- SAP IBP Demand Planning: This module focuses on forecasting demand using advanced statistical models and machine learning algorithms to enable companies to come up with more accurate demand plans and reduce forecast errors, thus raising customer satisfaction by ensuring supply keeps pace with market demand.
- SAP IBP for Supply Planning: The supply planning module adjusts inventory levels, production, and distribution plans across the entire network. It assists organizations in reducing costs, preventing stockouts, and improving service levels to align with their business objectives.
- SAP IBP Response and Supply: This functionality allows real-time monitoring of supply chains and immediate responses to unexpected shifts in demand or supply, ensuring business continuity and minimizing disruptions. It supports scenario planning, what-if analyses, as well as instantaneous decision-making.
- SAP IBP sales and operations planning (S&OP): This module, a hallmark of SAP IBP, links sales, marketing, and supply chain to enhance overall business performance in terms of financial performance. It does not confine itself to any specific dimension, such as customer satisfaction, as it integrates all financial and tactical plans to ensure that all functional areas are working towards the same goals.
- SAP IBP for Demand-Driven Replenishment: Supporting demand-driven supply chain strategies such as Demand-Driven MRP (DDMRP). Unlike traditional demand forecasting models, the module helps companies achieve higher service levels with less inventory, based on true customer demand.