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Rehau Industries
SAP APO migration of sales and budget planning to SAP Integrated Business Planning
Implementation of SAP IBP for the gradual replacement of SAP SCM APO
Implementation Highlights
- APO replacement with several intermediate architectures
- Simulation framework for testing, comparing and evaluating new algorithms with productive data
- 10 forecast models with partly combined forecast algorithms for 2 different forecast levels with weekly run
- Additional forecasting algorithms, some with customizable parameterization via master data maintenance
- Automatic forecast model selection according to own set of rules
- Forecasting and planning at different aggregation levels with the option of checking and defining the optimum forecast level
- 17 % improvement in forecast quality compared to planning in APO DP thanks to modern and coordinated algorithms and the simple options for optimization
- Planning of product variants or products with multiple characteristics
- 10 forecast models run for 400,000 planning combinations in just approx. 1 hour
- High-performance integration of 1 million transaction data combinations per minute
- Reduced infrastructure costs thanks to cloud system
- Early and ongoing involvement of the specialist department
- Almost exclusively virtual collaboration
The combination of expert knowledge in the areas of SAP APO, integration and IBP processes was decisive for us to implement the project with CONSILIO.