Inaccurate forecasts can lead to poor decision-making, inefficient resource allocation, reduced customer satisfaction, decreased revenue and profitability. SAP IBP. solves inaccurate forecasts by: Using advanced analytics: It leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and statistical modeling to generate accurate forecasts. Integrating internal and external data: It combines internal data (e.g., sales, marketing, and financial) with external data (e.g., market trends, weather, and economic indicators) to create a comprehensive forecasting model. Enabling real-time data: It provides real-time data and insights, allowing organizations to respond quickly to changing market conditions. Supporting collaborative planning: It facilitates collaboration between teams, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned and working towards a single, accurate forecast. Automating forecasting processes: It automates forecasting processes, reducing manual effort and minimizing human error. Providing scenario planning: SAP IBP enables organizations to create multiple scenarios, allowing them to prepare for different potential outcomes.

Transform your supply chain with SAP IBP| Infosys

Overview

Unlock the potential of your organization by delivering real-time insights and improving execution capabilities throughout your supply chain. The cloud-based SAP IBP solution improves your ability to anticipate supply chain bottlenecks, identify potential alternatives, forecast accurately, and respond effectively and efficiently.

Move your Supply Chain Planning to digital cloud with Infosys and SAP IBP

Optimize Your Supply Chain with SAP IBP

Enterprises are facing challenges with customer order fulfillment despite sufficient inventory. They often struggle to address capacity constraints in production, distribution, and transportation. Infosys has successfully helped many organizations resolve these issues in demand planning, inventory optimization, and Sales & Operations Planning.

The Infosys Digital Supply Chain Planning group, part of Infosys Cobalt, leverages SAP IBP to assist enterprises in overcoming these challenges.

Areas in Supply Chain where we offer our services:

Forecasting and Demand Management: SAP IBP integrates historical data, market trends, and advanced predictive analytics so that you can generate more accurate demand forecasts.
Response and Supply Planning: SAP IBP takes capacity constraints, lead times, inventory levels and other constraints into account so that you can create optimized production and distribution plans to meet customer demands.
Inventory Planning and Optimization: SAP IBP. helps you maintain optimal inventory levels by balancing the trade-offs between carrying costs, stockouts, and service levels.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP): SAP IBP provides a unified platform for collaborative planning, allowing different departments to align on strategic goals, and operational plans, ultimately allowing the organization to plan to “one number...
Demand-driven Replenishment: SAP IBP supports Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) by strategically positioning inventory buffers within the supply chain. This approach helps absorb variability and uncertainty, enhancing overall efficiency and responsiveness.
Supply chain visibility: SAP IBP offers control tower capabilities that provide real-time supply chain visibility and enhanced analytics to quickly respond to changing market conditions and evolving customer requirements.

The value proposition of SAP IBP includes Integrated Planning, Real-time Insights, Advanced Analytics, Collaboration, Flexibility and Scalability, Cost Savings, Improved Forecast Accuracy, Demand Supply matching and Enhanced Supply Chain Visibility

TALK TO OUR EXPERTS

We provide end-to-end services that encompass assessment and advisory, solution definition, development, deployment, upgrades, and optimization for SAP IBP.

Our offering is supported by a large pool of experienced and certified consultants who can help organizations achieve their goals in a cost-effective manner.

We can evaluate your current landscape and design your future state architecture and solution footprint in just 4 to 8 weeks. With experience working with over 100 clients across diverse industries, we bring industry insights and best practices to help you achieve your organizational goals and objectives.

Our tools, accelerators, and strategic alliances help ease the transformation journey for clients. With a curated collection of industry-specific user stories, process house and other artifacts, we can promptly engage in a transformation program and work towards accelerating the transformation of an organization. Additionally, we assist clients in their change management journey by providing best practices and guidance from change management SMEs.

Sub Offerings

Forecasting and Demand Management

Automated statistical forecasting and insight from AI can help you better predict demand, improve fulfillment, and reduce inventory for a more sustainable and risk-resilient supply chain.

Response and Supply Planning

Quickly react to the changing demands, generate constrained plans using multiple algorithms, collaborate with suppliers to get feasible supply plans. Demand Supply matching is the hallmark of Response and Supply Planning this solution.

Inventory Planning and Optimization

Instead of relying on tribal knowledge or single echelon inventory optimization, use the SAP IBP for Inventory which generates safety stock and target levels using Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) techniques . This helps achieve desired customer service levels while reducing inventory levels typically required to meet those targets.

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

Sustainable, risk-resilient planning is within reach with SAP IBP S&OP. Unify financial and operational planning and align inventory with service levels for greater profitability.

Challenges & Solutions

Disparate Planning Processes

Disparate planning processes refer to the use of separate, disconnected systems and tools for different planning functions within an organization. This can lead to data silos, lack of visibility, inefficient processes and poor decision-making.

