With each quarterly release of SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, SAP shares information on the newest features or important changes contained in the new release.
For your overview, below is a collection of the official SAP "What's New" content for the latest releases of SAP IBP (for the
year 2023). For each release, the following are listed:
- The "What's New" document of SAP Help Portal (in HTML & PDF format if full PDF is available)
- The "Available Now!" article in SAP Blogs
- The "What's New SAP Best Practices" video (plus related SAP Blogs article & SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) Best Practices Explorer)
- SAPIBP1 Documentation (which begins with a "What‘s New" section)
- The per-topic "What's New" webinars from the SAP Digital Supply Chain & S/4HANA Cloud Engagement Hub (with Recording & PDF)
Additionally, other release-specific information sources have also been added:
- Model Configuration Guide (in HTML & PDF format)
- Release Information Note
- Scope
- Security Guide (in HTML & PDF format)
- User Guide for SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel
- Application Help for SAP IBP for Supply Chain
As a functional consultant, I have found most of these sources indispensable for truly understanding IBP as it develops; whether for a certification study, or as a resource for customer-facing work.
Please note that an IBP release is codified by four digits. The first two digits of the release codification represent the year. The releases of year 2023, for example, start with 23. The last two digits represent the month of the release. IBP 2305 for example has been released in May 2023; and IBP 2308 has been released around August 2023. Each year has four releases, one every three months (February, May, August, November).
IBP 2311 (2023 October)
SAP Integrated Business Planning 2311 (SAP IBP OD 2311) has been released on October 27, 2023.
“What’s New” webinars:
- Synchronized Planning for Production (October, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Framework for key figure Integration
- Planning stock transfer requisitions and purchase requisitions from PP/DS in order integration
- Inventory Optimization, DDR, and Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) (October, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Inventory Optimization
- Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO)
- Response & Supply (October, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Time Series Planning-based Planning
- Order-based Planning
- Flexible, aggregated constraints on multi-purpose resources
- Subcontracting
- Freeze horizon
- Flexible determination of Minimum Remaining Shelf Life
- Further Enhancements (TLB, Sales Order custr attributes)
- Integration Topics and Extensions (October, 2023) Recording | PDF
- WebRFC 1:n attribute mapping
- Reminder - WebRFC migration - Sunset JDBC in 2402
- RTI Queue Bundling
- Planning Filters in RTI Outbound
- Introduction, SAP Best Practices, Manage Analytics Stories and Configuration Topics (October, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introduction & Documentation
- SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP for Supply Chain
- IBP Analytics Stories Update: Stories on SAPx7 planning areas
- Configuration Topics:
- IBP Process Management new features
- IBP Driver-Based Planning new features
- Consumption function and new OData services
- Administrator Apps (User Groups, Job Definitions, Planning filters, User Login Statistics)
- Master Data Checks
- Notes for Key Figures
- Assign Attributes to planning levels
IBP 2308 (2023 August)
SAP Integrated Business Planning 2308 (SAP IBP OD 2308) has been released on August 04, 2023.
“What’s New” webinars:
- Synchronized Planning for Production, Inventory Optimization, DDR, and Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) (July, 2023) Recording | PDF
- SYPP Key Figure Integration: Automated SoS mapping report
- SYPP Key Figure Integration: Automated SoS mapping report
- Inventory Optimization
- Demand-Driven Replenishment (DDR)
- Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO)
- Network Aggregation: Cost and Carbon Rollup (July, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Planning UI (July, 2023) Recording | PDF
- SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel
- Planner Workspaces
- Integration Topics and Extensions (July, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introducing New Master Data Integration
- Update on SAC write performance
- RTI: Mass reconciliation option
- Time Series Planning-based Planning
- Order-based Planning
- Flexible, aggregated constraints on multi-purpose resources
- Subcontracting
- Freeze horizon
- Flexible determination of Minimum Remaining Shelf Life
- Further Enhancements (TLB, Sales Order custr attributes)
- Introduction, SAP Best Practices, Manage Analytics Stories and Configuration Topics (July, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introduction & Documentation
- SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP for Supply Chain
- IBP Process Management new features
- IBP Driver-Based Planning new features
- Manage Analytics Stories App (new capabilities)
- A New Suppressible Error
- Administrator Apps enhancements (Job Notifications, Job Definitions, Resource Consumption, Planning Filters)
IBP 2305 (2023 May)
SAP Integrated Business Planning 2305 (SAP IBP OD 2305) has been released on May 05, 2023.
