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steve_rampton2 · 10-28-2016

For those of you exposed to the full force of SAP marketing for SAP IBP, I’m sure you will have heard the phrase ‘financialising the plan’. But have you ever stopped to think about why this is beneficial and what this means in practice when it comes ...

steve_rampton2 · 10-24-2016

HiHas anyone managed to get the Forecast Error App working for Inventory Optimisation in 1608? We are getting an error message:270:not enough values: "SAPHANADB"."/IBP/CL_SAP_SFND_PLANPROFILE=>SOPPC_PP_PLAN_BATCH_MODE": line 75 col 9 (at pos 3698):Th...

steve_rampton2 · 09-14-2016

HiAnyone seen this error in the Excel AddIn? I receive the error while logging in to a planning area. I recently added the SCM operators to the planning area.Heuristics run fine in background but the interactive menu displays 'rubbish':IBP 6.2 system...

steve_rampton2 · 05-19-2016

As conceived by the Oliver Wight International modern Integrated Business Planning (IBP) means breaking down the functional silos that exist in many enterprises today and truly working together to achieve common objectives. In this article I want to ...

steve_rampton2 · 03-28-2016

The main user interface for SAP Integrated Business Planning is Microsoft Excel using a special Excel Add-In provided with the product. In this article I want to explore if and why this interface will satisfy the needs of planners. Let’s start by hav...

steve_rampton2 · 12-20-2016

Hi Carsten Thanks for the article! I am seeing strange behaviour when running an optimiser problem in our system. The system doesn't seem to be honouring the transport variable costs even though they have been set. It doesn't even report them in th...

steve_rampton2 · 12-02-2016

Excellent blog Jacky!

steve_rampton2 · 11-07-2016

HI AlecsandraYou need IBP 6.3 EP 696 to fix this issue. Cloud Ops applied it to our system last week and it has fixed both forecast error and IO CV calc apps.RegardsSteve

steve_rampton2 · 10-26-2016

Thanks Alecsandra. I have raised an incident but no response as yet.Kind regardsSteve

steve_rampton2 · 09-15-2016

Thanks Ivan.

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