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With SAP IBP, you create transparency about demand, inventories and capacities along your supply chain.

Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP)

Lost a major customer? Lost a market share? Surplus and obsolete inventories?

Do you know this? Gaps in the information and planning process cause unstructured communication between areas of the supply chain. The organization is not provided with the latest planning data in a timely manner, forecast quality drops and business development is impaired in the long term. The solution is SAP IBP, real-time planning in an integrated planning environment.

With SAP IBP, you create transparency about demand, inventories and capacities along your supply chain. The cloud-based APS solution supports you with innovative forecasting methods and planning algorithms for production, distribution and procurement. Targeted inventory optimization ensures delivery readiness across your entire value network. By simulating various planning scenarios, you maintain an overview of the consequences of changes and decision alternatives within the framework of what-if analyses. With an IBP-supported Sales & Operations process, you strike a balance between production utilization, inventory optimization, delivery service levels and profitability. You enable a uniform planning and procurement system in your company without technical islands. We support you with many years of experience in the implementation or optimization of SAP IBP.

Technological advantages thanks to SAP IBP:

  • Functions for simulations and planning scenarios support rapid decision-making processes
  • SAP HANA technology also enables high-performance creation and use of very large planning models
  • Uniform, intuitive user interface and integration with Excel
  • Uniformly used, common data model
  • End-to-end transparency through preconfigured and web-based analysis tools, control functions and a comprehensive collaboration platform
  • Real-time analysis of daily developments
  • "State-of-the-art" planning processes

SAP IBP Module

  • Infinite and finite production and distribution plans for medium to long-term planning
  • Automatic product mix adjustment and multi-sourcing in response to changes and disruptions in the network
  • Serving fluctuating customer requirements in good time
  • Proactively avoid short-term disruptions in the network
  • Medium to long-term forecast
  • Comprehensive statistical forecasting models
  • Role-based local or central planning functions
  • Manual requirements planning
  • Transparency in the determination of demand quantities through a combination of statistical forecasting models
  • Integration of external information and collaboration in a global planning team
  • Multistage inventory optimization across all areas of your supply chain
  • Optimized use of available stock, improved service level and improved delivery capability
  • Execution of what-if analyses to reconcile changed sales volumes 
  • IBP for Inventory calculates your safety stocks across your entire network and all BOM levels
  • Creation of exception messages, analyses and reports
  • Clear dashboards
  • Integration with APO and ERP
  • Key figures: SCOR, POF, C2C and general supply chain management indicators
  • Possibility of an Ariba connection
  • Comparison of "Demand" and "Supply"
  • Alignment of supply chain planning with financial targets
  • Determination of restrictions and exceptions in the supply chain
  • Consolidated cross-divisional overall plan
  • Simulation of demand and supply reconciliation for processing bottlenecks  

With the SAP cloud solution Integrated Business Planning (IBP), we can provide our customers with even more flexible and intuitive IT tools for planning their supply chain processes than before.

Christoph Habla, Partner & Head of IBP CONSILIO GmbH Schedule a free expert talk

CONSILIO IBP Potential Check

Make an appointment with our SAP IBP experts for a potential check in preparation for your APO-IBP migration project. Together we look at your current system landscape and identify pain points and targets in the areas of demand, supply, S&OP and inventory planning. Based on this, we provide an initial recommendation for action.

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