SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) Course Introduction

SAP Integrated Business planning, also known as SAP IBP, is SAP?s new dimension platform for real-time, integrated supply chain planning, built on SAP HANA DB, for Cloud deployment. SAP IBP has been developed to deliver integrated, unified planning across sales & operations, demand, inventory, supply & response planning, as well as integrated alerts and monitoring, leveraging the supply chain control tower.

SAP IBP delivers a new dimension of excellent user experience and efficiency, leveraging real-time dashboards, advanced analytics, real time simulation, online collaboration and Microsoft Excel based planning interface.

Powered by HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning helps organizations to engage stakeholders across the hierarchy in a truly integrated planning process that aligns their business to profitable outcome. Presently SAP IBP has the following modules:

• IBP for Demand Management
• IBP for Supply Planning
• IBP for Inventory
• IBP S&OP ( Sales & Operation Planning)
• IBP for Response & Supply

SAP recently published Integrated Business Planning IBP release 1705. This release is a milestone release, as it included few new modules, that were earlier not available and have introduced many enhancements in the existing modules. So take advantage of powerful supply chain planning & analytics, with SAP IBP, in the cloud.

Integrated business planning (IBP) is the process of accumulating forecasts, inventory, supply plans, and financial plans into a single unified operational plan. SAP IBP supports and accelerates this process using a set of supply chain planning applications that run on SAP HANA in the cloud.