5 Steps of S&OP to Achieve an Integrated Business Plan

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  1. Manage Role-Based Authorization for Cloud-Based SAP Integrated Business Planning

    Learn how to effectively manage stakeholder access for SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations 4.0. Key Concept SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process on the cloud. In SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales...…

  2. Improve Visibility of Critical Components Planning with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Sales and Operations

    Learn how to meet the challenges of visibility and planning of critical components by leveraging SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations. Key Concept SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process. In SAP Integrated Business...…

  3. How to Implement the Linear Regression Technique in SAP Integrated Business Planning for Demand

    SAP Integrated Business Planning for demand is the equivalent of SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Demand Planning. While SAP APO has an out-of-the-box forecast model that uses a linear regression technique to forecast, SAP Integrated Business Planning does not have it. The purpose of this article is to understand the solution approach to...…

  4. Extended Supply Chain Management with SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP SNC

    Learn how to use SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) and SAP Integrated Business Planning to enable collaboration scenarios in extended supply chain management to monitor your supply chain more efficiently and be alerted in case of irregularities. Key Concept SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) has been used by many companies to support collaboration...…

  5. SAP Integrated Business Planning for Sales and Operations: Q&A on How to Optimize Demand and Supply Planning and Increase Profitability

    When it comes to your supply chain, accuracy, efficiency, swift and informed decision making, and timely responses and adjustments to market and business changes are critical — but a lack of communication between sales, marketing, finance, and operations can be a significant impediment to these goals. The ability to effectively and simultaneously evaluate data from...…

  6. Integrate Your SAP Data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

    The purpose and the semantics of transaction level data in SAP ERP can differ significantly from what business users expect to see in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation when they perform their forecasting and consolidation activities. Taking these differences into account when integrating data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is often more complex than...…

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    5 Steps of S&OP to Achieve an Integrated Business Plan

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    Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a set of decision-making processes that regulate and coordinate overall capacity, inventory levels, and lead times across engineering, projects, manufacturing, finance, supply chain, and operations based on forecast information about the market. S&OP focuses on changes from the previous plan and links that with the strategic goals of cost…

  8. Leveraging SAP HANA to Enhance SAP Business Planning and Consolidation’s Capabilities

    SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 10.1, along with its host environments (SAP Business Warehouse [SAP BW] and SAP HANA) provide abundant design choices to meet today’s business planning needs. See a comparison between the various models available in BPC to facilitate appropriate model selection based on business priorities. The potential to enhance BPC capabilities...…

  9. Cameron Achieves Complete Plant-Level Visibility with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

    In the midst of a business reorganization, Cameron, a Schlumberger Company and manufacturer in the oil and gas industry, embarked on a company-wide standardization project to simplify and streamline both its SAP ERP and reporting processes as well as eliminate manually intensive processes that resulted from disconnected legacy systems. This project involved consolidating to five…

  10. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft: How They Differ

    Compare the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for Microsoft and the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver environments, and examine the strategies associated with this technology. Review the concept of the platform as the main issue behind a company’s reason for implementing one of these versions because of data integration issues,...…