Use innovative tabular foundational models within SAP Integrated Business Planning
Our turnkey SAP Business Technology Platform based integration offers the convenience and versatility of pretrained tabular foundational models within SAP Integrated Business Planning user interfaces. The model can be run along with other forecast models and compared and evaluated seamlessly with standard processing steps and lifecycle planning. There is no user training required to utilize the models along with SAP IBP standard algorithms.
Overview
Sharpen your demand forecast with a pretrained foundation model
Add a pretrained foundation model as one more algorithm in your SAP IBP forecast model, where IBP's own best-fit scores it against your current methods using the very same error measures and evaluation you already trust. It is chosen only on the planning objects where it wins, so you gain a sharper forecast exactly where it helps while the rest of your plan stays untouched, re-evaluated automatically on every forecast run.
Adopt a foundation model with no new training, tuning, or tool requirements
Run a pretrained foundation model inside SAP IBP using your standard forecast model creation methods, with no model to train, no parameters to tune, and no data-science team needed. It applies the same preprocessing, postprocessing, and lifecycle settings as your other models, and runs from the tools planners already use: the Planner Workspace, the Excel add-in, or a scheduled background job.
Stay compatible with every SAP IBP upgrade and change you make
Registered as an algorithm inside your standard SAP IBP forecast models, the integration keeps working through every upgrade SAP ships to IBP and every change you make to your planning areas, key figures, and models. It runs at any periodicity, in any planning area, and is already compliant with SAP IBP harmonized planning area. The secure, scalable service that makes it work runs on SAP BTP, with nothing extra for your team to manage.
Details
Solution type
Extensions and Add-ons
Industry
Engineering, Construction, and Operations, Agribusiness, Consumer Products, Retail
Compatibility
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Features
Register a pretrained foundation model like a native SAP IBP algorithm
The pretrained model is added as an external algorithm directly in your SAP IBP forecast models, alongside your existing algorithms. There is no separate tool to deploy and no data to extract, so your team gains a modern forecasting method inside the system they already plan in, with minimal setup.
Let IBP best-fit choose the winning forecast per planning object
Added as one algorithm among several, the model is scored by IBP's own best-fit on each planning object and selected only where it beats other algorithms. Planners get the strongest baseline statistical forecast everywhere, with no risk of the new model degrading the results it does not improve.
Drive forecasts with multiple independent variables, not history alone
As a tabular foundation model, it weighs several independent variables together — price, promotions, weather, or any market signal — alongside demand history. Map each driver to an independent-variable key figure, and the forecast reflects what actually moves your demand, not just its past shape.
