Supply Planning with Allocation Creation run considers forecast, fixed demands, and receipts (and safety stock and safety days of supply) as Demand Elements. Supply Elements created are Planned orders, Stock Transfer Requisitions, Purchase Requisitions. Allocations are not considered as a constraint and Sales orders are also not considered.
The Supply Planning with Order Confirmation Run, in response and supply planning, re-plans the supply with the most recent prioritized demand and the product allocation. This planning run also performs the order confirmation. For any change in the demand and supply situation, the confirmation planning run recreates the plan and confirms the orders. Therefore, the output of this complete cycle is the confirmed orders and the most preferred supply plan per the prioritization rule and the organization’s ability to supply.
Deployment planning is performed as short-term supply planning to supply the available material against open orders. This planning methodology matches demand elements with the existing supply. Deployment is normally performed only in the short term for the actual product movement horizon, typically from a couple of days to a week.
Functional capabilities of SAP IBP for response and supply include:
- Specific SAP Fiori Apps provide excellent data visibility into the planning situation. This includes Gating Factors, Competing Demands, Analyze Supply Usage, Pegging, and so on.
- Prioritization Logic is described in subsequent sections but uses a flexible \ reusable rules framework and is the brains of the algorithm.
- Simulations: Ability to create and copy planning version, version-specific MD. Specific Sales Order simulation capability exists just for Order Based Planning.
- Constraints: Listed above, some are Master Data, others Time-Series key figures and can be used to determine a feasible plan.
The apps used to view the Order Based Planning Data are shown below.
Figures show an overview of where the different algorithms fall into which planning horizon, and whether they are time-bucketed or order-based.
For items in gray, refer to the SAP IBP Roadmap.
Time-Series based planning uses Cloud Platform Integration – Data Services (Ci-DS) as its technique. Its more of a data mapping setup with provided templates (not all) for the data elements and is periodic.
SAP Cloud Integration (CI) is used to integrate data between S4 SAP HANA Cloud and SAP IBP
Order-based planning uses Real-Time Integration (RTI) for both Master and Transactional data integration.
