SAP IBP for inventory provides three functionalities to simulate possible future situations:
- Versions: represent different amount of key, that is, it implies changes on the model
- Scenarios: represent different possible results within the transactional data, that is, it implies changes on saved data keeping the original result.
- Simulations: represent on-the-fly calculations that can become an scenario
- Demand
- Demand Forecast
- Demand Forecast Error Coefficient of Variation
- Target Service Level
- Customer Frozen Window
- Transportation
- Sourcing Quota
- Lead Time
- Lead Time Error
- Minimum Lot Size
- Incremental Lot Size
- Frozen Window
- Lot Size Periods of Coverage
- Manufacturing, Co-packing, Processing, Vendor
- Output Coefficient
- Sourcing Quota
- Lead Time
- Lead Time Error
- Minimum Lot Size
- Incremental Lot Size
- Frozen Window
- Lot Size Periods of Coverage
- Inventory Policy
- Periods Between Replenishment
- Minimum Internal Service Level
- Maximum Internal Service Level
- Inventory Holding Cost Rate
- Minimum Stock Requirement
- Maximum On Hand Inventory
- Maximum Inventory Violation Cost Rate