business Network. It provides you with standard available scenario planning and what-if simulation capabilities to assess different options in resolving demand or supply issues.
Get Started with SAP IBP in 3 Steps
SAP IBP helps you make smarter, data-driven decisions across your supply chain. With Flexso’s 3-step approach, tailored to your current solutions, we’ll guide you every step of the way toward a seamless implementation.
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SAP IBP Demand Planning
Increasing forecast accuracy by just 1% can have a drastic impact on your safety stock or service levels. To truly understand your time series, segment your data, and find the optimal forecasting method, IBP for Demand Planning is the way to go. In addition to statistical forecasting algorithms, it includes more advanced machine learning models as a standard feature. And by enabling SAP Joule in IBP, you get your own forecasting expert right at your fingertips!
Video: How SAP IBP for Demand helps planners make better decisions
In this video, Eric De Vriendt interviews Abdessamad Choukri from Flexso’s Supply Chain Management team about the capabilities of SAP IBP for Demand. They explore how planners can reduce manual effort and improve forecast accuracy.
SAP IBP Inventory Management
SAP IBP for Inventory Management helps you to determine optimal safety stock levels across your supply chain through a multi-echelon inventory optimization approach. In these turbulent times, it can help your business in covering against uncertainties in both demand and supply via embedded scenario planning and advanced analytics. This solution allows you to find the right balance between working capital and customer service.
Video: smarter Inventory Management
In this expert video, Eric De Vriendt from Flexso welcomes Robin Van Acker to discuss how companies can optimize their inventory planning using SAP IBP for Inventory. Learn how multi-echelon optimization and service level prediction can help reduce costs, improve product availability and drive customer satisfaction.
Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP)
Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) is a new way of doing MRP based on buffer stock and actual demand. It allows SAP IBP to support all steps of DDMRP and ensures a smooth material flow through the supply chain. Inventory levels can be reduced with strategic de-coupling point and buffer zone calculations. Last but not least, it allows you to simplify planning with directed replenishment activities, simplified supply prioritization and active buffer zone monitoring.
SAP IBP Response and Supply
Ad-hoc changes in production and distribution within a complex supply network often require high responsiveness and alternative solutions. SAP IBP Response and Supply gives you the necessary tools to tackle these challenging situations in real time.
The solution provides optimization capabilities across your entire supply chain, dynamically considering constraints as they arise. It also enables a seamless integration between your mid-term planning and short-term scheduling solution in S/4HANA, ensuring your entire organization is always working with the same real-time data.
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