SAP IBP integrates all planning functions into one platform, providing a single source of truth. It solves disparate planning processes by

Unifying planning processes: Brings together financial, sales, and operational planning into a single, integrated platform.
Providing real-time data: It offers real-time data and analytics, enabling organizations to make informed decisions.
Streamlining processes: It automates and streamlines planning processes, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency.
Enabling collaboration: It facilitates collaboration across departments and teams, ensuring alignment and consistency.
Supporting advanced analytics: It provides advanced analytics capabilities, enabling organizations to simulate and predict future scenarios.

Inaccurate Forecasts

Inaccurate forecasts can lead to poor decision-making, inefficient resource allocation, reduced customer satisfaction, decreased revenue and profitability. SAP IBP. solves inaccurate forecasts by:

Using advanced analytics: It leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and statistical modeling to generate accurate forecasts.
Integrating internal and external data: It combines internal data (e.g., sales, marketing, and financial) with external data (e.g., market trends, weather, and economic indicators) to create a comprehensive forecasting model.
Enabling real-time data: It provides real-time data and insights, allowing organizations to respond quickly to changing market conditions.
Supporting collaborative planning: It facilitates collaboration between teams, ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned and working towards a single, accurate forecast.
Automating forecasting processes: It automates forecasting processes, reducing manual effort and minimizing human error.

Providing scenario planning: SAP IBP enables organizations to create multiple scenarios, allowing them to prepare for different potential outcomes.

Lack of Real-time Visibility

Lack of real-time visibility can lead to delayed decision-making, inefficient resource allocation, reduced agility, decreased customer satisfaction. SAP IBP solves this by

Providing real-time data: It offers real-time data and insights, enabling organizations to respond quickly to changing market conditions.
Integrating data from multiple sources: It combines data from various sources (e.g., ERP, CRM, and supply chain systems) into a single, unified platform.
Offering real-time analytics: It provides real-time analytics and reporting, enabling organizations to monitor and analyze their business in real-time.
Enabling real-time collaboration: It facilitates real-time collaboration between teams, ensuring that all stakeholders have access to the same accurate and up-to-date information.
Supporting mobile access: It provides mobile access, enabling users to access real-time information and make decisions on-the-go.
Automating data processing: It automates data processing, reducing manual effort and minimizing delays.
Providing customizable dashboards: It offers customizable dashboards, enabling users to create personalized views of their business in real-time.

Lack of proper collaboration in supply chain

Insufficient collaboration can lead to siloed decision-making, inefficient processes, poor communication, reduced productivity, decreased customer satisfaction. SAP IBP. solves this by

Providing a single, unified platform: It brings together all planning functions and stakeholders into a single platform, enabling collaboration and alignment.
Enabling real-time communication: It facilitates real-time communication and feedback between teams, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
Supporting cross-functional planning: It enables cross-functional planning, allowing teams to work together to create integrated plans.
Offering collaborative analytics: It provides collaborative analytics, enabling teams to work together to analyze and interpret data.
Automating workflows: It automates workflows, reducing manual effort and ensuring that all stakeholders are involved in the planning process.
Providing mobile access: It provides mobile access, enabling users to collaborate and access information on-the-go.
Enabling social collaboration: It enables social collaboration, allowing teams to share ideas and insights through social media-style platforms.

Complex Supply Chains leading to manual or offline planning

Complex supply chains can lead to issues in modeling scenarios in the planning tool thereby leading to planners using tribal knowledge, manual files. This leads to inefficiencies, reduced agility, high dependency on few skilled planners and risks. SAP IBP. helps by .

Providing end-to-end supply chain mapping and visibility: It can model all types of customers, vendors, plants, subcontractors and offers real-time visibility into the entire supply chain, enabling organizations to track and manage their supply chain more effectively.
Multiple planning engines: It provides multiple planning engines for supply planning suited as per the complexity and requirement. SAP IBP optimizer can perform constrained planning for the most complex supply chains or IBP Finite Heuristics can be used to fulfill demand by prioritizing them. It also provides simple unconstrained planning. Shelf life and characteristics-based planning can also be used making it an extremely powerful tool for any size and complexity of the organization.
Enabling integrated planning: It integrates supply chain planning with other business functions, such as sales, marketing, and finance, to create a unified plan.
Supporting advanced analytics: It provides advanced analytics capabilities, enabling organizations to simulate and predict supply chain scenarios, and make informed decisions.
Automating supply chain processes: It automates supply chain processes, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors.
Enabling real-time collaboration: It facilitates real-time collaboration between supply chain partners, enabling organizations to respond quickly to changing market conditions.
Providing scenario planning: It enables organizations to create multiple scenarios, allowing them to prepare for different potential supply chain disruptions.