SAP Integrated Business planning is SAP's new, state-of-the art platform for real-time, integrated supply chain planning – built on SAP HANA, for Cloud deployment. SAP IBP is being developed to deliver integrated, unified planning across sales and operations, demand, inventory, supply and response planning, as well as the supply chain control tower for dashboard analytics and monitoring.

SAP IBP comprises of the components displayed on the right:

IBP for Demand:

SAP Integrated Business Planning for demand is an end to end demand planning engine, combining “traditional” mid-to long term planning based on statistical methods with the possibility to run more accurate demand sensing models to improve your forecast accuracy for your short term planning horizon. The solution combines automated, exception-based planning processes as well as manual planning capabilities, powered by the speed of SAP HANA, and based on a user-friendly Microsoft Excel interface*.

SAP Integrated Business Planning for demand is part of the SAP Integrated Business Planning suite and as such enables end-to-end planning scenarios e.g. to gain full visibility throughout demand, inventory or supply for strategic decision making. Furthermore, it is fully integrated with systems like SAP ERP and SAP APO to receive necessary master and transactional data and send the improved forecasts

Duration

• 16 Hours

Course Contents

• Introduction to IBP for Demand
• Definition of IBP for Demand
• Definition of Demand Sensing
• Overview of Fiori
• How to Personalize your screen
• Model Components
• Master Data types Setup
• Characteristics/Attributes for Demand planning
• Key Figures for Demand Planning
• Planning area configuration
• Overview of Standard SAP6 Planning area for DP.
• Planning operators in IBP
• Change History in IBP
• Snapshots in IBP
• Forecasting in IBP
• Model definitions
• Forecasting algorithms
• Master data/ Transaction data loads in IBP.
• Alerts