SAP IBP Training is one of the niche skills one can acquire especially for consultants who are planning to have a carrier built around the Supply Chain. SAP APO’s predecessor to SAP IBP is one of the very successful and robust supply chain tools that gained a lot of client acceptance over the last 20 years. Though SAP APO remains the most sought-after supply chain model tool; with the changing requirements like enhanced analytics, real-time what-if scenarios, enhanced user experience, speed of processing, etc. APO architecture needs to change. To cater to this real-time supply chain planning and analytics business needs SAP has introduced SAP IBP. SAP Plans to retire SAP APO in the next 5 years. Most of the SAP APO functionality is inherited in SAP IBP with some changes to how things are configured. Click here for the Topics covered in the Video Tutorials.
Why SAP IBP is crucial for Organization – move from APO to IBP
To be competitive and growing, more today, organizations need processes to synchronize the entire planning chain with Fiance being at the helm. An example increase in tax prices for one of the manufacturing sites should suggest better plants where the same goods can be manufactures to stay effective. An organization like Amazon, Walmart is challenging traditional supply chain lead times. Today Amazon can deliver products with 2 hours for purchase and Walmart has options to suggest the nearest store customer should place an order for faster delivery. To compete with these evolving supply chain dynamics supply chain tools need to be extremely fast with data processing, have real-time analytics, real-time what-if scenarios, Scalable, collaborative and great user interface for quick and better decision making. SAP IBP is designed on the same lines.
The Supply chain tool should be able to generate Sales plans, Supply plan, Manufacturing plans, Distribution & Inventory plan. SAP IBP tool and know-how help organizations define profit-driven models and lay processes to aid decision-making processes like increase or decrease staffing, buying or purchasing options, scaling requirements, capacity, and shift changes, etc, and all these ways ahead in future before certain things start becoming the bottleneck. IBP allows the organization to move from the traditional supply chain model mostly focused on just demand & supply planning to cost-based and profit-based planning. Cost-driven planning allows the organization to have a Unified KPI that is the cost optimization and profit targets. All the functionalities of SAP IBP are grouped under a process called Sales & Operations planning. The S & OP of IBP is are divided into four subgroups (Demand | Inventory | Supply | Response)
Is SAP IBP Training right for you ?
Learning & keeping on-self updated with the latest skill sets is an integral part of the Information Technology and consulting world. Time is limited but learning options are unlimited deciding what might best work for oneself helps greatly in achieving his/her carrier aspirations. SAP IBP can be learned by someone freshly out of college to someone with lots of experience from the supply chain domain. Learning SAP IBP not only helps understand the technical aspect of the IBP tool but also acquires the know-how about best practices and high-end technological advancements made in the field of Supply Chain and analytics. Some of the prime users who can consider learning SAP IBP are grouped as below:-
- APO Consultants – SAP APO is a kind of predecessor to SAP IBP. SAP APO is kind of split into two parts. DP/SNP move to SAP IBP and PPDS/GATP will be part of S/4 HANA ECC box. Organizations are slowly migrating and remodeling their business to make IBP part of the supply chain. It’s expected Gradually the demand for IBP consultants will increase and only APO skillset consultants will come down as SAP plans to phase out SAP APO in the next 5 years. Thus for APO consultants to be still needed upgrading with SAP IBP skills becomes very important.
- SAP PP Consultants – SAP APO was a kind of advancement to SAP PP functionality. with SAP IBP replacing SAP APO, learning SAP IBP for SAP PP (Production Planning) consultants will be a good add-on.
- Supply Chain consultants – SAP Tools are developed after years of brainstorming and laying the best practices in the form of business rules and processes. IBP processes are very close to real-world business. Learning IBP supply chain consultants can vividly see how the supply chain concepts are implemented in real-time. It will help one to quickly see their theoretical knowledge turned into a tangible business process.
- SAP Excel and Microsoft background – With IBP the front end for business users is excel. Strong excel skills like advanced formatting, macros, and excel programming will be an advantage.
- Analytics – SAP IBP uses tools like CPI-DS (Cloud Platform Integration) to extract data from SAP and Non -SAP systems. Further, it has strong inbuilt analytics and reporting capability. Analytics consultants can consider IBP as a carrier booster as well.
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SAP IBP Training course approach
In SAP nothing is easy or difficult; everything is about a learning curve; concepts appearing difficult become simple over time. Its about spending time and having patience. In SAP new is difficult but once once hands-on it seems so lucid. Our training sessions can be handled by some one who is introduced to SAP for the first time to experts. The concepts will be introduced one after another. Things might not make the complete since initially but slowly as they unfold it becomes clearer. For more information on SAP IBP training or demo videos please reach us at contactus@sapibptraining.com