
New in 2502:
Technical upgrade to product version 2502 of the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution
- We've enhanced the SAPIBP1 sample planning area as follows:
- Adjusted the calculation in key figures PLEADTIMEDELTAUL and TLEADTIMEDELTAUL
- Added new diagnostic key figures to the Forecast Error Profiles - Inventory app. Recency is a method that assigns higher statistical weighting to recent periods, allowing businesses to react to changes in the forecast error more quickly.
- We've enhanced the solution process for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) with a preconfigured Planner Workspace for the maintenance and operations planner. We've also added a preconfigured analytics story called IBP Best Practices - M&OP - Maintenance & Operations Planning. These enhancements allow you to create effective planning and analytics views for end-to-end MRO planning scenarios much more quickly. Use our workbooks and stories that are available for key process steps-demand and segmentation review, inventory review, supply and capacity review, and finance review. They offer insights from high-level overviews to part location-level details for maintenance planning.
- We've added an example to solution process IBP for demand - new product introduction that illustrates how to show active product assignments in the SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel. Planners do no longer have to switch to the Manage Product Lifecycle app, but can directly check the product assignment.
- The solution processes for Demand Driven Replenishment have been retired.





The purpose of integrated maintenance, repair, and operations planning is to provide full transparency for mid-term and long-term MRO parts and resource requirements by leveraging statistical forecasting methods, inventory and supply planning algorithms. In a first step, the inventory planner needs to check the updated MRO parts usage history at the beginning of each planning cycle. During this task, the planner also run the demand classification job. The maintenance planner then creates MRO part and resource consumption corrective maintenance forecasts for a period of 12 months for mid-term forecasting. After that, the inventory planner carries out an MRO part segmentation analysis in which parts are segmented based on their costs and usage volumes as well as their lead time risk. Once the service levels are defined, the inventory planner creates an inventory plan and determines the new safety stock, reorder point or target inventory position for MRO parts being planned. After the inventory parameters are defined, the maintenance planner can create a supply plan for MRO parts and labor resources for the mid- to long-term horizon. Upon completion of the supply plan, the financial calculations are populated in the planning area which can be reviewed by a finance manager. Finally, the finance manager can approve the expected maintenance expenditures and complete the cycle of the integrated business plan for maintenance, repair, and operations.
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