What is difference between SAP IBP and Apo?

What is difference between SAP IBP and Apo?

In this Blog Will try to understand the Difference between SAP APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization) and SAP Integrated Business Planning, in short, we call SAP IBP. SAP APO used to be the go-to planning tool for use with PP, but it has since been deprecated in favour of SAP IBP.

Is SAP IBP replacing Apo?

SAP IBP is SAP’s attempt to replace APO. For whatever reason, SAP decided that it needed a new solution — and this was supposedly an incremental solution, which began with S&OP.

What is IBP SAP?

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a cloud-based solution covering the requirements- and stock planning of your entire Supply Chain based on SAP HANA. SAP IBP features several different modules which can be operated independently or in combination with each other.

Is SAP IBP good?

IBP is just a generic planning solution in a pretty marketing wrapper. So far, it has not found very much implementation success, and surveys by Lora Cecere have found generally low satisfaction with IBP. Much of what IBP is offering is just usability through export to Excel.

What is SAP PPDS?

Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling(PPDS) on SAP S/4HANA is the product running on SAP S/4HANA. Production planning and detailed scheduling is a tool in APO(Advanced Planning and Optimization) which takes care of planning and scheduling considering the capacities of various resources.

What is advanced planning in SAP?

SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization provides a range of functions that can be used to plan and execute the supply chain processes in an organization. This is used to perform the coordination between partners at all stages of the supply chain process.

Is IBP part of s4 Hana?

“PP SOP is intended as a bridge or interim solution, which can be used until IBP is available as part of SAP S/4HANA and which allows you a stepwise system conversion from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA..”

Who uses SAP IBP?

Companies using SAP IBP for Integrated Business Planning Solution include: BENTELER International AG, a Germany based Automotive organisation with 26000 employees and revenues of $8.02 billions, BMI Group, a United Kingdom based Manufacturing organisation with 9600 employees and revenues of $1.70 billions, Entegris, a …

What is SAP IBP used for?

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a cloud-based planning software for supply chain management that uses real-time information to help companies respond more quickly to market and business volatility.

Does sap IBP include APO Production Planning and detailed scheduling?

By design SAP IBP does not include any replacement for the solutions provided by APO Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) and Global Available to Promise (GATP); they are now natively supported in S/4HANA (GATP functions are now replaced by Advanced ATP or AATP)

What are the different approaches to IBP in SAP?

As these last points suggest, SAP IBP is currently split into two main approaches: time-series planning and order-based planning. Historically, order-based planning was introduced for SAP IBP after time-series planning was developed, giving it some added advantages.

What is the difference between iBP and CVC in APO?

Where in SAP’s Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) a plannable combination (CVC or characteristic value combination) could only be created if there was a value for all criteria, IBP is less rigid. It allows the creation of a plannable combination if some criteria are known.

What is the difference between iBP for S&OP and Apo?

Many of the aggregation/disaggregation features of IBP for S&OP are only theoretically possible in APO. They are impractical in APO for large requirements. IBP for S&OP is a better solution for S&OP processes than APO.