IBP
SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) is SAP’s cloud supply-chain planning solution, demand, supply, inventory and sales-and-operations planning, built on HANA for real-time, what-if planning.
Learn IBP through its core processes, its master data and configuration, and its integration with the rest of the SAP landscape.
- IBP plans the supply chain: forecasting demand, planning supply and inventory to meet it, running sales-and-operations planning…
- IBP integrates with S/4HANA (and other execution systems) exchanging demand, stock and orders, so plans drive execution and actuals…
- Demand Planning: forecasting.
- Watch out: Learning features, not the end-to-end process.
What IBP does
IBP plans the supply chain: forecasting demand, planning supply and inventory to meet it, running sales-and-operations planning (S&OP), and monitoring the supply chain via a control tower. It uses powerful in-memory analytics and an Excel-based planning interface for scenario and what-if planning.
Key capabilities
- Demand Planning: forecasting.
- Supply & Inventory Planning.
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).
- Supply Chain Control Tower: visibility and alerts.
How it fits
IBP integrates with S/4HANA (and other execution systems) exchanging demand, stock and orders, so plans drive execution and actuals feed back into planning. It succeeds much of the older APO planning and is central to modern digital supply chains.
Learning it
Learn IBP through its core processes, its master data and configuration, and its integration with the rest of the SAP landscape. Hands-on practice cements it.
Common pitfalls
- Learning features, not the end-to-end process.
- Ignoring integration with finance and neighbouring areas.
- Skipping master data/configuration the process depends on.