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SAP rolled out a comprehensive set of new AI-driven capabilities in the SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) solution that will enhance planning, decision-making, and the ability to act quickly across supply chains.
Key takeaways:
The new capabilities include:
- Harmonized planning area: Supports time-series and order-based planning, enabling users to move smoothly between strategic, tactical, and operational horizons, and supports telescopic planning.
- Configurable planner workspace: Centralizes analysis and decision-making, allowing users and decision-makers to monitor performance, simulate scenarios, and take action.
- Harmonized scenario simulations: Provides enhanced smart scenarios across time-series and order-based planning, supported by SAP’s AI copilot, Joule and new scenario comparisons.
- Embedded AI capabilities: Uses machine learning-assisted forecasting and inventory management to enhance planning processes and improve precision daily, weekly, and monthly.
- Joule integration: Provides contextual assistance and natural-language navigation, allowing planners to ask questions and receive instant, actionable insights from forecasts, supply plans, or multi-echelon inventory.
- Post-planning intelligence: Monitors performance against key performance indicators (KPIs) and identifies deviations early, helping close the loop between planning and execution.
- Characteristic-based planning: Includes powerful right fidelity supply planning, which assigns attributes that optimize stock and capacity matching, reducing master data complexity while maintaining compliance.
