SAP IBP

IBP S&OP

  • - Alert management in Excel​
  • - Analytics and Dashboards​
  • - Process tracker​
  • - Planning changes and notes​
  • - Valuation of the plan​
  • - ABC Segmentation​
  • - Scenario management​
  • - What If simulation​

Demand Planning on S&OP

  • - Visual History Cleansing​
  • - Promotion removal from history
  • - Base Statistical Models​
  • - Assignment of model to segment​
  • - Lifecycle Management​
  • - Trend & Seasonality Inputs​
  • - Sales & Marketing Inputs​

Inventory Planning​ on S&OP

  • - Self defined rules to determine optimal stock levels​
  • - Management of Qty or Day’s coverage
  • - Working on Single Stage inventory​
  • - Planning by exception to understand where we have potential stock issues​

Supply Planning on S&OP​

  • - Multilevel Unconstrained Heuristic for distribution and production​

With IBP Demand(extra module)

  • - Advanced Segmentation​
  • - Automatic history cleansing​
  • - Automatic outliers corrections​
  • - Advanced statistical forecasting​
  • - Automatic Model Assignment​
  • - Machine Learning
  • - Lifecycle management​

With IBP Inventory(extra module)

  • - Single or multilevel inventory optimization​
  • - Consideration of Demand & Supply variability​
  • - Consideration of Service levels​
  • - Simulation of the inventory plan​

With IBP Supply(extra module)

  • - Multilevel constrained optimizer for distribution and production​
  • - Finite capacity planning with Finite Heuristic​
  • - Supply Propagation (Deployment to warehouses)​
  • - Response for Synchronized Planning

SAP IBP

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At IBP Ready, we take a pragmatic, results-driven approach to SAP IBP implementation, optimization, and rescue missions. Unlike traditional consulting firms that take over a year to deliver results, we implement SAP IBP in months, ensuring businesses gain real, measurable impact fast. Our 80/20 approach prioritizes rapid learning and iteration, closing gaps based on existing processes, speed over perfection.

  • 80% Fast Learning & Iteration – Implement IBP quickly, engage your team, and refine through real-world use.
  • 20% High-Impact Decisions – Once the system is in place, focus on the critical decisions that drive real business value.
  • Speed Over Perfection – Rather than designing a perfect system on paper, we believe in starting quickly, adapting, and optimizing based on real user experience.

With this approach, we ensure maximum value in minimal time, avoiding costly delays and unnecessary complexity.

Preparation for Implementation

Many companies spend too much time overanalyzing before implementation, leading to delays, bloated designs, and inefficiencies. Instead of getting stuck in endless planning loops, we focus on the essentials to ensure the fastest and smoothest SAP IBP implementation possible.

Our preparation phase focuses on three key areas:

  • Process Design – We focus on defining the 80% of processes that bring the most value, rather than over-engineering for every possible scenario. By mapping existing processes and identifying gaps early, we ensure a pragmatic, business-first approach that accelerates implementation and avoids unnecessary complexity.
  • Data Readiness – We prioritize cleaning up the key master data necessary for IBP, rather than attempting to fix everything at once.
  • Business mapping and design – Instead of tackling every possible scenario, we ensure key stakeholders co-create processes from the start. This approach makes change management easier, as decisions are made together. Some aspects will fit into the core 80%, others into the 20%, and some will be phased out to avoid unnecessary complexity.
  • Technology & Integration Strategy – We ensure SAP IBP is seamlessly connected to SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, and any relevant external data sources for smooth, accurate planning and execution.

