Will AWS Supply Chain Compete With SAP IBP?

⇨ AWS launched its AWS Supply Chain solution during Re:invent 2022

⇨ The solution promises to provide comprehensive integrated supply chain visibility, planning and analytics capabilities

⇨ The solution offering may end up competing with SAP IBP

Among many other features that SAP ICP has for integrated demand planning, inventory management is a critical one. Respondents highlighted inventory management as one of the key focus areas in our recent research on supply chain planning in the cloud. With the increased complexities in the supply chain and the severe disruptions that many supply chains have run into, this increased focus on inventory management is not surprising. For users of SAP IBP the good news is that the tool has a very sophisticated inventory optimization module. As API BP for inventory leverage is a multi-echelon inventory optimization approach and helps calculate and optimize inventory targets based on various parameters and other characteristics of the organization's supply chain network. This article discusses some key inventory optimization features of SAP IBP.