The final piece of the puzzle is now in place for SAP’s cloud-based supply chain planning platform, with the release of the SAP Integrated Business Planning 6.1 application for response and supply.
The new application, based on the SAP HANA platform, helps companies to plan based on demand priorities and adapt quickly to increased demand or supply disruptions, with analysis of what-if scenarios and constraints in the supply chain enabled.
With this release, all major components of SAP Integrated Business Planning are now available, covering the end-to-end planning process of sales and operations planning, demand sensing and planning, supply and allocations planning, response planning and inventory optimisation.
“SAP Integrated Business Planning for response and supply continues our innovative path toward a holistic, seamless, easy-to-use, planning suite,” said Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president, extended supply chain, SAP. “Since its original release in 2012, the suite has grown dramatically in cross-industry customer adoption as well as in functional breadth. By taking advantage of our cloud-based planning innovations, our customers can experience improved service levels, significant reductions in working capital and enhanced planner productivity.”
SAP Integrated Business Planning 6.1 includes enhancements across all components, as well as an SAP rapid-deployment solution. SAP is also offering a promotional package for existing customers of the SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization component and the SAP Enterprise Inventory and Service-Level Optimization Analytics analytic application.
