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Top 5 New Features of SAP IBP 1908
With the latest release of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) 1908, it’s time once again for a quarterly peek behind the curtain of IBP. I’ve decided to highlight some innovations and enhancements that I found particularly interesting. In addition to those highlighted below, there
Why I Turned Down the Big Companies to Intern with a Small Business
Going through the job search process while having to juggle the stressors of college life is not an easy task. To make it even worse, you are surrounded by people who have a similar educational background as you, and the differentiators begin to fade.
Simplify Your Demand Planning Process with Pyramid Forecasting in SAP IBP
Demand planning can be a challenging process for companies with complex product hierarchies that have numerous product groups, product families, and stock keeping units. To further complicate the issue, demand planning often involves forecasting for different customer channels and individual customers within those channels.
The Power of Optimizer Constraints in SAP IBP
Watch: SCM Connections’ Five Minute Feature video on Optimizer Constraints The optimizer in SAP IBP can be a very powerful tool for supply planning, but it’s easy to get frustrated with it at first. For one, the optimizer is rigid in terms of
The Waiting Game: My Experience with the College Internship Recruiting Process
The mention of the word ‘recruiting’ evokes a wide range of emotions for the prospective intern or job seeker. It is an exciting time- you are on the brink of the beginning of your career and the possibilities seem endless. However, it is also
How to Upgrade the Planning Area Configuration in SAP IBP 1905
The 1905 release of SAP IBP has some amazing new features such as Driver-Based Planning and DDMRP (you can see Jim Kehler’s full list of favorites here). We always hope these updates come in as smoothly as possible, but sometimes things don’t always go
