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SAP Integrated Business Planning 2508 is now generally released and it's loaded with substantial enhancements!
With SAP IBP 2508, we’re introducing the harmonized planning area I_SAPIBP2, a flexible platform for end-to-end processes across planning applications. It supports both time-series and order-based data, allowing configuration of harmonized tactical and operational supply chain planning processes with greater ease, accuracy, and maintainability.
With integrated, harmonized tools and processes, planners can smoothly adopt additional SAP IBP capabilities, leading to better reporting and planner efficiency. Improved flexibility in time-series supply planning helps businesses quickly adapt to changing demands and market conditions.
Key features of the harmonized planning area include a unified data model that covers master data types, planning levels, and key figures, ensuring consistency across planning processes. Centralized application mapping and name space management as well as a new central unit of measure and currency conversion help to streamline configuration. Additionally, planners have on-the-fly access to order key figures, enabling more informed decision-making.
The harmonized planning area introduces a new standard for seamless integration with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA (on premise) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. It supports Real-Time Integration (RTI) in combination with the Cloud Integration (CI) component from the SAP Integration Suite, establishing this pairing as the new normal for fast, flexible, and robust integration. RTI enables real-time synchronization of master, order, and stock data.
SAP Cloud Integration complements this by handling key figure data transfers and offering connectivity to other SAP systems, third-party platforms, legacy systems, databases, and files.
Out-of-the-box predefined content simplifies setup and ongoing maintenance, making it easier than ever to achieve tight, efficient integration across all features of the harmonized planning area.
Now, explore with us some of the other highlights of this release:
Demand
Statistical Forecasting with AI-Powered Insights
By harnessing the power of generative AI, this feature offers explanations and recommendations to increase transparency and help planners to better understand the statistical forecast results. Simply click the "Explain" button for instant access to a comprehensive summary and detailed analysis of your latest forecast run.
Key capabilities include delivering an easy-to-understand summary of the latest forecast run for a selected planning combination, offering actionable recommendations and providing in-depth explanations of individual forecasting methods. AI-Assisted Analysis of Forecasting Results is integrated into the SAP IBP add-in for Microsoft Excel and Planner Workspaces, ensuring a smooth and efficient user experience.
This feature is currently available exclusively for early adopters. If you want to use it, contact SAP and request the activation using the SCM-IBP-DM component.
Planning UIs
Seamless Workflow Navigation: Effortlessly Pinpoint and Resolve Planning Challenges
Planner Workspaces streamlines your planning experience by seamlessly guiding you from identifying issues to applying solutions. SAP IBP 2508 takes this capability to new heights by integrating gating factors from order-based planning into contextual navigation.
With our enhanced workflow, you can now swiftly navigate directly to the root cause of any planning obstacle, whether it's a gating resource or component constraint. Dedicated planning views provide a clear overview of supply and demand dynamics at these critical bottlenecks, empowering you to make informed adjustments. By encompassing both gating resources and components, this feature accelerates root cause analysis and resolution improving planning efficiency and decision-making.
Focused Access with Workbook Variants in Planner Workspaces
Introducing a powerful new feature in Planner Workspaces that eliminates the need to scan large, unfiltered data sets to access the data you need. This targeted approach significantly reduces data volume, enhances speed and focus, and delivers a smoother experience to your planning process.
You can now segment your data using attributes like “Product ID” and “Customer ID”, allowing you to quickly select specific combinations and automatically filter your workbook accordingly.
In addition to the ability to save filters as workbook variants for convenient access (such as the product group you manage), you can easily proceed to the next item once you have finished reviewing the data.
Highlight the Data that Matters Most with AI-Driven Formatting Rules
The SAP IBP add-in for Microsoft Excel now harnesses the power of AI to help you create formatting rules using natural language. This groundbreaking feature allows you to surface key insights from large data sets, enhancing clarity, speed, and confidence in your decision-making process.
Simply type what you need, such as "Show two decimal places for available capacity," "Apply red font for unfulfilled demand greater than 0," or "Highlight the top 10% of sales revenues."
From quick formatting to advanced rules, AI instantly highlights the data that matters most, empowering you to navigate complex information with ease and stay focused on what truly drives your business forward.
This feature is currently available exclusively for early adopters. To test it, contact SAP using the SCM-IBP-XLS-UI component.
Foundation
End-to-End Processes with Cross-System Stock Transfers in Real Time
A new real-time integration (RTI) feature increases planner visibility by tightly coupling purchase and sales orders in SAP IBP through a common stock transfer order.
In customer environments with multiple SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA on premise, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition systems, materials are transferred between plants of different systems or even between plants of different companies within the same ERP system. RTI now supports an end-to-end process of material transfers into harmonized planning areas and order-based planning areas with flexible master data. The purchase and sales orders required for transferring materials between ERP systems or companies are no longer loosely coupled documents, but they’re integrated as stock transfer orders.
The integration supports cross-system and cross-company stock transfers, enabling stock transfers across multiple systems or companies for financial and tax benefits. Additionally, it facilitates smoother migrations from ERP systems to SAP S/4HANA.
Simplified Job Scheduling with Joule
Excited to introduce a powerful new capability in Joule that brings job execution and monitoring right to your fingertips - no app-switching required.
With this update, you can list your saved jobs with a simple ask and schedule jobs directly through Joule. You can also check job statuses, including your own jobs, failed jobs from today, or jobs created by colleagues.
Whether you're triggering a forecasting run, managing S&OP, or executing order-based planning, Joule empowers you to act instantly from anywhere in the SAP Fiori UI: Just ask - and get it done.
This is interactive planning, reimagined for speed and simplicity.
More Information
- SAP IBP What’s New Webinars 2508
- 2508 What’s New: Help Portal Documentation
- What’s New in Best Practices
- SAP IBP Community Page
- SAP IBP Roadmap
- SAP Customer Influence Portal for SAP IBP
- Questions? Ask here
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