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<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">SAP Best Practices represent the adoption of proven strategies and solutions, helping businesses to save time, mitigate risks, and align projects with industry standards.</p><p tabindex="0">To facilitate the adoption of these best practices, SAP provides a suite of preconfigured, standardized content. This content serves as an accelerator, enabling organizations to begin leveraging best practices even before the complete configuration and system integration are finalized.</p></div>

What are SAP Best Practices?

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">You can access SAP Best Practices through the SAP Signavio Process Navigator. The SAP Signavio Process Navigator is a cloud-based service integrated into SAP for Me.</p><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody">An S-user ID is required to access SAP for Me.</div></div><p tabindex="0">It offers free access to SAP’s Best Practices process portfolio. This service provides prebuilt assets through a business and solution-oriented data model and design, delivering a process-centric approach to navigating and leveraging SAP's best practices.</p><dl><dt>The prebuilt assets include:</dt><dd>- Configuration guides</dd><dd>- Master data guides</dd><dd>- Test scripts</dd><dd>- Process flow diagrams</dd><dd>- Sample data</dd></dl><p tabindex="0">The benefits of using the prebuilt assets are:</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Utilizing the available standard end-to-end scenarios as a baseline.</li><li tabindex="0">Helping to identify the process gaps during the initial phases of the project.</li><li tabindex="0">Enabling users to learn about the solution and navigate the system.</li><li tabindex="0">Facilitating the creation of Proof-of-Concepts and system pilots.</li><li tabindex="0">Allowing partners to utilize the content alongside customers during implementation.</li></ul><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>SAP Activate and SAP Best Practices</h3></div><p tabindex="0">The perfect combination to run and accelerate a project implementation are ready-to-run business processes (SAP Best Practices) pre-delivered through a structured deployment methodology (SAP Activate).</p><img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="Combination of the SAP Activate Methodology Phases with the SAP Best Practices content available in the SAP Signavio Process Navigator." alt="Combination of the SAP Activate Methodology Phases with the SAP Best Practices content available in the SAP Signavio Process Navigator." src="/service/media/CO_EWM100_01_en-US_media/CO_EWM100_01_en-US_images/U2L3_BestPract.png" tabindex="0"><div class="imageCaption"></div></div></div></div>

How to Access SAP Best Practices?

<div id="content"><ol><li tabindex="0">Log on to SAP for Me.</li><li tabindex="0">Choose "Services &amp; Support".</li><li tabindex="0">Within the category of ALM, choose "<a target="_blank" href="https://me.sap.com/processnavigator">SAP Signavio Process Navigator</a>".</li><li tabindex="0">Choose "Solution Scenarios", and in the search engine, search for "Integrated Business Planning".</li></ol><p tabindex="0">The direct access to the SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP is available <a target="_blank" href="https://me.sap.com/processnavigator/SolS/EARL_SolS-034">here</a>.</p><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody">Make sure to select the latest version available.</div></div><div class="note hint"><div class="noteTitle hintTitle"><span class="noteIcon hintIcon"><img title="Hint" src="/icons/hint.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Hint</span></div><div class="noteBody">An option to download all the assets is available in the upper-right corner.<img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="Overview information of the SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP in the SAP Signavio Process Navigator tool." alt="Overview information of the SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP in the SAP Signavio Process Navigator tool." src="/service/media/CO_IBP100_01_en-US_media/CO_IBP100_01_en-US_images/U2_L3_C3_Slide7.png" tabindex="0"><div class="imageCaption"></div></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>Additional Information</h3></div><p tabindex="0">Get an overview of the SAP Best Practices specifically for the SAP IBP solution in this 10-min video:</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="Collection of assets available in the Best Practices that serves as starting point for implementing SAP IBP business processes." class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_g3lwun3g"></div></div><p tabindex="0">You can also get and overview of the SAP IBP Best Practices fundamentals in the SAP Community <a target="_blank" href="https://community.sap.com/t5/supply-chain-management-blogs-by-sap/sap-best-practices-for-sap-integrated-business-planning-fundamentals/ba-p/13761220">blog</a>.</p></div></div></div>

How to Get Started with SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">A thorough understanding and effective use of SAP Best Practices are critical for accelerating SAP project implementations. By leveraging prebuilt assets such as configuration guides, master data guides, test scripts, process flow diagrams, and sample data, organizations can quickly initiate projects, identify process gaps, and navigate through the system more efficiently.</p><p tabindex="0">The integration of SAP Activate with SAP Best Practices further boosts project efficiency, providing a structured and streamlined approach to achieving implementation success.</p></div>

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Cloud Onboarding for SAP IBP

