Modelling Demand Bill of Materials in SAP IBP

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

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

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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