SAP Integrated Business Planning helps you to create planning views to show demand, supply, inventory, capacity, to name a few. These views can be created using an Excel Plugin. A Web based planning view is also available from the SAP IBP’s cockpit. This planning view is often used as a…

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SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP in short) is a tool often used to create planning views to show demand, supply, inventory, capacity, to name a few. The variety of options of filtering, aggregating, and visualizing operational data across products, locations, customer, etc. provide a better visibility for demand planners…

Use a middleware to develop, trace and orchestrate multiple API calls with SAP IBP and external services. In the first part of this blog series, I explained the need for data collaboration in Supply chain planning and also about extracting data from SAP IBP. In the second blog of this…

Traditionally SAP Integrated Business Planning uses S/4 Hana or ECC as its system of records for most of its planning processes. In companies where data-driven insights are very important for decision making, the need for data collaboration is increasing becoming a standard practice. In SAP Integrated Business Planning, real-time simulations…

Odata APIs in SAP Integrated Business Planning for reading and writing data A set of REST based Odata APIs are available in SAP IBP to extract key figures and master data. It is also possible to use these APIs in an external middleware to extract planning data from SAP IBP. …

Using Experience data (X — data) in Qualtrics Experience Management to perform Demand Sensing in SAP Integrated Business Planning with Historical Sales Orders (O — Data) Traditionally demand sensing is performed in SAP Integrated Business Planning using historical sales orders, shipments and forecasts based on a planning level in an…

Preparing the X — data in Qualtrics Experience Management with reference to Forecast Models in SAP Integrated Business Planning Apart from historical sales, it is possible to understand the demand of a product by getting some idea about how customers perceive, value, trust and use a product. These factors can…

Setup to capture X — data in Qualtrics Core-XM and blend with Operational data in SAP Integrated Business Planning We capture product experience data using a survey hosted by Qualtrics XM product Experience tool. For customers to participate, the survey must be reachable to them as part of an experience…