In Q2 2022, SAP is planning to release the 2205 upgrade of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) with numerous new features & many awaited innovations. The following are our top ten features of SAP IBP 2205:
This new feature enables the users to create, edit, and delete mass editing of the master data in the Manage Master Data App.
Two new Apps are going to be introduced with the latest version of SAP IBP which will help planners to use planning notes more effectively. They are:
With the latest version, we can use the calculated and Stored and calculated key figures for time series-based supply planning forecast consumption as input if the calculations are at the same planning level. The O/P key figure must be stored in nature but also permit stored and calculated nature.
Previously, in the SAP IBP Formatting Sheet, it was not possible to apply a specific format for key figures that had the Display as Percentage checkbox selected in the Planning Areas app. With SAP IBP 2205, the Display as Percentage setting is available as a key figure property, which you can select when setting up a formatting rule for the Excel add-in.
SAP IBP has extended its stat forecasting capability to add any forecasting algorithm that is present in 3rd party tools, such as RStudio or Visual Studio. In this case, the stat forecast execution will be outside of SAP IBP. The external system gathers the required input/s from the SAP IBP, calculates the stat forecast, and sends back the output/s to SAP IBP. There it is leveraged in the same way as the forecasts calculated by internal algorithms. Users can add one or more external algorithms to a forecast model. This is available in the Manage Forecast model app, and this can be utilized in the same way as the other forecasting models provided the necessary integration is in place.
In addition to the classical Croston method for handling intermittent data, SAP IBP has now introduced the Croston TSB model which uses separate coefficients for smoothing the demand and probability of demand in each period.
With the latest version of SAP IBP, it is now possible to create a maximum of 100 drivers in a single go.
With the 2205 version of SAP IBP, the Shelf-life planning area (SAP 4S) now supports Minimum Transport Receipts and Minimum Transport Supply key figures. In the earlier version, these key figures didn’t have a SHELFLIFEID attribute in the base planning level. Now with the latest version, this attribute is added to the base planning level of these key figures. This allows you to plan minimum transport values for a location product while also considering shelf life.
With the new version of SAP IBP 2205, a new application job template has been introduced in order-based planning which will delete all stock data in the past, up to the offset horizon, if the stock is 0.
SAP has taken RTI as the tool for Order-based planning. With the latest version, we can add custom attributes to master data integrated from the SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA system into SAP IBP Order-based planning with flexible data. A new app called Custom Fields can be used to create your fields, which can be mapped to attributes in master data types integrated into order-based planning using RTI.