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Is your Outlier Correction outstanding?
  • Christian Schöne|
  • January 17 2020|
  • 8 comments |
  • Category : IBP Demand

Introduction Outlier correction is commonly perceived as a necessary but tiresome, recurring task for a demand planner. The advantages of performing the outlier correction as a pre-processing step in the Forecasting process are nevertheless evident: You would get more clarification on which portion of your demand history is due to special marketing activities (promotions, price changes, etc.) of your company or your competitors. You won’t need to define your forecasting […]

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Working with Aggregated Constraints
  • Christian Schöne|
  • June 04 2020|
  • 0 comments |
  • Category : IBP Supply

Aggregated constraints are a useful feature in SAP IBP when you would like to control the supply and capacity planning not on a detail level but on an aggregated level. As an example: you have four production lines in your company which can manufacture the same output product but with different throughput rates. Your main restriction is the number of skilled employees available per day or shift to operate the […]

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Supply Heuristic Parameters
  • Christian Schöne|
  • March 09 2020|
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  • Category : IBP Supply

Introduction This  blog is intended to describe the parameters of the IBP Supply Heuristic with focus on the heuristic type “Infinite without shortages”. Allowed Quota Deviation Here you can relax the heuristic a little bit with the intention to tolerate any irregular quota definitions in the Location Source. The tolerance interval is nevertheless restricted by SAP to a value between 0 and 0.1, meaning it allows a sum of quotas […]

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SAP IBP Alerts with Machine Learning
  • Christian Schöne|
  • February 17 2020|
  • 2 comments |
  • Category : Uncategorized

Introduction Planning processes in SAP IBP using Machine Learning (ML) algorithms such as are included in the SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library (PAL) do exist up to current IBP release yet to a manageable extent. The obvious spots in IBP where Machine learning plays a role are Clustering of Alerts with ML clustering algorithms Forecasting Model Gradient Boosting of Decision Trees Before we go into the details of above mentioned […]

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Modelling Demand Bill of Materials in SAP IBP
  • Christian Schöne|
  • November 21 2019|
  • 5 comments |
  • Category : IBP Demand

Introduction In various business scenarios – especially in the Make-to-Order (MTO) process environment – there is the requirement to model demand planning quantities for the critical parts in the lower levels of the bills of material (e.g. semi-finished goods, purchased components). In SAP’s preceding supply chain planning tool SAP APO there are several commonly known options to match this specific business requirement, e.g.: Generating so-called Demand Planning Bill of Materials […]

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Time-Series Based Solvers in SAP IBP (I): an analysis
  • Pedro Averwald|
  • January 10 2019|
  • 0 comments |
  • Category : IBP Supply

Introduction In the typical Sales & Operations planning process (S&OP), the Sales, Finance and Operations Departments first agree on a common Forecast for the different products (or products families) and Customers (or regions). This forecast is known as (unconstrained) Consensus Forecast). The subsequent step consists in executing the Supply Planning. In this step, the supply planner creates an high level supply plan and determines – if possible – the feasibility […]

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New Product Introduction Made Easy
  • Christian Schöne|
  • January 09 2019|
  • 3 comments |
  • Category : IBP Demand

During SAP APO times the maintenance of Product Lifecycles, Phase-in or Phase-out profiles including Like modelling has been very cumbersome. In most customer projects we experienced that the available functionality in APO did by far not match with the business requirements, so customer developments had been very likely. The App in SAP IBP for Product Lifecycle Management means a big step forward in terms of comprehensiveness and usability. This article […]

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