SAP Integrated Business Planning
Plotting a course to value
Planning is paramount, especially when it comes to its impact on supply chain efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation. Integrating mature business planning capabilities can unlock potential value for your organisation by delivering real-time insights and execution capabilities throughout your supply chain. The cloud-based SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solution can improve your ability to anticipate supply chain bottlenecks, identify potential alternatives, and help you respond effectively and efficiently.
There are multiple paths you can take with SAP IBP to help maximise value from your supply chain investments. For some organisations, implementation speed is critical—requiring an accelerated path to results. Other organisations might require a more classic approach to IBP, covering requirements gathering and delivery of a tailored solution that operates within the capabilities of the standard SAP IBP platform. Some might require a highly customised IBP solution that can address evolving demands, strategic objectives, and unique requirements across the enterprise.
Whether you are looking for an expedited approach to achieve value with IBP or want to execute a large-scale transformation leveraging a broad custom solution, Deloitte can help. We offer three SAP IBP paths to help your organisation arrive at a solution that can satisfy your needs.
Accelerated Implementation
Instead of spending months scoping, planning, designing, building, testing and implementing a custom IBP solution, we can start with a preconfigured fast-track implementation, using a baseline approach developed and refined through previous implementations. You can essentially start realising value at “go”—recognising that the system can continue to evolve as processes mature. It’s an approach that can accelerate your ROI tremendously by generating impactful results in as little as 10-12 weeks.
Agile
For organisations that require a more tailored approach to IBP transformation, our Agile offering provides a practical but efficient solution—one aligned more with your specific needs. The rapid agile approach covers basic steps such as requirements-gathering followed by solution design to help deliver a solution that fits more closely with your business, addressing needs through standard functionalities offered by the SAP IBP platform.
Co-Innovation
For some organisations, needs can be very specific and may require more than tailoring the standard solution. Often, ambitious goals require bold moves and when encountered with difficult business challenges, it requires a deeper problem solving. Working with SAP, Deloitte has helped our clients undertake highly effective co-innovation projects. We have collaborated to design new features that address specific business requirements—in the process, gathering insights that can help shape future IBP solutions.* It’s a custom approach that can help extensively address unique needs while strategically positioning the organisation to meet future goals.
*Co-innovation projects subject to determination by SAP