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Streamlining Supply Chains with SAP IBP and Process AlignmentDec 16, 2024 — To remain competitive, enterprises must adopt next-generation cloud-based ERP solutions like SAP S/4HANA, as traditional systems are inadequate for the agility, scalability, and real-time data processing required in today's complex business environment and supply chains, with organizations like Venetia Partners facilitating seamless implementations and optimizations of these advanced tools.
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Transforming Financial Operations with Integrated PlanningNov 26, 2024 — A leading manufacturer successfully streamlined its operations by transitioning to a cloud-based integrated planning solution with GyanSys, leveraging SAP IBP and SAC Planning to unify financial processes, enhance forecasting accuracy, simulate complex scenarios, and gain real-time insights, ultimately fostering agility and responsiveness in a dynamic market.
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Growing US-Based CPG company Turns to Argano to Overhaul Supply Planning and Inventory ManagementNov 3, 2024 — A U.S.-based packaged food company overcame supply chain and inventory management challenges by partnering with SAP Gold Partner Argano to optimize SAP systems, achieving a 98% optimization rate in finished goods supply planning and positioning itself for continued growth.
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Transitioning from APO to SAP IBP with CloudPathsMay 22, 2024 — SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) has long been a staple for real-time supply chain management, enabling coordination from suppliers to consumers. However, with SAP phasing out support for APO by 2027, users face potential operational risks without ongoing maintenance solutions. Transitioning to SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) emerges as a strategic move to preserve key functionalities of APO, such as supply network and demand planning, while ensuring technological advancements and support. SAP IBP expands these capabilities by integrating financial and operational planning, aligning strategic plans with business objectives. This shift not only overcomes the limitations of APO’s compartmentalized approach but also enhances planning capabilities across various departments, including finance and sales. CloudPaths, led by CTO Tushar Bhalla, offers expertise in guiding and implementing this transition, emphasizing IBP’s role in promoting a unified strategy that integrates supply chain processes with broader business planning, including revenue, COGS, and margins. This represents a significant evolution from traditional models, enabling more cohesive and strategically profound operations management.
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SAP Supply Chain Process Reengineering with NTT DATA Business SolutionsMar 7, 2024 — Reengineering supply chain activities can strengthen organizational performance through accelerated delivery times, cost reduction, and enhanced efficiency, and can also proactively addresses inherent uncertainties in the supply chain. Therefore, strategic supply chain reengineering becomes a proactive approach to mitigate these challenges and sustain a competitive edge in the market.
My Supply Chain Group (MSCG), a part of NTT DATA Business Solutions and an SAP consulting company, specializes in supply chain process re-engineering and application implementation services with an exclusive focus on SAP Solutions like Integrated Business Planning (IBP), S/4HANA Advanced Planning, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, SAP Transportation Management (TM), SAP Ariba, and Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO).
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IBM Practices What it Preaches in Supply Chain TransformationMar 7, 2024 — Modern supply chain management systems extend beyond conventional logistics, impacting factors like product and service excellence, delivery efficiency, expenses, customer satisfaction, and ultimately, overall profitability. This evolution has spurred global supply chain leaders to reevaluate traditional methods, recognizing that clinging to outdated practices poses significant risks amidst disruptions. However, despite progress, many supply chain operations still heavily depend on traditional, manual, and paper-based procedures, particularly in transportation and warehousing. Acknowledging the market's inclination towards enhanced supply chain capabilities, IBM has intensified its expertise and is propelling the next era of SAP consulting and technological innovation to shape and implement digital transformation for SAP. Here, IBM's advanced AI is pivotal, complemented by other Digital Supply Chain solutions such as Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Transportation Management (TM), Yard Logistics (YL), Digital Manufacturing (DM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM).
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Purpose-built “Powered” Supply Chains with KPMGFeb 26, 2024 — When embarking on supply chain transformation, organizations often look for results while minimizing risk, along with streamlined and compliant technology. From supply chain initiatives focused on customer experience metrics, responding to a supply continuity issue to product movements, organizations often need a guided process with supply chain assets and accelerators to jump start their supply chain transformation. To enable organizations to transform their business functions, KPMG firms have designed a suite of proprietary tools and methodologies known as Powered Enterprise. This methodology encompasses multiple dimensions. Primarily, it functions as an implementation methodology, addressing diverse facets and the complete process taxonomy crucial for standard business operations. While it does not encompass every aspect, it furnishes a diagnostic overview and scrutinizes specific areas such as SAP implementations and supply chain applications.
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Probabilistic Supply Chain and Demand Forecasting with SAP IBP: Deliver Results Using Data ScienceFeb 23, 2024 — SAP introduced the concept of Probabilistic Supply Chain into its SAP IBP product in the current and future versions with adaptive and very powerful algorithms for large data sets. Certainly, AI has been around within the SAP landscape for a while with extremely powerful algorithms in the SAP BW-Data Mining suite and SAP HANA PAL library.
In this article, SAPinsider expert Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge will explore the factors users should consider when choosing products like SAP IBP. They include finding the right tools, addressing the scope of the issue, acceptable levels of accuracy, data reporting, and more.
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End-to-End Scenario Planning with SAP IBPFeb 9, 2024 — Supply chain disruptions are becoming a more prevalent part of daily life for may companies around the world. Geopolitical tensions, rising costs, and disorganization can hinder all different types of supply chains, making it nearly impossible for a business to operate effectively.
To help companies improve their outlooks, SAP offers SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP). It is an advanced planning and optimization solution that offers end-to-end supply chain planning capabilities in an integrated fashion.
SAPinsider Supply Chain Management expert Dhaval Desai shared a simple and straightforward guide for businesses on how scenario planning can be applied in supply chain management and how SAP IBP can be effectively leveraged to achieve it.
In this article, readers will learn how to identify key drivers of supply chain strategy, asses the impacts of different scenarios, analyze risk, communicate and collaborate better across supply chains, and integrate with decision makers in a more effective manner.
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Implementing SAP IBP Analytic Stories to Improve Supply ChainJan 11, 2024 — he SAP IBP Analytics Stories App, while incorporating several features from the SAP SAC product, remains exclusive to the SAP IBP product. Consequently, not all functionalities of SAP SAC are present in SAP IBP Analytics Stories. However, like all SAP products, enhancements are expected over time and SAP IBP Analytics Stories roadmap is still valid on the SAP IBP 2311 release forward. The performance of SAP IBP Analytics Stories is influenced by the setup of the SAP IBP box, including memory factors, data volume, and the complexity of the Planning Area. This tool marks a notable advancement in Dashboarding and reporting for SAP IBP, offering considerable versatility. It allows for the creation of key figure calculations independent of the Planning Area, eliminating the need for Planning Area activation. Analytic Stories can be tailored for different segments of Supply Chain implementations, providing the ability to navigate between pages and view Supply Data, Demand, or more sophisticated data science analyses of supply chain processes and algorithms.
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