By streamlining the preparation phase, we set the stage for a faster, more effective implementation while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

Implementation

We test processes in real business scenarios from day one, ensuring they meet operational needs rather than just theoretical designs. By leveraging best practices and templates developed through years of IBP implementations, we accelerate the setup process while maintaining high-quality configuration tailored to your business. Our implementation methodology includes:

  • Fast Execution, Continuous Learning – We go live quickly, allowing users to engage with the system early on, providing valuable feedback that helps refine and optimize processes and systems along the way.
  • Agile Rollout & Business Validation – Instead of debating hypothetical setups, we test and improve SAP IBP configurations in real business scenarios, ensuring alignment with actual operational needs.
  • Pre-Built Best Practices – We test processes in real business scenarios from day one, ensuring they fit operational needs, not just theory. By focusing on business requirements instead of rigid templates, we accelerate setup while delivering a high quality, tailored configuration.

This agile, results-first approach means businesses see tangible benefits faster, reducing time-to-value and ensuring continuous refinement rather than rigid, outdated implementations.

Hand-Holding & Optimization

Once SAP IBP is live, the focus shifts to ensuring your team can manage it independently, minimizing reliance on external consultants. Our post-go-live support is designed to be high-impact but short-term, ensuring your business takes full ownership of the system.

Our optimization and support services include:

  • Hypercare & Continuous Support – We provide on-the-ground assistance as users begin working with SAP IBP, helping them navigate challenges and optimize their workflows.
  • Targeted Adjustments & Refinements – We monitor system performance and identify areas where further fine-tuning is needed, such as forecast accuracy, supply planning constraints, and inventory management.
  • Ownership Transfer – Instead of fostering long-term consultant dependency, we train your internal team to operate and refine SAP IBP independently, ensuring long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency.

With this hands-on yet results-driven approach, we make sure IBP adoption is not just successful but also fully integrated into daily business operations.

Rescue & Design Review

Not all SAP IBP implementations go as planned. Businesses often end up with overcomplicated systems, misaligned processes, or poor real-world usability. Whether it’s due to design flaws, slow rollouts, or ineffective execution, we help get IBP back on track, without unnecessary disruptions.

Our SAP IBP rescue services focus on fixing what matters most, not starting from scratch.

  • Quick Health Check – We rapidly assess your IBP setup to identify what’s working and what’s not. Instead of assuming everything is broken, we determine whether to fix, adjust, or scrap elements based on business impact.
  • Simplification & Optimization – Many implementations fail due to unnecessary complexity. We streamline processes, remove inefficiencies, and ensure IBP is aligned with business needs, not just technical setups.
  • Transition & Ownership – We shift the focus to empowering your team to manage IBP independently, reducing reliance on external consultants. Post-go-live support is designed to be high impact but short term, ensuring a smooth handover to your internal team.

Our approach is about practical fixes, not endless consulting cycles. We help businesses regain control of IBP and make it work for them.

Network Visibility Extension

Not all SAP IBP setups provide the network visibility planners need. Complex supply chains often span multiple production levels, BOM stages, and distribution points, but standard IBP views rarely show how everything connects. This makes it difficult to detect bottlenecks, understand dependencies, or react to disruptions.

 

  • We implement Supply Chain Explorer, a network visibility extension embedded directly within SAP IBP, to solve this gap, without changing your existing planning structures.
  • Multi-Tier Network Mapping – We provide a structured view of your full supply chain, from raw materials to finished goods. Every planning level is visualized clearly, enabling faster understanding and alignment across teams.
  • Bottleneck Detection & Impact Awareness – Our tool helps identify potential issues before they escalate, such as component shortages or overloaded work centers, and shows exactly which downstream elements are affected.
  • Where-Used & Dependency Analysis – Instantly see where each component or semi-finished product is used across the network. This makes it easier to assess the true impact of disruptions or changes in supply.
  • Fully Embedded in SAP IBP – Supply Chain Explorer runs on your existing IBP master data. There’s no external system, no duplicate data entry, and no additional integration, setup is fast and seamless.

This extension gives your planning team the clarity they need to manage complex networks, prioritize actions, and make faster, better-informed decisions, all within SAP IBP.

Supply Chain Explorer for SAP IBP, embedded directly
Supply Chain Explorer - Planner Workspace View

Directly integrated within SAP IBP in just 7 days

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