Find out how Accenture can help you win the Supply Chain Planning challenges

1. SUPPLY
CHAIN
PLANNING
MADE
EASY
LEVERAGING
SAP INTEGRATED
BUSINESS PLANNING (IBP)
CAPABILITIES FOR
INCREASED FLEXIBILITY
AND ADAPTABILITY

2. SUPPLY CHAINS ARE
CHANGING…
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NEW BUSINESS
MODELS
PHYSICAL
NETWORK
COMPLEXITY
GEOPOLITICAL
CHANGES
RAPID PRODUCT
PROLIFERATION
DEMANDING
CUSTOMERS
EXPANDING
DATA
GROWTH OF NEW
DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGIES
ASSET
LIGHT
SUPPLY
CHAIN
MODELS
EXPONENTIAL
GROWTH OF
SUPPLY CHAIN
COMPLEXITY
Today’s supply chains are not set up to meet
the expectations of the rapidly evolving world…
… and many companies look at improving their supply
chain planning capabilities with Advanced Planning
tools implementations

3. CURRENT SUPPLY
CHAIN PLANNING
TOOLS ARE NOT UP
TO THE CHALLENGE
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RAPID PRODUCT
PROLIFERATION
ASSET LIGHT
SUPPLY CHAIN
MODELS
EXPANDING
DATA
NEW BUSINESS
MODELS
Traditional planning technologies have been unable to
keep up with changes driving today's supply chain
expectations, including:
Inability to manage the complexity of a fast
changing product portfolio, understanding
and anticipating market behavior and supply
chain constraints
Complex solutions, difficult to use, heavily
relying on planners’ manual intervention and
built in functional and technical silos are
preventing companies from fully exploiting
company-wide planning capabilities and new
business models
More than ever, companies are
transitioning to an “externalized”
supply chain model which requires
flexibility and ability to connect and
collaborate with partners in real-time
Digitalization, IoT and connected
systems are generating a wealth of data
that is currently not leveraged for supply
chain planning purposes due to
technology and architectural limitations

4. TRADITIONAL SUPPLY
CHAIN PLANNING
TOOLS LIMIT THE ABILITY
TO RESPOND TO TODAY'S
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
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Typical areas where traditional supply chain planning
tools are unable to provide the expected capabilities:
Poor Usability
& Visibility
Complex and inflexible User Interface,
too many screens and inability to
visualize and use the data as needed
Inflexibility Inability to easily adapt solutions to
changing needs and requirements
IT Complexity Planning solutions built to manage
all exceptions become complex
and cumbersome
Lack of
Automation
Limited automation of processes
and activities and high manual
intervention and required effort
from planners
Siloed
Approach
Inability to coordinate activities and
work on a single version of the truth
across departments

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PLANNING
SOLUTIONS
MUST BE
SIMPLE
AND
ADAPTABLE
TO CHANGE

6. SAP IBP PROVIDES
NEW ANSWERS
TO TODAY’S PLANNING
CHALLENGES
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Flexibility
SAP IBP is a modular solution based on a
single data model. Customization is
possible via Visual Basic (VBA). Extensibility
and quarterly releases for new functionalities.
Automation of planning functions both via SAP
and VBA functions. Enablement of
concurrent planning and execution
supported by SAP IBP Demand Sensing and
Response capabilities, complemented by SAP
Leonardo AI, Machine Learning and IoT
capabilities.
Automation
Ability to model the full structure of Sales &
Operations Planning (S&OP) cycles on a
Single Data Model, assigning tasks that can be
monitored and tracked, with ability to
collaborate on multi-user scenarios
Company
Orchestration
SAP IBP is offered as a SaaS cloud-only
solution that drives adoption of best practices,
does not support custom developments and
offers a simple, streamlined solution
Simplicity
Use Excel as the main planning interface. SAP
IBP’s ability to connect with any sources and to
setup flexible attribute supports the creation of a
common data model that can easily be
navigated and interpreted with control tower
analytics and alerts
Usability &
Visibility

7. FLEXIBILITY
COMPLEMENT OUT-OF-THE BOX
FUNCTIONALITY WITH AD-HOC
CAPABILITIES
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SAP INTEGRATED BUSINESS
PLANNING
SAP Roadmap
Quarterly updates from SAP to
provide new, advanced features to
continuously evolve and keep
planning solution current
Flexibility with VBA
Leverage the Excel add-on to exploit
VBA capabilities to automate, adapt
and customize your planning tool
Plug and Play to the NEW
SAP Cloud Platform - an open platform as a service (PaaS) - provides in-memory
capabilities, platform services, and unique business services for building and
extending personalized, collaborative, mobile-enabled cloud applications. SAP
Cloud Platform is a means by which to personalize applications for individual
business priorities and integrate them with core enterprise applications, as well
as empower new applications .
SAP Leonardo provides advanced
capabilities such as:
• Machine Learning and AI
• IoT
• Big Data
• Analytics
• Blockchain
SAP Cloud Platform* allows creating
customized Apps and functionality,
accessible in a seamless fashion and
with a common User Interface
* SAP Cloud Platform features are not yet available for
SAP IBP and are indicated on SAP Roadmaps as
“Future Direction”, with no planned date
HANA Cloud Platform
SAP Leonardo

