by Andrew Boyle (Author), Andrew Boyle (Author), Robert Kepczynski (Author), Raghav Jandhyala (Author), Ganesh Sankaran (Author), Alecsandra Dimofte (Author)
This book provides comprehensive guidance on leveraging SAP IBP technology to connect strategic, tactical and operational planning into one coherent process framework, presenting experience shared by practitioners in workshops, customer presentations, business, and IT transformation projects. It also offers use cases and a wealth of practical tips to ensure that readers understand the challenges and advantages of IBP implementation.
The book starts by characterizing disconnected planning and contrasting this with key elements of a transformation project approach. It explains the functional foundations and SAP Hybris, Trade Promotion Planning, Customer Business Planning, ARIBA, and S/4 integration with SAP IBP. It then presents an example of a process for integrating finance in IBP. Annual business planning and monthly strategic product planning are taken as examples of explain Strategic Planning. The core of the book is dedicated to tactical sales and operations planning (S&OP) and its process steps, product demand, supply review, integrated reconciliation and management business review, illustrating all steps with use cases. It also describes unconstrained and constrained-but-optimized supply planning, inventory optimization, and shelf life planning in detail, and explains how to improve responsiveness with order-based allocation planning, sales order confirmation, and big deal / tender management coupled with simultaneous re-planning of supply. The book closes with a chapter on performance measurement, focusing on effectiveness, efficiency, and adherence. Throughout, the book includes use cases to connect process and technology through use.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 477
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Publisher: Springer
Published: 02 Aug 2018
ISBN 10: 3319900943
ISBN 13: 9783319900940
Robert Kepczynski has more than 20 years experience in supply chain management and technology. Robert does assess, design and implement people capability models, process design and delivers efficient technology solutions. He is specialized in supply chain planning processes and technologies. Robert took business roles in plant supply / production planning and sequencing, inventory and materials management, warehouse and duty operations, costing and budgeting, in market IBP and S&OP, distribution planning, and in regional & global S&OP, sales forecasting, demand planning and demand management, and process ownership. Robert led x-functional transformation programs delivering functional optimization and differentiation. He contributed to the worldwide 2nd largest SAP IBP implementation, which has started in 2013 and proved that Robert has heart, head and hand for IBP.
Ganesh Sankaran is a Supply Chain Management technology practitioner. Ganesh helps clients solve business problems and generate value from their supply chain processes, particularly in the planning domain. Ganesh possesses a skillset that combines deep theoretical insights in SCM and rich implementation experience in SAP solutions further enriched by around seven years of prior software development experience.