SAP Integrated Business Planning for demand

Having worked in the Demand Planning arena with FMCG companies for the last 3-4 years, I have come to realize that one size fits all does not work for defining the demand planning solution for an FMCG organization. In a global CPG company, different... Read More »

Overview Business teams need to work cohesively to achieve objectives that are laid out by the leaders. Enterprises operate in dynamic environments where multiple variables influence micro and macro outcomes. How do we then plan our businesses in... Read More »

Last year, SAP released a feature to call custom forecasting algorithms running on external systems and receive the results in real-time in SAP IBP. This feature brings great help in integrating the results of your custom algorithms with SAP IBP in... Read More »

The theory of forecast consumption is explained here. In this blog, I wanted to share examples to show the effect of configuration parameters through different scenarios. This blog only focuses on Forecast Consumption for TS Supply Planning.... Read More »

The term “Demand Sensing” can be used for different things, depending on the context. This blog aims to clarify any confusion about what we mean by Demand Sensing in SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, what value it brings and... Read More »

Looking to optimize your supply chain planning? Look no further than SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain. With a wide variety of embedded and side-by-side intelligent use cases, SAP IBP AI offers master data anomaly checks, machine... Read More »

It is easy to share my experience with ABC segmentation but not with XYZ segmentation. When I started my SAP career (a decade ago) with master data review and upload every time business will not provide the ABC indicators, to be honest, I do not... Read More »

Do you agree writing a blog post is not that easy because every individual has a different perspective? Sometimes after publishing the post need to check if any points to be changed or added based on comments. I usually do modifications based on... Read More »

Introduction: Realignment is one of the processes available in IBP to move/copy data. It is generally used to accommodate for changes in Master data within Supply Chain. Along with the change of Master Data, realignment also helps in copying key... Read More »

Introduction: Here is an example to demonstrate the various ABC/XYZ segmentation methods available in IBP. While there is a lot of information already available on ABC/XYZ, I am sharing an example to hopefully help you understand it better. I would... Read More »