8. AUTOMATION
POWER INNOVATION WITH SAP
LEONARDO
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UNLOCK
DYNAMIC SUPPLY
CHAIN
INNOVATION
ENABLE SELF-
DRIVING SUPPLY
CHAIN
POWER ADAPTIVE
CUSTOMER
DRIVEN SUPPLY
CHAIN
SAMPLE LEONARDO APPLICATIONS FROM ACCENTURE
Use Applied
Intelligence capabilities
to learn and accurately
mimic complex
decisions by supply
chain planners, allowing
planners to focus on
critical decisions
INTELLIGENT
PLANNER
Leverage advanced
analytics and AI
capabilities in SAP
Leonardo to optimize the
critical Supply Chain
parameters. Eventually
automate the policy
setting based on real
time challenges.
INTELLIGENT
PLANNING
MASTER DATA
OPTIMIZATION
Establish forecast ability
based on the calculated
dimensions.
Automatically classify
products based on the
key dimension
leveraging advanced
analytics capabilities in
SAP Leonardo
DYNAMIC
CUSTOMER &
PRODUCT
SEGMENTATION
LEVERAGE SAP LEONARDO AI AND
MACHINE LEARNING CAPABILITIES
TO EXPAND THE REACH OF SAP IBP
PLANNING CAPABILITIES

9. AUTOMATION
SUPPLY CHAIN DECISION
SUPPORTED BY LEONARDO:
INTELLIGENT PLANNER
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AUTOMATE FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS WITH SAP
LEONARDO ADVANCED ANALYTICS AND MACHINE
LEARNING
✓ Self-learning automatic correction algorithm to maximize forecast
accuracy
✓ Learn from the planner adjustments to improve forecast
✓ Consider various external factors
✓ Potential to automate forecast adjustments for up to 70% of
products
Statistical Forecast and
Adjusted Forecast
Corrected & Enriched
ForecastSAP IBP SAP LEONARDO
INTELLIGENT
DEMAND PLANNING
Supported by Machine Learning
and Artificial Intelligence
INTEGRATED
WITH SAP IBP

10. BREAK THE SILO
AND ENABLE COMPANY-WIDE
COORDINATED PLANNING
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Single Data
Model
S&OP Cycle
Process
Modelling
Workflow and
Tasks
Share data &
information,
Notes and Reason Codes
Multi-User
Scenario
Management
Collaboration
via Hybris and
Ariba
Full Visibility
Currently, companies are still working in functional silos,
with different organizations unable to efficiently connect
and cooperate with a single-purpose approach due to
limitations in the organizational setup and the supporting
IT applications.
SAP IBP collaboration features enable a journey beyond
Level 3 of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
maturity model
SAP
Integrated
Business
Planning

11. IF YOU CAN’T BEAT
EXCEL - JOIN IT
Experience show us that planning tools have been
unable to reduce uncontrolled excel use.
IBP allows you to structure and control it.
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Access and navigate
SAP IBP directly from
Excel
Execute all IBP
functions from Excel
Easy mass-
maintenance of
masterdata
Drilling, slicing and
dicing
Real-time Excel
graphs on loaded
data
Edit all data directly in Excel,
with ability to use formulas, VBA
and other Excel commands on
IBP data

12. UNDERSTANDABLE
DATA, ON THE FLY
Easy to set up analytics, dashboards and alerts for users
to quickly access and understand data, anytime,
anywhere
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Anytime, anywhere
access, from PC or
Mobile
Common data model
Web access to SAP
Fiori applications for
planning and data
analysis
Advanced alerts and
exception
management
Quick, real time
analytics, graphs and
dashboards

13. THE AUTOMATION
JOURNEY
FOR SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING
SAP’S Supply Chain Management ecosystem of tools
enables companies to improve on key focus areas while
reducing planning efforts with increased automation and
Artificial Intelligence
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Enable true exception based planning*
by leveraging SAP IBP planning capabilities,
real-time analytics, advanced alerts and control
tower capabilities
Reduce effort on determination and
maintenance of key supply chain
parameters with Machine Learning
and AI** to determine segmentation,
forecast models, best level to forecast.
Use machine learning to learn from
reality and continuously improve and
adjust the planning model**
Speed up data
maintenance with
Excel capabilities
and VBA* functions to
automate user tasks
Master the short term
with demand sensing* and
supply response* functions.
Use external data such as
IoT** to gather required
information to feed IBP and
Machine Learning** and
get automated, real-time
intelligent and actionable
recommendations
* SAP IBP capabilities
** SAP Leonardo Capabilities

14. PLAN YOUR JOURNEY
TO THE NEW
Navigating through SAP’s ecosystem of new planning tools
requires a carefully thought-through approach, to fully leverage
the potential offered by new, advanced technologies.
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More than IT
Moving to the NEW require not just an
IT system implementation but it involves
a broader transformation of the Supply
Chain business model.
Accenture’s expertise spans across all
relevant areas, from strategy to process
excellence to technology
Client Specific Roadmap
SAP’s new suite of tools is still evolving. Accenture
can support in defining the right roadmap to exploit the
best-fit capabilities at the right time, thus reducing
implementation challenges*
* SAP IBPs modules are currently at different maturity levels.
Order-based planning is among the newest and most rapidly evolving and Integration between IBP and S4 is
currently not at the desired level of completeness
SAP’s roadmap, market presence and solution stack put SAP in a unique position to bridge these gaps versus
other SAP applications
Accelerated Value
Leverage Accenture’s
Intelligent Enterprise
Platform (AIEP) ready-
to-use assets to boost
IBP implementations and
rapidly deliver value
Best Practices
Accenture’s Intelligent
Enterprise Platform
(AIEP) provides
references and
templates to guide
the adoption of SAP
IBP best practices,
combined with industry
and process excellence

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