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Top Ten reasons to choose SAP IBP (Integrated Business Plan Cloud)

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This is a magical article, an article that breaks away from bad taste, an article that can help your business save millions / millions of costs, and an article that makes your planners and executives love to meet each other too late. And here there is only one protagonist-SAP IBP.

IBP (IntegratedBusiness 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 that supports real-time analysis of data and rapid collaboration with partners.

As an enterprise supply chain collaborative planning platform, IBP embeds rich financial indicators in the enterprise planning process, providing enterprises with the following five relatively independent and closely integrated modules: supply chain control tower (SupplyChain Control Tower) provides the overall visualization of the supply chain network and supply chain performance management; sales and Operations (Sales & Operations) connects the enterprise strategic and tactical decision-making process, providing enterprises with a coordinated and unified production and marketing balance platform Demand (Demand) improves the accuracy of demand management with the help of statistical forecasting and machine learning technology; inventory (Inventory) optimizes the safety inventory setting of the whole supply chain network library for enterprises; response and supply (Response& Supply) provides enterprises with order-level supply plans, allocation plans, etc., to improve the rapid response ability to customers.

IBP is the fastest growing product of its kind in the global market, and it has been recognized by hundreds of customers in just a few years. Its customer base is widely used in various industries. Planning, as the brain of the whole supply chain operation, is the key engine to ensure the healthy operation of the enterprise supply chain. However, it has the characteristics of a wide range of departments, complex processes, a wide range of business, difficult coordination and so on. What kind of magic does IBP have to attract excellent companies from various industries to it? We have summed up the following ten reasons.

1 end-to-end process brings single source of truth

The five modules of IBP share a complete data model, which fundamentally avoids data inconsistency and data redundancy caused by data round-trip replication in multiple systems / files, and essentially provides oneplanning system and one truth. Based on the complete data model, IBP covers all kinds of enterprise planning business, from demand planning and inventory planning to inter-departmental production and marketing balance and supply planning, and guides enterprise production planning and procurement planning, while supporting enterprise delivery planning and customer order confirmation. Finally, it plans the enterprise with the help of Ariba collaborative platform.

2 IBP embeds rich financial indicators

More and more enterprises begin to emphasize the financial dimension index of the supply chain in the supply chain planning, from focusing on quantity to paying attention to the financial impact, that is, to ensure that the enterprise profit target is achieved in the planning stage. IBP can not only link up with strategic financial planning objectives, but also contain comprehensive price and cost information, support the flexible definition of financial index planning logic according to customer characteristics, and examine the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of simulation schemes from a financial perspective. Planners can flexibly invoke and present financial indicators to guide decision-making.

3 flexible simulation and end-to-end visibility

Planners are free to create any number of simulation schemes and carry out comparative analysis of multiple schemes. combined with the financial indicators of IBP, users can make decisions based on different dimensions such as profit, income, profit margin and so on. And any simulation is based on the complete data model of the whole network, which supports the enterprise's planning decision from local optimization to global optimization.

The supply chain performance appraisal KPI of IBP embedded with SCOR model supports enterprises to carry out supply chain performance management based on process rather than department. Flexible custom reports and dashboards help enterprises to provide end-to-end visibility of the network. Intelligent alarm monitors supply chain operation, automatically identifies anomalies and triggers alarms, and coordinates problem solving.

4 friendly user experience

IBP uses Excel and Fiori technology as the front-end display interface, which greatly improves the operation-friendliness and improves the work efficiency of users. By integrating the planning functions of IBP into Excel in the form of IBP plug-ins, users can not only use any function in Excel (including the use of VBA), but also use the powerful engine provided by IBP to improve planning efficiency. Different from the traditional manual Excel method, all the data in the Excel in the IBP system comes from the cloud platform of IBP, providing single source of truth for enterprises.

With unified data modeling in IBP, users can decompose and aggregate data in any dimension and granularity in the system, and users only need to check the corresponding dimensions. And the performance of HANA greatly accelerates the process, providing users with a real-time experience.

