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SAP Integrated Business Planning

16th August 2016

Mike Taggart

Principal Consultant SAP Education - Australia

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Why do we need yet another planning system?

Planning systems

Supply chains must be agile to solve complex problems in real time:

» Short-term forecast accuracy is a huge challenge for companies and forecast errors directly lead to access inventory or stock outs..

» How do you make sure that the right inventory is at the right place at the right time to maintain your customer service levels?

» Uncertainty about future demand and supplier reliability increases the complexity of modern enterprise supply chains.

Current challenges

What is SAP Business Integrated Planning?


It consists of five separate applications, each licensed separately:

» Supply Chain Control Tower provides advanced dashboard capabilities across all applications.

» Sales & Operations Planning is a key component, that provides core functionality and is used in most projects. It allows interactive and background planning to be done with all applications and helps you integrate Demand, Supply, Inventory and Finance in one application.

» SAP Integrated Business planning was originally named as SAP “Sales & Operations Planning”, but that was changed from version 4.0, as additional applications were added and it’s capability extended.

Is a HANA cloud based planning tool, mainly intended for Supply Chain Management

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Capabilities:

» Integrated Business Planning for inventory allows you to optimize service levels by creating multi-tier inventory targets. The reduction of inventory has a major impact on achieving profitability goals.

» Integrated Business Planning for demand creates full demand transparency for all products and timeframes. The application includes predictive analytics capabilities for demand sensing and statistical forecasting methods to increase forecast accuracy.

» Integrated Business Planning for response and supply can be used as an extension of the sales and operations planning process. It can show visibility in the supply network across locations and through levels of the bill of material (BOM). It can provide a constrained demand plan as an output for further supply processing in another planning system like SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) or SAP Enterprise Central Component (ECC).

Currently has three specialized applications in addition to S&OP and SC Control Tower



Allows you to do far more than current planning systems


The web interface:

» Has a Fiori entry screen which takes you to:

» Dashboards/analytics

» Collaboration

» Configuration

Has two interfaces – the web and Microsoft Excel


The Excel interface is:

» Typically used by planners and can be based on SAP templates, with or without charts.

» Enabled by EPM, so you can also use advanced Excel functionality such as formulae and macros.


Integrated Business Planning for Finance is:

» Also known as IBPF and SAP BPC for S/4 HANA.

» Based on BPC and BW Integrated Planning.

» Aimed at financial planning, not Supply Chain.

» Covered in the AC120 course.

» Frequently confused with Integrated Business Planning.

It is not SAP “Integrated Business Planning for Finance”.


HANA Views

Single ERP Table “ACDOCA”

MultiProvider

VirtualProvider

HANA Views

InfoObjects

Single In-Memory Cube:

Plan Data

ERP Tables Master Data

Analysis Office Add-In (EPM Envisaged)

Integrated Business Planning for Finance

Where is it being used?

SAP Integrated Business Planning – Live S&OP Customers

Confidential - (OK to present to customers; DO NOT email or provide hardcopies externally)

SAP Integrated Business Planning – Customers by application


SAP Integrated Business Planning – Customer Industries


How can Learning Hub help you gain skills in IBP?


There are six topics in the Learning Map:

» The first two cover basic and advanced configuration, as used for Sales & Operations Planning.

» The other four topics cover each of the specialized applications.


Learning Hub has an IBP Learning Room giving you access to all IBP courses

IBP700 Supply Planning

(soon to be scheduled)


The process - first time:

» Log onto the Learning Hub

» Access “All Available Content > Learning Content”

» Search for “IBP”

How to access the IBP Learning Room


https://accounts.sap.com/saml2/idp/usso/Learning_Hub?sp=https://www.successfactors.eu/learninghub


The process - first time:

» Limit your search to “Learning Room”.

» Two learning rooms will be shown – select the first one.

» Join the room using your normal procedure, or email us for an invitation to join.

» You must have already have a Learning Hub subscription.

How to access the IBP Learning Room


Mike TaggartPrincipal Consultant SAP Education – Australia

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Thank you

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