Dear SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) Community,
At the beginning of 2020, no one predicted that a global pandemic would bring the global economy to a virtual standstill within weeks. The pandemic has affected our daily lives since then, and many of us work in our new home offices day in and day out. Before anything else, I sincerely hope that you are all doing well.
For companies relying on global supply chains, the pandemic was a wake-up call and has shown that companies that invest in resilient supply chain planning software outperform those that do not. I would like to quote a customer we recently spoke to. They said, “SAP IBP and having a connected digital supply chain provide you with incredible visibility so you can make agile decisions.” Well, I am really glad we are able to help.
I sincerely hope that you enjoy our annual newsletter, packed with key information, best practices, upcoming events, and customer stories.
Sincerely,
Thomas Klemm
Senior Vice President and Head of Supply Chain Planning
SAP SE
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When COVID-19 disrupted the manufacturing business, VELUX Group relied on SAP Integrated Business Planning.
Following an ambitious growth plan, ASG digitalized its end-to-end business processes. With unified processes and a simplified organizational structure, ASG has enhanced employee productivity using analytics to steer operational processes and risk management practices.
Kemira wanted to optimize planning across 60 manufacturing sites and 200 inventories to better support its team across regions. By building end-to-end planning capabilities, enabling demand-supply planning across product lines, and eliminating manual processes, Kemira has been able to improve supply chain reliability and efficiency.
James Hardie needed deeper insight into its supply chain as well as the ability to plan months in advance so it could balance orders against capacity. Using SAP IBP, it was able to achieve its goal of ensuring the lowest cost and highest profit while also exceeding expectations for service and quality.
A new multilanguage app used by 132 customers is helping companies with a global user base adopt
the planning process more easily when using SAP IBP.
In 2021, we will focus on creating exciting innovations for SAP Integrated Business Planning. One of
the top listed priorities for 2021 is synchronized planning, which will be continuously enhanced over
the course of the year. Watch our recently released vision demo video.
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