Unit 2 - Lesson 3 Best Practices.mp4

Best Practices is a collection of assets that serves as a starting point for implementing IBP business processes. With the best practices, you can quickly configure and run various IBP processes, such as sales and operations, planning, response and supply planning, demand, planning, demand, sensing, inventory, optimization, and demand treatment treatment. There are several key benefits. of using SAP practices. Firstly, it provides structured content, methodologies, and tools that can accelerate the implementation process and reduce then also project risks. Secondly, the comprehensive sample planning areas support planning at different time and data granularity, and it would reduce, of course, then the effort, which is required for modeling. Additionally, the APS practices offers pre-configured and validated application content, including planning views in Microsoft Excel, planner workspaces, analytic stories, alerts, and sample data. This allows you to start running integrated business processes right from the video. Furthermore, extensive documentation and solution configuration and process execution is available, which helps you to run tests, to build demos, and also to support education. And finally, you have the flexibility to extend the configuration and processes to meet your or your customer's needs. What can best practices do for you? So we listed here several use cases, starting from study where you can educate yourself from training. So to use also our materials and the processes to train project members, key users and end users. You can use it for demonstration purposes. You can use it as a starting point for a proof of concept or a pilot project. And finally, you can also use it for your implementation project. So we need to use also the process description as a blueprint for your implementation. Let's now take a closer look at the solution processes, which we cover us in SAP best practices. So we start here with the sales and operations processes to align the resources for the strategic goals. That includes demand and supply review and, for example, also management. Business review. Then we have the area of demand. So here we are using machine learning algorithms, advanced demand sensing, and additional predictive analysis tools to really improve the accuracy of the forecast. Demand-driven replenishment. The processes support the demand -driven material requirement planning, methodology. So that means we are using here concepts like material flow, decoupling points and inventory buffers. The area of response and supply, we see here the tactical supply planning to generate material and capacity constraint operational supply plan, this covers processes like supply and allocation planning, deployment, planning, transportation, load, build, and so on. In inventory, we are using the multi -ecalong optimization means we really optimize the inventory in the complete supply chain. And with that, we can really, yeah, improve the service level with much less investment in buffer stock. And we have here as a last point, maintenance repair and operations or MRO. Here we provide processes for the asset-intensive industries to offer transparency for mid to long-term MRO parts and resources. In addition to these processes or in conjunction with these processes, SAP best practices provides a wide range of assets to support your implementation. Some of the assets you will see also in the presentations of my colleagues, but just here you get an overview. We have assets that are delivered via the process navigator. That's our tool to access or to allow access to all the best practice content. And we have topics of assets that are delivered already. already as part of the solution. For example, here, the sample planning areas, the forecast model, the segmentation profiles, the planner work spaces, and so on. Let me jump to another exciting topic. So artificial intelligence, machine learning, everybody is talking about, right? And it really has changed the way how we approach data analysis and decision making. And also in the context of IBP, embedded machine learning capabilities play a crucial role in driving, planning, accuracy, and automation. Let's take here the look at some of the use cases where machine learning can really make significant impact. The firstly, automated cluster and threshold proposal in segmentation using K-means. This allows for efficient grouping of data points based on similarities and helping in the identification of target segments for marketing or sales strategies. Next, we have, of course, all the forecast algorithms, the great forecast algorithms like gradient boosting or Arimax to predict then future demand or sales. And another big topic is also a master data anomaly detection. So without good master data, also I think it's not possible to have a good planning result. So it's important to keep the master data in a good shape and these machine learning algorithms can help to identify errors in master data. then for demand sensing we have here the extreme gradient boosting that is an implementation of gradient boosted decision trees for speed and performance and finally we have and finally we have the possibility to detect level shifts or trends in the sales quantity and to use then also this information in forecasting, we are using that, for example, in the IBP for demand time series analysis. Now let's talk about SAP Analytics Cloud. So we have here several areas for analytics cloud. One is about content for the digital boardroom. Here we have content that provides the key performance indicators for the SNOP process and also show then how to integrate this data to SCC Analytics Cloud. Then by combining SAP forecast data with SAP financial data, then business can really enhance their sales and profitability planning. And this integration improves accuracy in sales and operations planning and enables better decision -making and resource allocation. Furthermore, we can transfer forecast data to SAP Analytics Cloud for commercial planning. By incorporating sales and marketing spend data, business can improve the accuracy of their forecasts, leading to better resource allocation and planning. Another asset, which I think is also very important, as sample data, that is sample data allows you to run the processes even without having an up-to-date integration to Svahana. We keep the network here very simple because that makes it also easier for you to understand, for example, the mechanics of algorithms. And you can use these CSV files like, yeah, we provide them or you can update them, adopt them, for example, for demo purposes with your own data. User interface, we provide here several options. We have Excel planning views for those of you who still like to work with Excel. But in the meantime, we also have quite some pre-configured planner work spaces, which can be used for, for example, in the demand planning process. And we have the analytic stories, and I think I'll better will talk about that in a minute. Here is two links. So you have two options how to access the best practice content. One is via the help portal, so help.help.com slash ibp. And if you choose the implement tab, you find here the best practices and the link to the process navigator. Or you can also, of course, directly jump with the link below to the process navigator. and select your content.