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