Think Supply Chain Differently
SAP Help provides separate comparisons for Time Series (TS) and OBP planning engines. At SmartCons, we’ve merged these into a unified view, offering a side-by-side comparison for better decision-making. IBP Response and Supply Planning Approaches SAP IBP’s Response and Supply module features two primary approaches, each tailored for different planning needs: Time Series-Based Planning (TS)[…]
Background – Supply algorithms often provide a feasible plan and this plan may require further revision based on business realities. To reflect these business realities planner often need to review alerts or plan and then modify it so that it can be executed. With that said there are various possibilities which IBP offers to make[…]
Background – Order based planning has been now around for roughly ~7 years now and have gone through extensive changes. Order based planning has been designed to handle short term Supply planning and responding to order changes. Order based planning area can be done in standard delivered SAP7 or SAP7F planning areas. What is SAP7[…]
Background – Lot of times during scheduling process individual planned orders are merged to minimize/save setup time, this perfectly make sense from scheduling perspective as your objective is to create a schedule where you minimize changeovers however this can be challenging when these orders are running over multiple days as the output from planning perspective[…]
Background – Over past few years we have implemented IBP Order Based Planning Deployment optimizer for few customers mainly in Consumer goods industries where goods flow and Supply chain networks are complex , during implementation we have faced lot of challenges/hurdles. In this blog, we are trying to provide some insights to those challenges which[…]
Order based planning aka Response is a SAP IBP product/module which helps you do operational planning. It provides different form of planning runs which are basically Supply Planning and Deployment run. Order based planning is very tightly integrated to ECC/S4 and until end of last year the main mechanism to bring data to OBP Planning[…]
