Academy · Supply Chain Planning & Logistics · 200 Practitioner
SAP Integrated Business Planning Essentials: Demand, Supply, S&OP and the Excel Add-In
Introduces SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for practitioners joining an APO replacement or a greenfield planning project: planning areas, key figures, versions and scenarios; statistical forecasting and demand sensing; time-series supply planning and the monthly S&OP cycle; the Excel add-in and Planner Workspaces; and the CI-DS and real-time integration with SAP S/4HANA. Written so testers and process owners can verify planning results with the same confidence as transactional data, using Contoso Motor Co.'s move from APO DP and SNP to IBP.
- 63 minutes
- 6 lessons + quiz
- Supply Chain Planner, Manufacturing Practitioner, Process Owner, Solution Architect
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain IBP's planning model: planning areas, key figures, attributes and versions
- Walk through demand planning, supply planning and S&OP cycles
- Use the Excel add-in and web planning views
- Describe the IBP to S/4HANA integration
- Identify what must be verified in a planning run
Sources and further reading
- Using Configuration to Model a Business (SAP IBP) · SAP Learning
- Learning About SAP IBP · SAP Learning
- Managing Demand Sensing · SAP Learning
- Configuring an SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel · SAP Learning
- Real-Time Integration (order-based supply planning) · SAP Learning
- SAP IBP Excel Add-In Feature Deep Dive (version 2508.2.0) · SAP Help Portal
- Integrating SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP IBP using SAP Integration Suite · SAP