Modern User Experience Drives ROI in Supply Chain Planning
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Exploring how cloud transformation will deliver the real, measurable business value you seek, leveraging SAP Integrated Business Planning Modern User Experience Drives ROI
in Supply Chain Planning
Exploring how cloud transformation
will deliver the real, measurable business
value you seek, leveraging Integrated
Business PlanningSupply Chain Planning | Integrated Business Planning
in Supply Chain Planning
Exploring how cloud transformation
will deliver the real, measurable business
value you seek, leveraging Integrated
Business PlanningSupply Chain Planning | Integrated Business Planning
2 | 7Modern User E x perience Drives ROI in S upply Chain Planning
The Hidden Cost of Inefficiency in Your Planning Team
The success of any planning transformation depends on the
adoption of solutions. If planners don’t embrace the tool
they’re given, it won’t deliver the promised ROI.
Resistance to modernization only leads to
fragmented and abstract processes, causing a
domino effect of waste and inefficiency:
• Excessive inventory
• Missed revenue
• Lost productivity
• Rising costs
Plus, of course, non-adoption means your
technology investment is wasted!
SAP Integrated Business Planning has been
designed to eliminate these risks, enabling
enterprise-wide decision making and increasing
efficiency and accuracy. For example, Microsoft saw
a 75% increase in on-time planning* following
deployment.
A modular, flexible and intuitive design makes SAP
IBP a cloud platform that planners actually want to
use. By removing manual workarounds, you speed
up execution, while improving confidence in
outputs. Crucially, your teams
are freed up to use their time on strategic tasks
aligned to organizational vision.
Unlike rigid or non-aligned tools, SAP Integrated
Business Planning means higher adoption
rates for real workflows. So, leaders see faster time-
to-value and, ultimately, a lower total
cost of ownership (TCO) across the
modernization project.
When planning teams remain stuck with outdated systems – sometimes out of a
strong attachment to familiar spreadsheets – their time is used up on low-value
tasks, such as manual fixes, firefighting and laborious data cleaning.
The Hidden Cost of Inefficiency in Your Planning Team
The success of any planning transformation depends on the
adoption of solutions. If planners don’t embrace the tool
they’re given, it won’t deliver the promised ROI.
Resistance to modernization only leads to
fragmented and abstract processes, causing a
domino effect of waste and inefficiency:
• Excessive inventory
• Missed revenue
• Lost productivity
• Rising costs
Plus, of course, non-adoption means your
technology investment is wasted!
SAP Integrated Business Planning has been
designed to eliminate these risks, enabling
enterprise-wide decision making and increasing
efficiency and accuracy. For example, Microsoft saw
a 75% increase in on-time planning* following
deployment.
A modular, flexible and intuitive design makes SAP
IBP a cloud platform that planners actually want to
use. By removing manual workarounds, you speed
up execution, while improving confidence in
outputs. Crucially, your teams
are freed up to use their time on strategic tasks
aligned to organizational vision.
Unlike rigid or non-aligned tools, SAP Integrated
Business Planning means higher adoption
rates for real workflows. So, leaders see faster time-
to-value and, ultimately, a lower total
cost of ownership (TCO) across the
modernization project.
When planning teams remain stuck with outdated systems – sometimes out of a
strong attachment to familiar spreadsheets – their time is used up on low-value
tasks, such as manual fixes, firefighting and laborious data cleaning.
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Designed for
Adoption; Delivering
for Your Business
At SAP, we take a strategic approach to
solving the problem of low adoption.
SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
has been structured for ease of both
deployment and day-to-day use,
specifically to eliminate adoption risk.
IBP’s adaptive design and functionality provides your
team with a unified and intuitive planner workspace
that is easily customizable by individual users and
decision makers. And because ensuring adoption is
the key to boosting enterprise productivity, a key
solution feature is being able to use a Microsoft Excel
interface.
This is no mere gimmick, but a game-changing strate-
gic decision. IBP meets planners where they already
work – banishing reluctance by making adoption a
natural extension of their existing process.
Customer success
story #1
Larsen & Toubro Construction and Mining
Business leveraged SAP IBP to replace wasteful
manual processes managing 70,000 machinery
components across more than 100 locations.
This has proved transformational for its spare
parts and service operations:
forecast accuracy
“Automation in demand forecasting and
inventory optimization has improved efficiency,
minimized stockouts, and enhanced supply
chain visibility. Real-time insights now enable
smarter decision-making, ensuring seamless
service delivery [which] drives business growth
and elevates customer satisfaction.”
K.A. Sravan Kumar, General Manager & Head
– Product Support, Service Stations, L&T CMB
≈75%
first pick rate (overall)
>95%
obsolescence on
annual purchase
<1%
Designed for
Adoption; Delivering
for Your Business
At SAP, we take a strategic approach to
solving the problem of low adoption.
SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
has been structured for ease of both
deployment and day-to-day use,
specifically to eliminate adoption risk.
IBP’s adaptive design and functionality provides your
team with a unified and intuitive planner workspace
that is easily customizable by individual users and
decision makers. And because ensuring adoption is
the key to boosting enterprise productivity, a key
solution feature is being able to use a Microsoft Excel
interface.
This is no mere gimmick, but a game-changing strate-
gic decision. IBP meets planners where they already
work – banishing reluctance by making adoption a
natural extension of their existing process.
Customer success
story #1
Larsen & Toubro Construction and Mining
Business leveraged SAP IBP to replace wasteful
manual processes managing 70,000 machinery
components across more than 100 locations.
This has proved transformational for its spare
parts and service operations:
forecast accuracy
“Automation in demand forecasting and
inventory optimization has improved efficiency,
minimized stockouts, and enhanced supply
chain visibility. Real-time insights now enable
smarter decision-making, ensuring seamless
service delivery [which] drives business growth
and elevates customer satisfaction.”
K.A. Sravan Kumar, General Manager & Head
– Product Support, Service Stations, L&T CMB
≈75%
first pick rate (overall)
>95%
obsolescence on
annual purchase
<1%
Modern User Experience Drives ROI in Supply Chain PlanningHow Usability Translates to
Measurable Performance
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Here are more case stories showing how the user-friendly features of SAP Integrated Business Planning trigger a
clear progression to measurable outcomes for companies like yours:
ADOPTION OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
PLANNER
PRODUCTIVITY
ENTERPRISE-LEVEL
BUSINESS VALUE
Customer success
story #2
Microsoft has mitigated supply chain risk by deploy-
ing SAP IBP’s Big Data and machine learning forecast-
ing capabilities. Because teams actually use the tool,
MS has been able to replace a ‘disconnected and
manual planning system’ to directly improve
performance:
forecast accuracy
+75%
availability
99%
manual planning
processes
-50%
Measurable Performance
4 | 7
Here are more case stories showing how the user-friendly features of SAP Integrated Business Planning trigger a
clear progression to measurable outcomes for companies like yours:
ADOPTION OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
PLANNER
PRODUCTIVITY
ENTERPRISE-LEVEL
BUSINESS VALUE
Customer success
story #2
Microsoft has mitigated supply chain risk by deploy-
ing SAP IBP’s Big Data and machine learning forecast-
ing capabilities. Because teams actually use the tool,
MS has been able to replace a ‘disconnected and
manual planning system’ to directly improve
performance:
forecast accuracy
+75%
availability
99%
manual planning
processes
-50%
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Customer success story #3
Customer success story #4
Shutterfly has enabled customization and user satisfaction at scale for its home-design photo book and
card-creation services, by adopting SAP IBP for increased supply chain planning and efficiency. During
peak season, it can now process 125,000 orders per day.
Another business to boost planner-level productivity and so realize broader business value is Coca-
Cola Europacific Partners. High adoption of more effcient ways of working has transformed supply chain
planning, and led to more reliable outcomes enterprise-wide:
“The ability to scale product lines, along with integrated supply chain planning and operations,
allows Shutterfly to meet customer demands and maximize profitability.”
Hai Zeng, Principal Business Systems Analyst, Shutterfly Inc.
“Customer Demand & Supply Planning enables us to have increased visibility of what is
happening in the business... an end-to-end synchronization of our processes across all the
different business units, and the possibility, with the analytical tools, to make the best
decisions real-time.”
José Antonio Echeverria, Chief Customer Service & Supply Chain Officer, CCEP
forecast accuracy
with embedded AI
+6% manufacturing adherence
and efficiency improvement†
+10%
Customer success story #3
Customer success story #4
Shutterfly has enabled customization and user satisfaction at scale for its home-design photo book and
card-creation services, by adopting SAP IBP for increased supply chain planning and efficiency. During
peak season, it can now process 125,000 orders per day.
Another business to boost planner-level productivity and so realize broader business value is Coca-
Cola Europacific Partners. High adoption of more effcient ways of working has transformed supply chain
planning, and led to more reliable outcomes enterprise-wide:
“The ability to scale product lines, along with integrated supply chain planning and operations,
allows Shutterfly to meet customer demands and maximize profitability.”
Hai Zeng, Principal Business Systems Analyst, Shutterfly Inc.
“Customer Demand & Supply Planning enables us to have increased visibility of what is
happening in the business... an end-to-end synchronization of our processes across all the
different business units, and the possibility, with the analytical tools, to make the best
decisions real-time.”
José Antonio Echeverria, Chief Customer Service & Supply Chain Officer, CCEP
forecast accuracy
with embedded AI
+6% manufacturing adherence
and efficiency improvement†
+10%