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Optimize Sales and Operations Planning with SAP IBP

Using SAP IBP, organizations can transform their Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes to achieve improved forecasting, increased agility, and better decision-making. By unifying financial and operational stakeholders in one S&OP process, organizations can foster collaboration and align sales plan, inventory, service levels, and profitability. Leveraging SAP IBP allows organizations to break down silos, streamline planning, and consolidate efforts into a unified plan, ultimately driving business benefits.

Key Benefits of SAP IBP for Sales and Operations Planning

SAP IBP helps in S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) in the following ways:

  • Integrated Planning: It unifies S&OP with other planning processes, ensuring alignment and collaboration across the organization.
  • Real-time Visibility: It provides real-time insights into demand, supply, and inventory, enabling informed decision-making.
  • Predictive Analytics: Its advanced analytics capabilities help forecast demand and detect potential issues.
  • Automated Scenario Planning: It generates multiple scenarios, enabling users to simulate and compare different business scenarios.
  • Collaborative Platform: It facilitates cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment and buy-in from all stakeholders.
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making: It provides a single, trusted source of data, enabling data-driven decision-making.
  • Streamlined Processes: It automates and streamlines S&OP processes, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency.
  • What-If Simulation: Its simulation capabilities allow users to test different scenarios, enabling informed decision-making.
  • Alerts and Notifications: It provides real-time alerts and notifications, enabling proactive decision-making.
  • Cloud-Based Deployment: Its cloud-based deployment enables easy access, scalability, and flexibility.

S&OP is the earliest module that was available in SAP IBP. Since 2013, for over a decade, Infosys has been implementing and supporting this module for our clients. We have developed a best practices framework along with a curated set of assets from process house, and user stories to test cases for all the modules in SAP IBP to support your transformation journey.

Infosys Best Practices - S&OP Framework

Sales and Operations Framework

Infosys Expertise in Implementing S&OP for Fortune 500 Companies

We have successfully implemented S&OP for several Fortune 500 companies, delivering benefits by helping them balance demand and supply. As part of our S&OP implementation we have developed several unique solutions for our clients including a Price Elasticity solution for CPG clients, forecast rollover based on seasonal periods rather than calendar periods, and forecasting based on lunar months specifically for countries in APAC and MEA, among others.

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