SAP Integrated Business Planning Pros and Cons

It helps us to model different time varying inputs for inventory targets and predict coresponding service levels. We use the product every day and customer support is responsive when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system can be very complex and sometimes we get incorrect safety stock recommendations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

An informative data archive with easy traceability and automation built-in does help much in execution.

In my case, it helps to auto-generate global STO with a single page view and a few clicks in less than a minute. Amazing!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only a handful of developers know well enough to automate SAP for home-grown needs. SAP expertise became a rare niche even within the developer community. Connection to these expertise would be so much helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP IBP provides comprehensive end-to-end planning for a wide range of sectors, Demand Planning, Master Production Schedule for production, material explosion, inventory policy computation, and DRP. It is a basic and easy-to-use application that can be linked to ERPs using simple SQL queries. The product was up and operating in a matter of days, and the user-friendly design made it simple for my team to get started straight immediately. The program also has a number of features and capabilities that have allowed us to adopt SAP Integrated Business Planning and optimize our supply planning procedures, saving us time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although capacity management elements are enabled in SAP IBP, there is still room to make it completely useful for some sectors that share capacity across different products. We've proposed certain improvements to SAP Integrated Business Planning, and we know they're on the way, but those improvements have been slow to come to fruition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although SAP IBP is highly built and advanced to cover all areas of predicting variables, complex applications are difficult to use. SAP IBP included all of the measurements I expected and all of the algorithms I could have worked on myself. I really enjoy the "reorder point" and related features. The tool is extremely useful for creating various Supply Chain response scenarios, allowing decisions to be made based on concrete data. Demand planning is quite exact, it allows for the simulation of various scenarios, and the data display is straightforward and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Several upgrades do not appear to operate properly with my Mac operating system. I had to revert to an earlier version and forgo the upgrades. Additionally, I'm not sure why the "to receive" column is occasionally reset to 0. I believe it would be beneficial to create a web interface that allows you to simply access information from a basic browser. I'd want to see the tool's usability and user experience improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP Integrated Business Planning is useful for trade promotion planning, demand management, future financial calculations, profit loss, inventory management, and effective manufacturing material planning. SAP Integrated Business Planning is a fantastic tool for preserving massive amounts of data/multi-linked tables, etc. We mostly use it in our project to track inventory, sales, refunds, and so on, and the simplicity of modification made it helpful across the business for testing in any setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of user awareness to understand which algorithm was used to achieve the outcome necessitates extra modification. Several of the operations we had to perform were repetitive and could have been automated, but the system was sluggish and incompatible with automation, as the system attributes were inconsistent at times, it was difficult to establish object repositories at times since there was nothing unique, and so on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface is simple to set up, making it an ideal platform for activity planning. I have worked on practically all of the IBP modules, but Reaction and Supply Planning is one of my favorite aspects. SAP IBP is as simple to use as Microsoft Excel (the most powerful tool for planners). Furthermore, because it is a cloud-based platform, all information is shared across your team and can be instantly evaluated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The limitation in terms of possible customisation hinders IBP EPM formatting, as Excel templates do not give the necessary flexibility and resilience. Like Excel, it frequently breaks and fails to save, resulting in the loss of all your work; the algorithm takes a long time to execute, so you must be patient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It serves as the one source of truth and is also better at tracking changes; the simplicity of the program, along with its power, is one of its finest features. Utilizing it in real time across departments and then allowing numerous warehouses and offices to access the data in real time saves a significant amount of time. I enjoy the option to add additional key figures and adjust logic if the IT and project management teams accept. In collaboration with the IT team, we have already built the automatic calculation methodology for the key figure. Another excellent alternative is to create your own templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its output integration with Excel might be cumbersome at times. I wish it was more "drag and drop" than having to enter each individual line. The platform should not just be confined to corporate applications, but also be adaptable to emerging AI technologies, and an integration architecture for the same would be beneficial. I've seen numerous times when working in SAP IBP that it would crash; I believe this is because it utilizes a lot of operating RAM. It slows down the procedure. The planning team is happy with it, but the sales team has a lot of questions regarding the names. Since the designation of each Important Figure is not always clear to novice personnel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an excellent tool for demand and supply planning, with customized Excel planning views, rapid data connection via CPI-DS, and the ability to handle massive volumes of data. Users do not have to worry about storage or system maintenance because it is hosted on the cloud. I appreciate the best fit statistical forecasting capabilities, automatic cleaning, interface capabilities with other SAP systems, and the fact that we have the whole E2E planning process in one application. We are constantly up to date because it is cloud-based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because there aren't many good resources for learning IBP on the internet, it's tough for new users to get started. Some of the functionality is still in its early stages. We'd want to employ controller-based scheduling, but there are currently performance difficulties. I dislike the intelligent visibility opportunity to deliver real-time data and analytics as well as predictive analytics, as well as its ease of use in comparison to other products like as BO or Power BI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP IBP is one of the critical application when it comes to the business planning. There are multiple best part and i am covering few major one here.

- Realtime supply planning

- Depand profitability with what-if cases

- End-to-end visibility of supply chain process through multiple dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was using APO earlier although SAP IBP is better i am missing some of the comforts like

- Running jobs through Excels views

- Prebuilt KPIs for performance management

- Predictive analytics also need improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could-based supply chain planning tool. it helps businesses to predict and avoid any supply disruption. Using IBP tool manufacturing team can give more feasible delivery dates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a Predefined set of KPIs to measure supply chain performance could be added advantage.

More user training is required to use the IBP tool.

Integration with other devices is not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.