Bringing your Demand, Supply, Inventory, and S&OP together in a single consistent plan with SAP Integrated Business Planning
msg helps you implement and optimize SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) so demand, supply, inventory, and S&OP run on one aligned plan — connected to SAP S/4HANA execution.
Why SAP IBP and why now?
Supply chains change faster than traditional monthly planning cycles. SAP IBP helps organizations plan with one consistent baseline, manage exceptions, and make trade-offs between service, inventory, capacity, and cost using scenarios.
SAP IBP is SAP’s cloud planning solution suite that connects demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, and S&OP in one planning environment. SAP IBP uses a shared planning model (planning areas, key figures, master data types, and time profiles) so teams can work from one set of assumptions and compare scenarios before committing decisions.
As a global SAP specialist, we help enterprises implement, transform, migrate, and optimize their supply chain planning with SAP IBP to achieve measurable cost reductions, operational excellence, resilience, and strategic agility. msg delivers SAP IBP as a business outcome program - process, data, governance, and integration so that planning decisions become executable actions.
msg delivers
- Planning-to-execution integration: SAP IBP planning outputs align with SAP S/4HANA processes to reduce manual handovers.
- Governed decisions: S&OP and cross-functional planning runs with explicit decision rights, cadence, and KPI ownership.
Adoptable user experience: planners work in SAP IBP Excel and the SAP IBP web UI with role-based workflows.
Your contact
Jarrett Leesch
VP Supply Chain Sales
Typical planning challenges we address with SAP IBP
Organizations often struggle with misaligned plans, inaccurate forecasts, infeasible supply plans, and fragmented inventory targets, resulting in inefficiency and volatility across the business.
- Conflicting numbers across teams
- Forecast inaccuracy drives inventory swings
- Supply plans are not feasible
- Inventory targets are set locally, not end-to-end
- S&OP meetings generate slides, not decisions
With SAP IBP, these challenges are addressed by aligning teams around a single set of numbers and enabling decision-driven, end-to-end planning.
Benefits of SAP IBP
SAP IBP improves forecast accuracy, reduces inventory and working capital, and increases service reliability through integrated, feasible planning. By aligning demand, supply, and finance on one baseline, organizations respond faster to change and execute with confidence.
- Higher forecast accuracy and reduced bias through standardized demand planning and assumption management.
- Lower inventory and working capital by aligning inventory targets to explicit service policies.
- Improved service reliability (e.g., OTIF) because feasible plans reduce last-minute firefighting.
- Faster disruption response through scenario planning and shorter replanning cycles.
- Better cross-functional alignment because demand, supply, and finance work from one baseline.
Business Value - Tangible Outcome
Whether you are a C-level executive, a supply chain director or a planner, SAP IBP provides you tangible results on all levels.
One planning baseline and shared planning model
Structured demand planning and transparent assumptions
Feasibility-oriented supply planning and exception handling
Inventory optimization based on service targets and variability
Scenario comparison, KPI tracking, and a repeatable cadence
Reduce operational costs and manual handling
Eliminate redundancies through intelligent workflows
Real-time transparency - track every order, item, and resource digitally
Scalability supports business growth through modular design
With our customers, msg defines a baseline, then tracks outcomes across each release. Typical KPI examples for a customer:
- Forecast accuracy (MAPE) and forecast bias
- Service level attainment, OTIF, backlog
- Inventory turns, days of supply, working capital tied up in stock
- Planning cycle time, number of manual interventions per cycle
Our SAP IBP services and solution portfolio:
- SAP IBP scope definition (Demand/Supply/Inventory/S&OP)
- Planning operating model design (roles, cadence, decision rights, governance)
- KPI framework and value measurement approach
- Planning-to-execution strategy aligned to SAP S/4HANA
Accelerate SAP IBP adoption with a structured, value-focused approach - from blueprint to go-live. Our experts ensure your IBP deployment supports your supply chain strategy from day one.
- Project and program management following msg.Scout and SAP Activate Methodologies
- Planning model design using SAP IBP foundation concepts (planning areas, key figures, master data types, time profiles)
- Configuration of planning processes, alerts, and exception-based workflows
- Planner enablement for Excel and web UI workspaces
- Performance, integration, and scenario-based testing aligned to real planning cycles
Got SAP APO and need to migrate? Transform and migrate seamlessly from SAP APO to SAP IBP. Using accelerators and data governance frameworks, we reduce downtime and risk throughout your transformation journey.
- Transformation/migration planning and impact analysis including planning modernization
- Data mapping, conversion, and cleansing
- Process redesign for planning models
- Cutover execution and go-live transition support
- Post-migration stabilization
- Global template and rollout approach with managed localization
- Data readiness, master data governance, and planning data quality controls
Extend functionality through custom configurations and industry-specific enhancements that give you a competitive edge.
- Process extensions for planning and automation
- Enhancements for advanced reporting and analytics
- Customer-specific planning views, KPI dashboards, and workflow tailoring
- Enhancements around alerts, approvals, and decision traceability (where appropriate)
- Integration extensions for non-SAP sources and planning consumers
- Individual development (i.e. custom RF screens, mobile transactions, or Fiori apps)
- Training for multiple roles (planners, process owners)
- Planner playbooks and “day-in-the-life” cycle simulations
- Adoption metrics to make go-live sustainable
- Hypercare and stabilization focused on planning cycle reliability
- Application management support (AMS) under SLAs
- Incident resolution and root-cause analysis
- Preventive maintenance and patch management
- Regular upgrades, S/4HANA migrations, and release management
- Continuous improvement backlog, KPI monitoring, and quarterly optimization
- Integration monitoring and data quality checks to prevent silent planning degradation
msg develops accelerators and optimizers to enhance projects execution and daily operations.
- Accelerator approach: templates for planning governance, KPI baselining, testing packs, and rollout playbooks
Why msg is the right partner for you
- SAP Gold Partner and proven global scale delivering SAP logistics solutions across regions
- SAP Supply Chain and SAP IBP Certified Experts: Deep technical and functional expertise
- Accelerated Deployment: Leveraging Best Practices, industry specific process templates and accelerators
- Governed Delivery: Predictable outcomes via standardized project methodologies
- Value Continuity: Full lifecycle engagement from design to optimization
SAP IBP Features
SAP IBP is recognized as one of the top supply chain planning systems. SAP IBP covers your supply chain planning management requirements with features such as:
- Planning in near real-time with integration across the various business areas (finance, operations)
- Day-to-day operations aligned with the mid- and long-term plans of the business
- Simulation and scenario comparisons using what-if analyses
- Business-wide collaboration
- Performance monitoring
- Forecasting and working across business areas to create demand plans
- Short-term forecast refinements based on demand sensing
- Combining forecasting and processing algorithms to support planning
- Time-series analysis based on historical data
- Supporting optimization through statistical models and algorithms
- Balancing inventory and service levels in your supply chain network with multi-echelon inventory optimization/Global (Multi-Stage) Inventory Optimization
- Visibility and insights into your inventories
- Using supply planning heuristics and optimizers for supply plan creating and adaptation
- Balancing capacities and material constraints Rough-cut planning
- Creation of operational or order-based supply plan and use prioritization rules for allocations and order promising
Ready to elevate your planning with SAP IBP?
msg helps you move from “planning outputs” to planning decisions that execute - with clear scope, strong governance, and integration aligned to SAP S/4HANA.
- Book an SAP IBP expert session
- Request a Readiness Assessment
- Assess SAP APO-to-IBP migration options
Jarrett Leesch
VP Supply Chain Sales