SAP IBP Automation

Get the most out of SAP IBP: With HONICO Workload Automation, you can plan background processes from SAP IBP centrally and control them without errors.

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Automation of SAP IBP: Optimize your planning processes across systems

Seamlessly integrate SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) into your workflows and improve the efficiency of your entire supply chain planning. Use Workload Automation (WLA) to eliminate manual processes, reduce errors and speed up your response times.
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Automate your background processes - hybrid and cross-system.

Our solution automatically triggers jobs, eliminating the need for manual intervention and direct system access. Teams without native access to a specific system still retain full control over the process from our tool. 

Whether S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BW or non-SAP processes – HONICO controls them centrally and integrates them seamlessly into SAP IBP. In the event of errors, processes such as stock levels in a plant can be automatically repeated or skipped without interrupting the entire process chain. Time buffers and time-consuming reworking are no longer necessary.

With HONICO Automation, your process control runs reliably, efficiently and smoothly.
HONICO's workload automation solution has transformed how we manage our SAP IBP processes. By seamlessly sequencing interconnected jobs across S/4HANA, BW, and IBP, it has eliminated manual overnight work and streamlined our operations. The tool's ability to handle job failures and restarts automatically has significantly improved efficiency, allowing us to optimize time windows and delegate monitoring tasks to junior team members with its user-friendly interface.
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What is SAP IBP - SAP Integrated Business Planning?

SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) is a cloud-based solution that enables real-time supply chain planning and control. With features such as “what-if” simulations, real-time alerts and extensive collaboration across different business units, SAP IBP helps to avoid bottlenecks and ensure seamless planning.

SAP IBP offers numerous benefits, but there are also challenges when scheduling jobs. You need to schedule specific tasks in SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) to perform regular tasks such as clearing log data. These jobs are crucial for the execution of processes such as sales planning, statistical forecasting or other business planning processes. They also ensure the error-free and timely transfer of data between different systems.

Unfortunately, scheduling options are limited and require a lot of manual work or intervention. Cross-system jobs cannot be accessed via SAP IBP job scheduling. Here, SAP recommends external tools that have supported alerting so that administrators are informed in the event of an error and or an error behavior can be specified.

A scheduler or modern workload automation gives users extended functions to plan and control background processes from SAP IBP automatically and centrally.

Advantages of SAP IBP:

  • Demand planning: accurately forecast future demand to adapt your supply chain to customer requirements.

  • Inventory optimization: Optimize stock levels while taking demand variability and costs into account.

  • Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP): Facilitate collaboration between departments and make informed decisions in real time.

  • Production planning: Create realistic production plans taking capacity and suppliers into account.

  • Response and scenario planning: Simulate scenarios for rapid responses to market changes or supply chain disruptions

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Typical challenges in supply chain planning with SAP IBP:

  • Complex implementation: Time and resource-intensive, requires expertise to adapt to individual requirements.
  • Data integration: Difficulties in integrating data from different sources lead to inaccurate forecasts and suboptimal decisions.
  • User acceptance: Complex user experience requires training and change management.
  • Cost: Initial implementation costs can be significant, requiring careful cost-benefit analysis.
  • Limited customization options: Limitations in customization, especially in job scheduling, require a lot of manual activity or intervention.

Do you recognize these challenges in your company? Then it's time for an automation solution.

With Workload Automation (WLA), you can fully automate and optimize your SAP IBP processes. Our solution helps you to automate recurring tasks, simplify complex workflows and improve overall operations.

How HONICO Workload Automation can support your SAP IBP

  • Automation of processes: Reduce manual activities and increase the efficiency of your processes.
  • Improved alerting and error minimization: Close gaps in alerting and troubleshooting by setting up automated alerts and minimizing system errors.
  • Cross-system job control: Schedule cross-system background jobs from on-premise and cloud systems that would otherwise not be possible in SAP IBP.
  • Rule-based planning with special calendar
  • Event-driven jobs

Learn more about how HONICO Workload Automation can optimize your SAP IBP processes.

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