Another advantage based on Excel is that users can get any report (such as inventory report, capacity report, plan accuracy report, etc.) in real time, and customers can flexibly adjust the report content to speed up the decision-making process based on the needs of management.

5 the deep accumulation of SAP in the supply chain

SAP's supply chain management (SCM) solution has been a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. On the basis of inheriting the deep accumulation of SAP in this field, IBP has gradually developed a more advanced planning engine to help enterprises build digital supply chain solutions, such as industry-leading MEIO (multi-level inventory optimization) algorithm, machine learning algorithm and so on. At the same time, IBP also adopts the way of joint innovation with leading companies in various industries, accumulating rich industry characteristics. Enable all customers to benefit from best practices in supply chain operations of the world's leading companies.

6 rich cases, proven industry value

Other people's businesses are using it. IBP currently has more than 400 customers around the world, including leading companies in consumer goods, high-tech, manufacturing, retail, life medicine and other industries, including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Colgate, Nestl é, Monsanto, Pfizer, Daimler, Whirlpool and other well-known companies. After continuous verification by customers in many industries, IBP is becoming more and more mature. Any enterprise can select the target enterprise from the existing cases of IBP and can create a solution suitable for the characteristics of the enterprise. At the same time, the joint innovation with the leading giant enterprises ensures the advanced nature and applicability of the scheme.

7 embedded machine learning function

At present, demand awareness technology based on machine learning has been embedded in IBP to help enterprises significantly improve the accuracy of demand planning, reduce inventory and improve efficiency. And more and more machine learning algorithms are being added to the IBP solution, and some of the solutions are being verified by customer actual data. For example, through machine learning, to help users optimize some parameter settings (such as lead time), to help users optimize new product import modeling and automatic exception handling and decision-making suggestions through machine learning.

8 seamless integration with SAP and non-SAP systems

Using the integrated services (CPI-DS, formerly known as HCI) provided by the SAP cloud platform, the IBP platform can be seamlessly and bidirectionally integrated with customers' existing systems, whether it is SAP or Non-SAP systems, ensuring the benefit of the enterprise's existing investment. On the one hand, if IBP is integrated with SAP system, we also provide a preset template to accurately mapping the existing SAP system with IBP, based on which customers can flexibly adjust; on the other hand, CPI-DS adopts a graphical interface to further help customers reduce the workload of integration and accelerate the progress of the project.

9 Fast iteration of cloud products

As a public cloud product, IBP is updated quarterly. Through rapid iteration, new functions are continuously added to meet the changing needs of enterprises, minimize the customized development workload of customers, provide unique requirements to customers in the way of standard functions, simplify customer operation and maintenance costs and reduce the total cost of ownership. For example, IBM is deepening its integration with Ariba to help enterprises expand planning collaboration from internal collaboration to business network collaboration, and constantly optimize and improve the maturity of the supply chain.

10 clear roadmap and SAP strategic products

As a key product of SAP future strategy and one of the key components of customer building dual-mode system, mature IBP is absorbing more and more customer feedback and growing. In order to help customers clearly understand the direction of SAP's investment in IBP, we provide a clear product roadmap and show our customers the way forward in the rapid iteration of cloud products. Compared with competitors, SAP IBP's roadmap is clearer, which also enhances customer confidence and further expands IBP's customer base.

In the past 20 years, Chinese enterprises have quickly completed the information construction with the help of SAP ERP and achieved remarkable results. According to the research of international third-party institutions, the construction of ERP has consolidated the foundation of enterprise informatization, and in the future transformation and innovation of enterprises, the construction and optimization of supply chain will become a new goal for enterprises to create strategic commanding heights. If ERP is compared to the torso of an enterprise, which ensures the normal operation of the enterprise, then supply chain planning (IBP) is the brain of the enterprise and the source for the enterprise to maintain competitive advantage. As Christopher, a master of supply chain management, said, the competition of enterprises in the future will be the competition of the supply chain.

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