Integrated Planning with SAP IBP

Enables the synchronization of sales, production, and financial plans to achieve an optimal balance between supply and demand.

This module supports the coordination of sales, production, and financial plans on a single platform. It enables companies to link strategic planning with operational decisions and simulate scenarios for various business models. By integrating real-time data and KPIs, companies can make informed decisions that take both demand and capacity planning into account. In addition, it offers collaborative features to involve various departments and external partners in the planning process. The result is a closer alignment of supply and demand, as well as improved cost and resource efficiency.

Provides accurate demand forecasts through advanced analytics and machine learning to prevent over- or underproduction.

This module helps companies accurately forecast demand based on historical data, external market information, and advanced algorithms. It uses machine learning and statistical models to identify trends and seasonal fluctuations. By integrating real-time and customer-specific data, companies can tailor their production and distribution plans more effectively. Forecasting accuracy is improved by incorporating strategic planning and market insights and by fostering collaboration between different departments within the company. This ensures that all perspectives are taken into account and that consensus is reached among sales, marketing, and demand planning. The module also offers the ability to simulate “what-if” scenarios to assess the impact of market changes or capacity constraints. This leads to optimized demand planning and a reduction in inventory levels and misplanning.

Optimizes inventory levels by calculating the ideal stock levels across the warehouse network to reduce costs while ensuring delivery capability.

With this module, companies can optimize their inventory levels by calculating the ideal stock levels throughout the entire supply chain. Multi-level optimization enables the calculation of inventory targets while taking into account interdependencies within the network. It considers factors such as safety stock, service level targets, and demand uncertainties. The integrated analysis tools help minimize inventory costs while ensuring delivery capability. It also supports inventory segmentation, allowing different product groups to be planned individually. This achieves a balanced approach between cost reduction and customer satisfaction.

Enables a rapid response to supply chain disruptions by simulating alternative scenarios and accelerating decision-making processes.

This module helps companies respond quickly to changes or disruptions in dynamic market environments. It enables real-time planning and prioritization of customer orders based on current capacities and material availability. By modeling locations and multi-level bills of materials, it creates an effective supply plan for the entire network. Companies can simulate multiple scenarios to identify the best options in the event of unexpected occurrences. By combining planning and production processes, delays can be minimized and customer requirements met more quickly. Planners can choose between three algorithm options: unrestricted heuristics, prioritization, or optimization. Prioritization and optimization enable the system to generate a feasible and constrained supply plan in a single step, taking all modeled constraints into account.

Provides real-time visibility and collaboration across the supply chain to proactively manage risks and bottlenecks.

SAP Supply Chain Control Tower creates comprehensive visibility across the entire supply chain and provides real-time insights into operational processes. It offers functions for monitoring KPIs, detecting deviations, and proactively managing disruptions. Companies can identify risks and vulnerabilities within the supply chain early on and take corrective action. Complex supply chains can be overwhelming due to a flood of information—machine learning algorithms for personalized notifications reduce information noise and enable more relevant insights. The Control Tower also supports collaborative decision-making by providing relevant data and analytics to all stakeholders. This leads to effective management and control of the supply chain.

SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) is a cloud-based solution for the integrated planning of supply chain and business processes. The software supports companies in sales, inventory, production, and procurement planning and creates a unified data foundation for informed decisions throughout the entire supply chain.

SAP IBP is particularly well-suited for companies with complex supply chains, multi-stage production processes, and high requirements for transparency, flexibility, and planning reliability. The solution is frequently used in industrial, manufacturing, consumer goods, retail, and logistics companies.

SAP IBP supports the entire sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, as well as demand planning, inventory planning, procurement planning, production planning, supply planning, and real-time supply chain monitoring.

SAP IBP enables integrated planning across business units, improves transparency throughout the supply chain, and supports faster, data-driven decision-making. Companies benefit from more accurate forecasts, optimized inventory levels, and better alignment of supply and demand.

Yes. SAP IBP is a cloud-based software solution from SAP. It enables companies to benefit from high scalability, regular innovations, and easy collaboration across locations and departments.

SAP IBP consists of several modules:

• SAP IBP for Sales and Operations (S&OP)
• SAP IBP for Demand
• SAP IBP for Inventory
• SAP IBP for Response and Supply
• SAP Supply Chain Control Tower

The modules can be used individually or as an integrated end-to-end solution.

With SAP IBP for Demand, companies can generate demand forecasts based on historical data, market information, and AI-powered algorithms. This enables them to identify demand fluctuations early on and improve planning decisions.

SAP IBP for Inventory calculates optimal inventory levels throughout the entire supply chain. It takes safety stock, service levels, and demand uncertainties into account to reduce inventory costs while ensuring delivery capability.

The SAP Supply Chain Control Tower provides real-time visibility across the entire supply chain. Companies can monitor key performance indicators, identify risks early on, and respond more quickly to disruptions or bottlenecks.

Yes. SAP IBP enables the simulation of various scenarios and “what-if” analyses. Companies can assess the impact of changes in demand, supply bottlenecks, or capacity constraints and make informed decisions.

With SAP IBP for Response and Supply, companies can simulate alternative planning scenarios, check material availability, and adjust priorities in real time. This enables them to proactively manage risks and make supply chains more resilient.

SAP IBP (Response & Supply) offers two key methods for automating supply planning. The Supply, Deployment, and Allocation Heuristic enables fast and pragmatic planning. It plans based on demand and bill of materials (BOM) data across the entire network, primarily achieving locally optimal results. Due to its high speed, it is particularly well-suited for daily replanning as well as for running “what-if” scenarios. The Supply and Deployment Optimizer, on the other hand, takes a mathematical optimization approach for the entire supply network. It takes capacity and cost constraints into account to either minimize total costs or maximize the service level. The optimizer is particularly well-suited for periodic, tactical, or strategic planning tasks, as well as for bottleneck allocation.

SAP IBP uses machine learning and advanced analytical techniques to improve demand forecasts, identify risks early on, and support planning processes with data-driven insights.

valantic supports companies from strategy development through implementation to ongoing operations. Its range of services includes workshops, proofs of concept, master data analyses, implementation, change management, training, and support.

Yes. Through its Application Management Services (AMS), valantic supports companies in the day-to-day operation of SAP IBP. This includes system monitoring, error analysis, support, and the continuous optimization of the solution.

A typical project begins with an analysis of existing processes and requirements. Next, the target state, roadmap, and implementation strategy are developed. After the solution is implemented, valantic supports companies with training, rollout, and ongoing support.