SAP Integrated Business Planning(SAP IBP)

Respond to new market expectations with real-time supply chain planning capabilities.Meet future demand & profitability with SAP Integrated Business Planning.

Powered by SAP HANA in-memory technology, this real-time supply chain planningsolution combines capabilities for sales and operations, demand, response & supply

planning and inventory optimisation.

SAP Integrated Business Planning

GAIN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF

OPERATIONS

Integrate performance data from various systems toget end-to-end supply chain visibility and runpowerful predictive analytics on SAP HANA.

EXTEND AND ENHANCE COLLABORATION

Leverage social collaboration capabilities, bothinternally and externally, to rapidly refine forecastingand demand management.

MAKE SMARTER, MORE INFORMED DECISIONS

Create what-if simulations to compare differentplans and understand the potential impactbefore making decisions.

ACCESS REAL-TIME MONITORING AND ALERTS

Advanced performance management, alertmanagement and analytics ensure a fast responserate and effective problem resolution.

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SAP IBP provides:

✓ Proactive issue resolution through increased visibility andorchestration

✓ Increased responsiveness through real-time decision-makingcapabilities

✓ Better decision making across the supply chain

✓ Lower inventory costs due to multitier visibility into inventory,demand and supply

✓ Improved customer service with effective alert and exceptionmanagement

SAP IBP enables companies to better understand, analyse, manage andrespond to variability within their supply chains.

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To keep up with complex, fast-moving markets, you need world-class supply chainplanning capabilities that engage and connect stakeholders across your organisation.With SAP IBP, take advantage of powerful supply chain analytics, what-if simulation,

alerts and more – all in the cloud.

Integrated Planning

• Plan at strategic and tactical levels andthen drill into operational details

Sales & Operations Planning

• Deliver a cross-departmental sales andoperations plan that balances inventory,service levels and profitability

Supply Planning

• Develop rough-cut capacity plans in abucketed time series supply plan

Inventory Optimisation

• Prescribe inventory targets to maximiseprofit, while buffering for uncertainty

Forecasting & Demand Management

• Get full demand transparency withshort-term, mid-term and long-termforecasting

• Take advantage of best-in-classcapabilities for demand sensing andstatistical forecasting

Response Planning

• Create order confirmation and anadopted supply plan based on prioritiseddemands, allocations and supply chainconstraints

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Supply & Allocations Planning

• Create allocations and a supply planbased on prioritised forecast demands andsupply chain constraints

Real-Time Supply Chain Management (SCM)

• Enable supply chain professionals tonavigate, analyse and profitably manageyour entire supply chain in real-time

• Get end-to-end supply chain visibilityand analytics

• Run what-if planning scenarios andsimulations

• Manage exceptions through alerts andtask management

• Harness social collaboration capabilitiesto accelerate planning and decision making

Deployment Options

SAP Integrated Business Planning is a set of cloud applications delivered via asubscription model. Each of the solutions can be subscribed to individuallyand integrated with the wider SAP Business Suite.

SAP Integrated Business Planning…

For Sales & Operations● Improve the speed, agility and accuracy of sale and operations planning.● Optimise product profitability and product mix, given supply and financial constraints.● Minimise costs by managing inventory levels and discover new opportunities for cost savings.

For Response & Supply● Generate feasible supply plans to meet demand with minimum inventory and efficient capacity

utilisation.● Gain upside revenue and competitive advantage by rapidly adjusting plans to seize demand

opportunities and respond to supply disruptions.

For Inventory● Set inventory targets for planners using best-in-class multi-echelon inventory optimisation,

improving service levels while using 10-30% less investment in buffer stock.● Make Sales & Operations level decisions and have updated inventory targets to the planners the

same day.

For Demand● Consolidating multiple demand signals to get the best picture of demand.● Use powerful statistical and pattern-based recognition algorithms.

Supply Chain Control Tower● Combine real-time visibility into the end-to-end supply chain with analytics to assess the impact of

exception conditions and make better decisions.● Cause-and-effect analysis and what-if simulations enables users to take effective corrective action

and respond rapidly.

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Technical Information

SAP Integrated Business Planning supports and accelerates the process of combining sales forecasts,inventory targets, supply plans and financial plans into a single operational plan, via a set of supply chainplanning applications that run on SAP HANA in the cloud.

● In-memory technology - Harness state-of-the art in-memory technology with SAP HANA.● Cloud-based deployment - Get up and running quickly and cost-effectively in the SAP Cloud.● Fast implementation - Leverage preconfigured process templates for an accelerated

implementation.● Award-winning user experience (UX) - Enjoy a unified, intuitive user experience with the SAP

Fiori UI and Excel-based planning and simulation capabilities.● Extensive integration capabilities - Simplified and flexible integration with any system

landscape using SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SAP CPI). For advanced response planningcapabilities, an open and tight order integration from on-premise source systems, such as SAPERP, using SAP HANA Smart Data Integration.

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Summary

✓ Integrate sales and operations planning, demand planning and sensing,response and supply planning and inventory optimisation.

✓ Use social collaboration capabilities to rapidly refine forecasting and demandmanagement.

✓ Get end-to-end supply chain visibility and run powerful predictive analytics onSAP HANA.

✓ Create what-if simulations to evaluate different plans and understand thepotential impact of decisions.

Find out how Invenio created a custom supply chain management solution

for Universal Music Group in this case study.

Why Work with Invenio?

Invenio Business Solutions is an award-winning UK based SAP Gold Partner with aglobal footprint. Since 2006, we havebeen developing solutions for globalcompanies to leverage their SAPinvestment to their full advantage,

with solutions that drive value andoutstanding results. We have createdstrategic relationships with some of theworld's leading organisations, fromUniversal Music Group and News UK to thegovernments of Saudi Arabia and TheMaldives.

We are customer focused

The customer always remains a focusand comes first in everything we do.

We are experts

We have to be the best at what we dowith a continuous process of learning andknowledge sharing.

We are flexible

We constantly adapt to the changingneeds of our customers.

We are value driven

We create innovative solutions to deliverreal business value.

We are bold

We boldly accept challenges provided to usby our customers and solve these with our'can do' attitude.

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We are transparent

Being transparent with suppliers,customers and our people will create trustand ensure a high ethical practice.

“Invenio are a reliable partner with an outstanding level ofcommon sense and dedication.”

Jens Kessler, Chief Information Officer at Universal Music Group

For more information contact

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