SAP Connected Planning

Why, What and How?

Chris Newdick

SAP Enterprise Architect

Agenda

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1. Why & What is Integrated Planning?

2. How - What are SAP’s main planning tools?

3. Extend planning with Artificial Intelligence

4. Q&A

Agenda

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1. Why & What is Integrated Planning?

2. How - What are SAP’s main planning tools?

3. Extending Planning with Artificial Intelligence

4. Q&A

Why is Integrated Planning Important - Questions

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• What changes do we need to make to our products to keep our customers

happy?

• How is the constrained forecast impacting the profit and loss (P&L)

projection?

• How are the supply chain decisions driving the product profitability?

• Should the company extend the capacity in-house or outsource to a contract

manufacturer?

• How will the new pricing policy shape the projected sales?

• How many people do we need to execute our strategy?

• What impact are our marketing campaign having on our profitability?

What is Integrated Planning?

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Sales Planning

Financial PlanningMarketing Planning

Workforce Planning Sales & Operations Planning

Situation so far – Siloed Approach

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Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) – Account Based

Supply Chain Planning –Constrained

• Financial Statements

• Budget Planning

• Cost Center Planning

• Headcount & Asset Planning

• ECC

• BPC

• APO

• Excel

• Other

• Supply Chain Constraints

• High Level Finance projections

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1. Why & What is Integrated Planning?

2. How - What are SAP’s main planning tools?

3. Extending Planning with Artificial Intelligence

4. Q&A

The Transition – From APO to IBP & S/4HANA

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SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO)

Demand Planning

Supply Network

Planning

Production

Planning/ Detailed

Scheduling

Global

Available-to-

Promise

S/4HANA SAP IBP

Three Key Pillars – Future Planning Tools

IBP Analytics

Cloud

S/4HANA

Supply Chain Planning

Production Planning

Financial Planning

High Level Process

Build Demand Plan

Build Supply Response Plan

Create Material Requirements

Plan Production Scheduling

Create Financial Plan

Pull together other LoB Plans

SAP IBP

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Analytics CloudAvailable to Promise

SAP IBP

Supply Chain Control Tower

Exception Handling and Business Network Collaboration

Sales & Operations

Strategic and Tactical Decision Processes

Demand

Statistical Forecasting,

Consensus Planning &

Demand Sensing

Inventory

Inventory Optimization

Response & Supply

Order Rescheduling

Planning & Deployment

Allocations

SAP HANA

One Integrated Supply Chain Planning Model

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What-if

scenario

simulation

Social

collaboration

Integrated

SCP

processes

Real-time

insight &

Monitoring

Machine

learning

Simplified User

Experience

Demo Flow

Build Demand Plan

Build Supply Response Plan

Create Material Requirements

Plan Production Scheduling

Create Financial Profitability

Plan

Pull together other LoB Plans

SAP IBP

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Analytics CloudAvailable to Promise

Supply Chain Planning

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SAP S/4HANA

Monitor Capacity

Utilization

Material

Requirements &

Capacity Planning

Convert the Plan

Demo Flow

Build Demand Plan

Build Supply Response Plan

Create Material Requirements

Plan Production Scheduling

Create Financial Profitability

Plan

Pull together other LoB Plans

SAP IBP

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Analytics CloudAvailable to Promise

Production Planning

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SAP Analytics Cloud

One Analytics tool− Visualizations

− Planning

− Predictive

Machine Learning and

Artificial Intelligence

Edit & Share plans

Act in the Moment Continuously Collaborate Intelligent Enterprise

Demo Flow

Build Demand Plan

Build Supply Response Plan

Create Material Requirements

Plan Production Scheduling

Create Financial Profitability

Plan

Pull together other LoB Plans

SAP IBP

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Analytics CloudAvailable to Promise

Financial Planning

• SAC recorded demonstration

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Agenda

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1. Why & What is Integrated Planning?

2. How - What are SAP’s main planning tools?

3. Extending Planning with Artificial Intelligence

4. Q&A

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Agenda

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1. Why & What is Integrated Planning?

2. How - What are SAP’s main planning tools?

3. Extending Planning with Artificial Intelligence

4. Q&A