SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP

The tool to access the SAP Best Practices content up from SAP IBP 2305 is SAP Signavio Process Navigator. SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP will be updated and enhanced every quarter and gives you everything you need to run Planning processes in the following applications:

• SAP IBP for sales and operations
• SAP IBP for response and supply
• SAP IBP for demand
• SAP IBP for inventory
• SAP IBP for demand-driven replenishment
• SAP Supply Chain Control Tower

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For more information, please consult https://me.sap.com/processnavigator/SolS/EARL_SolS-034 (direct link to SAP Best Practices for SAP Integrated Business Planning) or https://me.sap.com/processnavigator (general link).

All scope items are based on a comprehensive data model, which enables you to execute an integrated, end-to-end business process. SAP Best Practices comprises Planning View templates for interactive simulations and what-if analyses, predefined dashboards for embedded analytics, alert definitions for exception-based Planning, integration for context-aware social collaboration, and sample data to showcase the end-to-end process.

• Reduce Sales and Operations Planning costs
• Improve demand forecast accuracy and react more quickly to changes in demand
• Increase sales forecast accuracy
• Reduce inventory carrying costs and increase inventory turnover/reduce days in inventory
• Improve on-time delivery performance
• Increase revenue and reduce revenue loss due to stock-outs
• Increase user productivity by using Microsoft Excel for interactive Planning and by integrating social collaboration

• Detailed configuration documentation for setting up predefined SAP Best Practices processes
• Predefined Planning Views in Microsoft Excel
• Predefined charts and dashboards to analyze trends and exceptions
• Predefined process management to track progress and integration into social collaboration
• Based on integrated Planning areas, allowing you to operate and end-to-end process across all SAP IBP applications

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You can use the unified Planning area (SAPIBP1) to jump-start the implementation in case your business process requires integration across different SAP IBP applications. The unified Planning area is a comprehensive sample Planning area that supports an integrated Planning process covering all of the applications listed above. Just like any other sample Planning area, this Planning area delivers an out-of-the-box integration scenario, which you can customize to fit your unique requirements.

For the integrated Planning process based on the unified Planning area, the SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP provides sample data, Planning View templates, predefined dashboards, configuration guides, test scripts and more. Customer test tenants and SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, starter edition instances include an activated copy of the unified Planning area with sample content.

The SAP Supply Chain Control Tower provides visibility over the end-to-end Planning process, offers alerting capability for exception-based Planning and enables effective issue resolution with the collaborative case management functionality.

The following table lists the periodicities and the aggregation levels per Process:

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These periodic and aggregation levels represent general guidelines and they can be adjusted for specific requirements as needed.

For additional content related to the unified Planning area, see https://me.sap.com/processnavigator/SolS/EARL_SolS-034.

For general information about Planning areas, see the model configuration guide on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/ibp. Choose your release and then choose Model Configuration Guide.

The SAP IBP web client provides access to sample SAP Planning areas, which are shipped with SAP IBP. You can use sample Planning areas as a basis for creating your own Planning areas. You can copy one of the Planning areas and extend it as necessary to meet your particular business needs. You can add your own Master Data types, key figures, calculations, and attributes.