“What’s New” webinars:
- Synchronized Planning, Inventory Optimization and DDMRP (April, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Inventory Optimization
- Demand-Driven Replenishment (DDR)
- Order-Based Integration
- Planning UI (April, 2023) Recording | PDF
- SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel
- Planner Workspaces
- Response & Supply (April, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Time Series Planning-based Planning
- Order-based Planning
- Flexible, aggregated constraints on multi-purpose resources
- Subcontracting
- Freeze horizon
- Flexible determination of Minimum Remaining Shelf Life
- Further Enhancements (TLB, Sales Order custr attributes)
- Integration Topics and Extensions (April, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introducing New Master Data Integration
- Update on SAC write performance
- RTI: Mass reconciliation option
- Introduction, SAP Best Practices, and Configuration Topics (April, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introduction & Documentation
- SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP for Supply Chain
- IBP Process Management new features
- Manage Analytics Stories
- Filters for Reference Master Data Types
- Administrator Apps
- New App: Job Definitions
- New App: Telemetry Data
- New Grouping for Attribute as Key Figure Statistics
- New Business Catalogs for Job Scheduling & Identity and Access Management
IBP 2302 (2023 February)
SAP Integrated Business Planning 2302 (SAP IBP OD 2302) has been released on February 03, 2023.
“What’s New” webinars:
日本語版 ウェビナー (2022年1月) Recording
日本語版 (2022年1月) PDF
- Synchronized Planning, Inventory Optimization and DDMRP (January, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Inventory Optimization
- Demand-Driven Replenishment (DDR)
- Order-Based Integration
日本語版 (2022年1月) PDF
- Integration and Extensions (January, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introducing New Master Data Integration
- Update on SAC write performance
- RTI: Mass reconciliation option
日本語版 (2022年1月) PDF
- Planning UI (January, 2023) Recording | PDF
- SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel
- Planner Workspaces
日本語版 (2022年1月) PDF
- Response & Supply (January, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Time Series Planning-based Planning
- Order-based Planning
- TLB Interactive Planning & Loading Capacity Key Figures
- Local Optimization for Discrete Problems
- Further Enhancements
日本語版 (2022年1月) PDF
- Introduction, SAP Best Practices, and Configuration Topics (January, 2023) Recording | PDF
- Introduction & Documentation
- SAP Best Practices for SAP IBP for Supply Chain
- Process Management Within SAP IBP for Supply Chain
- Tasks Integrated with MS Teams
- Filters for Reference Master Data Types
- Administrator Apps
- Integrating Telemetry Data
- Propagation of Permission Filter Conditions from Component to Compound Master Data Types
- Enhancement to Job Cancellation in SAP Cloud Integration for Data Services
- New Communication Scenario for Scheduling Application Jobs Using External Tools
- How to Make Mass Changes to Business Users and Business Roles
日本語版 (2022年1月) PDF
I hope the resources may have been equally helpful to you in your SAP IBP journey.
If some of the documents above are new to you, it may be time for you to further explore the hub that centralizes most of them, namely
"SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain" on the SAP Help Portal.
If you weren't aware of the listed webinars, be sure to bookmark
"Integrated Business Planning" on the SAP Digital Supply Chain & S/4HANA Cloud Engagement Hub.
If you need more information about IBP in general, you may find some links below.
IBP General
One-Pagers:
Community:
Learning Journeys: