Response and supply planning
Empower planners with AI-driven supply planning
Create decision-centric constrained supply plans that satisfy demand while fulfilling inventory target objectives.
Multilevel supply planning
Create an effective supply plan for your entire network by modelling across locations and multilevel bills of materials. Planners have the flexibility to decide which constraints to include in a feasible supply plan.
Unconstrained heuristic, prioritisation, or optimisation algorithm options
Prioritisation and optimisation algorithms enable SAP Integrated Business Planning to perform a feasible and constrained supply plan in just one step while considering all modelled constraints.
Empower planners with post-planning decision intelligence
Make smarter and faster decisions with AI-assisted supply optimisation results analysis.
Visibility into supply optimisation runs
Integrated Business Planning utilises gen AI to analyse planning run logs, address encountered issues, provide detailed explanations and resolution suggestions, and compare different planning runs to derive meaningful insights.
Greater supply planner productivity
By comparing different planning scenarios, planners can quickly understand the results of a supply optimiser run and reduce lost sales and inventory costs.
Empower planners with collaboration and simulations
Collaborate with suppliers and respond to short-term disruptions and changes.
Medium- to long-term rough-cut capacity planning
Send component requirements to suppliers, utilising their firm commitments as constraints for supply plans based on real data instead of static assumptions.
Scenario simulation
Run and compare what-if scenarios and analyse differences via dashboards or detailed tables. Easily share your findings and updates with other planners in your organisation to enable cross-team collaboration.
Empower planners with executional alignment
Create consistency with synchronised planning and post-production activities.
Supply planning, production planning, and detailed scheduling
After determining the source production plant and planned order quantities, a handover process converts them into scheduling orders that SAP S/4HANA can sequence.
Synchronised planning
Enable real-time and bi-directional data transfer between SAP S/4HANA and SAP IBP through standard integration cycles.
Deployment and load-building capabilities
Create a feasible distribution plan downstream through the supply chain network.
Explore all capabilities of integrated business planning
Sales and operations planning
Unify financial and operational stakeholders in one S&OP process to foster collaboration –aligning inventory, service levels, and profitability.
Demand planning
Automate the statistical forecasting process and apply machine learning algorithms to predict demand.
Inventory planning and optimisation
Establish optimal inventory targets that enable you to maximise profits, while ensuring customer service levels.
Supply chain visibility
Gain end-to-end visibility of your supply chain and detect potential disruptions with SAP Supply Chain Control Tower.