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

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  1. A Look into the New World of SAP Integrated Business Planning

    Reading time: 28 mins

    Learn an approach for evaluating migration from SAP Advanced Planning and Organization (SAP APO) to SAP Integrated Business Planning based on two real-life case studies. Learn how some implementation considerations of a cloud-based planning solution such as SAP Integrated Business Planning are different from a traditional SAP APO implementation. Key Concept Planning operator functions or…...…
  2. How to Achieve Optimal Inventory Levels with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Inventory

    Reading time: 20 mins

    Learn how to achieve optimal inventory levels for raw materials, work in process, and finished products across the supply chain with SAP Integrated Business Planning. Key Concept The unified planning area, SAP Integrated Business Planning’s standard planning area, provides end-to-end business processes related to all the technical details of a planning area in SAP Integrated…...…
  3. Manage Role-Based Authorization for Cloud-Based SAP Integrated Business Planning

    Reading time: 22 mins

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

    Reading time: 44 mins

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

    Reading time: 23 mins

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

    Reading time: 16 mins

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

    Reading time: 24 mins

    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…...…
  8. Integrate Your SAP Data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

    Reading time: 26 mins

    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

    Reading time: 14 mins

    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…
  10. Integrated Business Planning for Demand Transparency

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Purchasing power and information are shifting to end consumers and customers, who increasingly demand individualized products and services delivered with a high sense of urgency. Read this article to learn how SAP’s cloud-based solutions for integrated business planning and supply chain monitoring enable companies to transform their supply chains by facilitating real-time decision making, providing…