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

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  1. Best Practices for Implementing Sales and Operations Planning

    Reading time: 14 mins

    The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process can bring about substantial improvements in the way a company manages its supply chain. Learn the building blocks of the S&OP process, what it needs in terms of technology, and how this is supported in different SAP solutions. Key Concept Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is the process…...…
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    Achieve Excellence in Sales and Operations Planning

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Sales and operations planning (S&OP) functions live at the tactical level of the planning hierarchy in an environment that synchronizes demand, inventory, and supply plans and considers profit objectives. S&OP has been discussed in multiple forums over the years because of the value it delivers to the organization as whole. In this article you will…
  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. How to Build a Resilient and Efficient Supply Chain With Robust Sales and Operations Planning Using SAP IBP S4HANA

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Sales and operations planning (S&OP) helps companies estimate the demand for their products/services at an aggregate volume level using some form of forecasting method and incorporating inputs from the sales and marketing teams. Many organizations, in their race to embrace technology, ignore a key ingredient for the successful implementation of their S&OP: organizational readiness. Drawing…
  5. 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…...…
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    How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization

    Reading time: 21 mins

    SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, demand planning allows a business to perform forecasting of their materials while considering all the factors that affect the demand. Demand planning is periodic and contains multi-step processes such as data gathering, statistical analysis, reviewing market intelligence reports, and performing adjustments against budgeted forecast to drive material requirements planning. SAP…
  7. 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…...…
  8. How to Configure and Test Flexible Planning to Improve Performance and Increase Profits

    Reading time: 22 mins

    A good conceptual understanding of the Flexible Planning component of SAP Sales and Operations Planning (SAP SOP) helps reduce the number of cyclic iterations in Information Structure configurations and test its impact on the planning type before choosing the final design. Learn the necessary steps to configure Flexible Planning in your SAP system, including configuring…...…
  9. 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…...…
  10. Advanced Demand Planning with S&OP and SAP HANA

    Reading time: 20 mins

    Learn how to meet the challenges of integrating SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) statistical forecasting with SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and SAP HANA. Key Concept SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process. In SAP S&OP,…...…