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SAP Integrated Business Planning 2505 is now generally available, and it's packed with powerful enhancements that will help you streamline operations, optimize inventory, and gain deeper insights through advanced analytics. Here are a few examples of what you can look forward to:
AI-Assisted Formula Generation: Save time and reduce errors with intelligent formula suggestions, allowing you to focus on strategic planning.
Detailed Forecast Insights: Gain real-time, actionable insights directly within your planning user interface, empowering you to make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Improved Alert Management: Stay proactive with enhanced alert features, ensuring you never miss critical updates and always stay ahead of potential issues.
Discover how these innovations can transform your planning efficiency and drive better business outcomes:
Demand
Direct Access to Forecast Insights in Planning UIs
Empower planners with instant access to detailed forecast information, boosting productivity and agility. This innovation eliminates time-consuming searches and IT dependence, offering immediate insights into forecast models, algorithms, and best-fit results. Planners can make swift, informed decisions with visibility into parameter values, forecast errors, outlier correction, and product lifecycle logic. Seamlessly integrated into the SAP IBP add-in for Microsoft Excel and Planners Workspaces, this feature enhances usability and efficiency with actionable, readily available insights.
Planning UIs
AI-Assisted Generation of SAP IBP Formulas
In the SAP Integrated Business Planning, add-in for Microsoft Excel, planners can now effortlessly generate SAP IBP formulas with the help of AI-assisted planning.
SAP IBP formulas enable planners to incorporate custom calculations into their planning views using SAP IBP data. By leveraging the new Planning Assistance, users can now describe the desired formulas in natural language, and the system will automatically generate the corresponding SAP IBP formulas. This AI feature eliminates the need to understand the technical intricacies, such as functions and parameters, required for setting up these formulas, streamlining the planning process significantly.
This feature is currently only available for early adopters. If you want to use it, contact SAP and request the activation using the SCM-IBP-XLS-UI component.
Experience Improved Efficiency and Enhanced Control with Alert Grouping in Planner Workspaces
SAP IBP 2505 introduces an enhanced alert grouping feature, empowering planners to manage plan exceptions more effectively and navigate to relevant data effortlessly:
Hierarchical Tree Structure: View alerts in an intuitive, three-level hierarchy based on selected grouping attributes, remaining attributes, and time periods, making it easier to pinpoint issues.
Interactive Navigation: Drill down into each level for context-specific, filtered information, enabling swift and targeted resolution.
Flexible Alert Snoozing: Snooze alerts at any grouping level for greater control and flexibility in handling exceptions on your terms.
Analytics Stories
Analytics Stories with Optimized Story Experience
Empower users to create compelling data analysis visualizations within SAP Integrated Business Planning: Analytics Stories now harnesses the power of the Optimized Story Experience, delivering improvements to the user interface, enhanced navigation, and additional features.
The usability enhancements focus on both story design and data analysis. With an improved story design, users can effortlessly build and modify stories, gaining a deeper understanding of the intricate relationships between filters and widgets. The enhanced data analysis allows for intuitive selection based on dependencies across dimensions.
Features include cascading dimension filters, improved data selection (for example, selection with wildcards and dynamic selections), new responsive views based on screen size, and integration with Microsoft PowerPoint. A filter panel for quick visualization of relationships between selections and data is also available.
Foundation
Automated Correction of Order and Stock Inconsistencies in RTI Reconciliation
Enhance decision-making with increased data accuracy through a new automation for resolving order and stock discrepancies in RTI reconciliation. By minimizing manual intervention, this feature ensures seamless alignment between execution and planning systems, maintaining data accuracy with ease.
Key capabilities include the ability to flexibly define automation profiles within a dedicated app, the option to consider planning filters in automation rules, and multiple choices for executing corrections. Corrections can be performed either as part of the reconciliation job run or through a separate correction job, offering enhanced efficiency and customization for users.
Inventory
Budget Analytics and Time-Varying Service Level for Inventory
Prevent over-investment in lower-priority areas and ensure that resources are directed to where they are needed most by identifying misalignments between budgeted and actual inventory targets and maintaining stock availability and budget compliance. Inventory budgeting analytics enable businesses to strategically allocate their inventory budget across aggregate levels.
The new time-varying service level feature allows businesses to set different inventory targets based on changing demand patterns, seasons, or business priorities across different time horizons enabling more precise control over inventory levels, ensuring optimal stock positioning through time.
With enhanced financial controls for safety stock targets and improved flexibility in customer satisfaction goals, businesses can reduce safety stocks amidst budget constraints and adjust target service levels according to strategic, seasonal, or business priorities. Check out the video below that showcases how the sample Best Practice process integrates budgetary constraints into your sales, inventory, and operations planning processes.
MRO for IBP
The new MRO Inventory Balancing Operator matches surplus and shortage inventories based on customizable settings, addressing the challenges of intermittent part usage and reducing slow-moving and obsolete stock.
By recommending strategic transfers between locations, the operator helps businesses significantly cut unnecessary part spend and minimize waste. Balance inventory based on your preferred parameters, such as distance and cost, while transferring parts in full lots to prevent excessive shipment volumes. Experience improved efficiency and cost savings with this intuitive, customizable feature.
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