Making the Journey to SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

⇨ At the Mastering SAP Gold Coast event, Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) shared how it evolved from supply chain planning with Excel to a cloud-based model leveraging SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)..

⇨ ANSTO is able to perform planning tasks previously impossible in an Excel environment, such as customer categorization.

⇨ With IBP, the organization has been able to reduce its dependence on imports and is saving at least $1 million per year.

At this year’s Mastering SAP Gold Coast conference, Cornelia Boonstra, leader of integrated business planning at ANSTO, shared the story of how the organization evolved from supply chain planning solely with Excel spreadsheets to a cloud-based model leveraging SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP). In this highlight from the presentation, you will learn how ANSTO was able to move on from an Excel-based solution to SAP’s cloud-based IBP solution, which carried the promise of true statistical forecasting capabilities and the ability to generate forecast error calculations. You will gain key lessons from ANSTO's first failed deployment, as well as insights into the benefits that IBP can offer to users.