End-to-end Supply Chain Planning SaaS SolutionSAP IBP
SAP® Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) covers the entire supply chain planning process from strategic business and budget planning to daily management and operational PSI planning. By linking internal and external demand data, such as customer and POS data, to internal and external supplier forecast data, SAP IBP can reflect highly accurate and fresh information in the supply chain plan and maximize the ability to respond to fluctuations and changes that affect the end-to-end business network.
Overview
SAP IBP is a cloud-based SaaS solution that leverages the high speed processing of the SAP HANA platform for planning from profit-based business and budget planning to volume-based PSI planning, and includes six solutions with various advanced planning logics and flexible and scalable data integration capabilities.
We create sophisticated and detailed supply chain plans that cannot be covered by core systems such as SAP S/4HANA alone.
Additionally, by synchronizing with other SAP solutions such as SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Ariba, we support the expansion and growth of your business network.
Product Features
Visualization across planning processes
Capable of supply chain planning across business processes. Supports decision-making to maximize overall profit by planning demand/supply and adjusting supply/demand based on financial business plans and profit targets.
Planning from various perspectives
Aggregation and breakdown of plan values by region, channel, customer, product category, product, and other various criteria are possible. Example: Automatic breakdown of annual plans by product category into monthly plans by product.
Advanced and sophisticated automatic planning logic
Demand forecasting using machine learning (ML), heuristics/optimizer (optimization engine) that takes constraints into account
Early start-up implementation template (Best practices)
By utilizing best practices such as data models and sample data, it is possible to shorten system implementation time and reduce costs.
Data linkage collaboration inside and outside the company
Manual upload of various data, automatic system linkage with other systems, and data sharing with external parties via a web browser are possible.
Various user interfaces
Always accessible via user-friendly interfaces such as Web UI, MS Excel, Mobile, etc.
Benefits
- Improving profitability through simulation and scenario comparison
- In addition to feasible planning that takes into account customer delivery dates and production capacity, simulation of multiple scenarios with different supply chain models and master settings enables decision-making from the perspective of higher profitability.
- Global inventory optimization
- Instead of optimizing inventory for each location, it is possible to set a standard inventory (safety stock) that takes into account multiple locations/multilayers as a whole.
Optimize global inventory to maintain and improve customer service levels by executing planning based on the standard inventory.
- Reducing risk in the future supply chain
- Increase visibility of the entire supply chain, whether between departments or inside or outside the company. Reduce risks by planning ahead for future risks such as profit losses due to currency fluctuations or supply capacity shortages due to sales increases.
- Improving the efficiency of supply chain planning operations
- Centralized management of information stored in multiple systems throughout the supply chain in a single system in the cloud.
Based on the latest information, the system executes demand and supply plans, inventory plans, and other cross-departmental plans in one integrated process, thereby reducing wasteful time required for inter-system and inter-departmental coordination and streamlining the entire planning process.
B-EN-G Consulting Services
We have a deep understanding of the on-site operations of manufacturing, from procurement to production, logistics, sales, and support, and have more than 20 years of experience as a system integrator (SIer.) This experience includes the introduction of Japan's first ERP system for the manufacturing industry. We provide consistent support from SCM conception to system implementation and beyond.
*We are the first to start supporting SAP IBP implementation in Japan.
Download Document
Download the SAP IBP leaflet.
- End-to-end Supply Chain Planning SaaS Solution SAP IBP leaflet
