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by Best Online Career |Nov 11, 2022
IBP (Integrated Business Planning, Integrated Business Planning Cloud) is a new generation of supply chain planning platform provided by SAP to help enterprises carry out digital transformation and realize digital supply chain construction. It provides an end-to-end supply chain planning business process, supports real-time data analysis and rapid collaboration with partners.
As an enterprise supply chain collaborative planning platform, SAP IBP embeds rich financial indicators into the enterprise planning process and provides the following five relatively independent and tightly integrated modules for enterprises: Supply Chain Control Tower provides the overall supply chain network Visibility and supply chain performance management; Sales & Operations connects the strategic and tactical decision-making process of enterprises, providing enterprises with a coordinated and unified production and sales balance platform; Demand uses statistical forecasting and machine learning technology to improve demand management accuracy; Inventory (Inventory) optimizes the setting of safety stock in the entire supply chain network library for enterprises; Response & Supply (Response & Supply) provides enterprises with order-level supply plans, allocation plans, etc., to improve the ability to respond quickly to customers
IBP is the fastest growing product of its kind in the global market, and has been recognized by hundreds of customers in just a few years. Its customer base spans all major industries and is widely used. As the brain of the entire supply chain operation, planning is the key engine to ensure the healthy operation of the enterprise supply chain. However, it has the characteristics of involving a wide range of departments, complex processes, wide business scope, and difficult coordination. What kind of magic does IBP have that make outstanding companies in various industries flock to it? We summarize the top ten reasons below.
The five modules of IBP share a complete data model, which fundamentally avoids data inconsistency and data redundancy caused by the round-trip replication of data in multiple systems/files, and essentially provides one planning system, one truth. Based on a complete data model, IBP covers various planning businesses of the enterprise, from demand planning, inventory planning to cross-departmental production and sales balance, supply planning, and guides enterprise production planning and procurement planning, while supporting enterprise delivery planning and customer order confirmation, and finally Enterprise planning with the help of Ariba Collaboration Platform.
More and more companies have begun to emphasize the financial dimension of the supply chain in their supply chain planning, shifting from focusing on quantity to focusing on financial impact, ensuring that corporate profitability goals are achieved at the planning stage. IBP can not only connect strategic financial planning goals, but also include comprehensive price and cost information, support flexible definition of financial indicators planning logic according to customer characteristics, and examine the pros and cons of various simulation schemes from a financial perspective. Planners can flexibly call and display financial indicators to guide decision-making.
Planners are free to create any number of simulation schemes and conduct comparative analysis of multiple schemes. Combined with IBP's financial indicators, users can make decisions based on different dimensions such as profit, revenue, and profit margin. And any simulation is based on the complete data model of the whole network, which supports the enterprise's planning decision from local optimum to global optimum.
The supply chain performance assessment KPI embedded in the SCOR model in IBP supports enterprises to conduct supply chain performance management from the perspective of processes rather than departments. Flexible and customization reports and dashboards help companies gain end-to-end visibility into their supply network. Intelligent alerts monitor supply chain operations, automatically identify abnormalities, trigger alerts, and coordinate problem resolution.
IBP uses Excel and Fiori technology as the front-end display interface, which greatly improves the user-friendliness and improves the user's work efficiency. By integrating IBP's planning functions into Excel in the form of IBP add-ins, users can not only use any function in Excel (including using VBA), but also improve planning efficiency with the help of the powerful engine provided by IBP. Different from the traditional manual Excel method, all data in Excel in the IBP system comes from IBP's cloud platform, providing enterprises with a single source of truth.
With unified data modeling in IBP, users can decompose and aggregate data of any dimension and granularity in the system, and users only need to select the corresponding dimension. And the performance of HANA greatly accelerates the process, providing users with a real-time experience.
More and more companies have begun to emphasize the financial dimension of the supply chain in their supply chain planning, shifting from focusing on quantity to focusing on financial impact, ensuring that corporate profitability goals are achieved at the planning stage. IBP can not only connect strategic financial planning goals, but also include comprehensive price and cost information, support flexible definition of financial indicators planning logic according to customer characteristics, and examine the pros and cons of various simulation schemes from a financial perspective. Planners can flexibly call and display financial indicators to guide decision-making.
SAP 's Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions are consistently ranked as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. IBP has gradually developed a more advanced planning engine on the basis of SAP's deep accumulation in this field to ensure that it can help enterprises to create digital supply chain solutions, such as the industry-leading MEIO (multi-order inventory optimization) algorithm, machine learning algorithm, etc. At the same time, IBP also adopts the method of joint innovation with leading enterprises in various industries, and has accumulated rich industry characteristics. Enabling all customers to benefit from the best practices of supply chain operations from the world's leading companies.
