Supply chains are becoming more complex as businesses expand globally and diversify their products and services. Changing customer expectations put great pressure on enterprises to accelerate their time to market. This results in countless challenges in supply chain planning and execution.
Organizations select SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to overcome supply chain planning challenges. The next challenge is how to leverage SAP IBP technology to connect strategic, tactical, and operational planning into one coherent process framework.
This session will cover today’s challenges of IBP implementation, and we’ll share our experiences and learnings from IBP implementation.
- Case for change:
- Business and IT objectives
- Solution for big rocks (biggest priorities)
- Case for scenario planning
- Real-time decision-making
- Stakeholders’ alignment:
- Leadership vision and end user’s perspective
- KPIs monitoring
- Early training to end users
- IBP landscape (2 tier vs. 3 tier)
- Planning model (centralized vs. decentralized)
- Deployment strategy across multiple business units
- SAP IBP process sequence
- Geo-wise deployment
- One of the biggest factors to derail SAP IBP implementation:
- Data
- Assessment/conflicts
- Strategy for integration multiple ERPs to IBP
- Data