IBP for Inventory

Training Details

SAP-IBP solution provides a unified model of demand, supply chain, and financial data for real-time analysis, enabling rapid decision making and quick responses to changes in your business. Real-time simulations enable planners to compare multiple plans and determine the most profitable one with which to move forward.

IBP for Inventory is the major component of IBP platform. SAP IBP for inventory allows companies to manage the increased supply chain risk due to economic uncertainty, escalating customer expectations, demand volatility, and supply variability they face. Optimizing inventory in multiple stages simultaneously and modeling for variability provide inventory targets that not only meet or exceed customer service levels, but also reduce working capital.


About the Course

This course will cover all the major theoretical concepts, design of the system, building up of a model, configuration and testing of the model.

The goals of this course are:

  • Overview of IBP for Inventory
  • How IBP for Inventory fits into the S&OP process
  • Required Attributes and Key figures
  • Master Data Setup
  • Executing IBP for Inventory


Duration

  • 15 Hours (2-3 Weekends - Saturday's and Sundays - 3 hours each day)


Pre-Requisites

SAP IBP for S&OP

Course Contents

  • Introductions to Supply Chain Management
  • Introduction to inventory optimization
  • IBP Planning process
  • Master data setup for Inventory optimization.
  • Develop inventory model for hte demand driven supply chain. Determine value of other improvements in forecast, supply, lead- time
  • Variability analytics for root cause analysis, reporting, and improvement
  • Configuration for IBP
    • Attributes and master data types
    • Key figures
    • Planning levels
    • Network Visualization
    • Inventory optimization algorithms