Thursday, January 6, 2022

Is IBP ready for Climate Change?

Is IBP ready for Climate Change? 

Here we go, now you can pull greenhouse gas emission data into IBP for further analysis.



SAP Product Footprint Management – short SAP PFM – is a native SAP Cloud solution designed for manufacturing and product-centric companies. It calculates their product footprints periodically and at scale.

SAP S/4HANA provides SAP PFM with the master data and transactional data that are used as the basis for calculating the footprint. The footprint information per unit is then transferred back to SAP S/4HANA. SAP S/4HANA uses this information for various purposes, for example, for sourcing decisions, and makes this information available to SAP Integrated Business Planning. In SAP IBP, the supply chain planner gets a good overview of the greenhouse gas emissions in the supply chain based on the supply plan for the next 12 months. Planners can dive deeper into the details and try to resolve critical situations and alerts.



Source: SAP


Monday, January 3, 2022

SAP IBP Certificate Code 2111 Version

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP IBP for Supply Chain (2111) - code: C_IBP_2111.


Description

The "SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP IBP for Supply Chain (2111)" certification exam verifies that the candidate possesses the basic knowledge in the area of the SAP supply chain planning. This certificate proves that the candidate has a basic overall understanding within this consultant profile of the industry solutions, and can implement this knowledge practically in projects under guidance of an experienced consultant. It is recommended as an entry-level qualification to allow consultants to get acquainted with the fundamentals of SAP Integrated Business Planning. Please note that this 2111 version of the exam takes part in the Stay Current with SAP Global Certification program. Once you pass this version of the exam, make sure that you start your stay current process. You will be required to take the quarterly stay current assessment for all subsequent SAP IBP releases via the SAP Learning Hub starting with the 2202 release to maintain your SAP IBP consultant certification status and badge. In order to participate in the stay current program and access the stay current enablement and assessment, you will need at minimum an SAP Learning Hub, edition for IoT and Digital Supply Chain subscription. (https://training.sap.com/learninghub)

Notes

To ensure success, SAP recommends combining education courses and hands-on experience to prepare for your certification exam as questions will test your ability to apply the knowledge you have gained in training.

You are not allowed to use any reference materials during the certification test (no access to online documentation or to any SAP system).

Topic Areas

Please see below the list of topics that may be covered within this certification and the courses that cover them. Its accuracy does not constitute a legitimate claim; SAP reserves the right to update the exam content (topics, items, weighting) at any time.


Supply and Response> 12%

Configure supply planning, run various solvers to generate planning results


IBP100 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP110 (SAP LH content)

IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP700 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


General Configuration of a Planning Area> 12%

Display, create, copy, edit, check, and activate a planning area.


IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Key Figures & Attributes> 12%

Create and use key figures and attributes.


IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP300 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Planning Operators & Application Jobs> 12%

Use Planning Operators.


IBP300 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


User Interface> 12%

Use the Fiori Launchpad to customize the UI, work with Excel UI


IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Demand Planning8% - 12%

Create statistical forecast using historical data with basic methods.


IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP600 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


S&OP Review< 8%

Describe how IBP extends the logic of S&OP in the network using advanced demand and supply planning integrated with financial plans.


IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Inventory< 8%

Optimize inventory in the supply chain utilizing algorithms that derive inventory targets.


IBP100 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Solution Architecture< 8%

Describe the benefits of implementing SAP's Integrated Business Planning solution.


IBP100 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP300 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Analytics and Reporting< 8%

Define and view information with user-defined charts and dashboards.


IBP200 (SAP IBP OD 2111)

IBP300 (SAP IBP OD 2111)


Source: training.sap.com

Monday, December 13, 2021

IBP Order Based Planning Integration Architecture for Real Time Integration (RTI)

 Update SAP IBP 2111.
























Real-Time Integration of master and transactional data • 
Initial and delta load • 
Push from source system to target system by direct data capturing in ECC and SAP S/4HANA • 

Master data: • Location • Product • Resource • PDS • Transportation Lane • 

Transactional data: • Stock • Planned Order / Production Order • Purchase Requisition / PO / STR / STO / Inbound Delivery • Sales Order / Outbound Delivery • 

Outbound integration (only transactional data): • Planned Orders, STRs, Purchase Requisitions, and Sales order confirmations

Source: SAP

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

IBP Heuristics with Shelf Life Planning Mode

 IBP Heuristics with Shelf Life Planning Mode Do Not Support below scenarios:

• Receipts balancing

• Supply propagation

• Optimizer-only features

• Lot-Size procedure:3 - Production cycle lot size,4- Static periods of supply based on average demand and 5 - Dynamic periods of supply with safety stock

• All types of calendars (for example, inbound,trans1portation, and production calendars)

•  Supply on1 a Batch ID level. including batch IDs and batch numbers.Quantities of batches with the same remaining shelf life are aggregated (per planning period).There is no pegging between batches and customer or net demands.

• Location product substitution

• Increased time ac-curacy


Usage case - Replan for Wastage Quantities




Source: SAP.com

Short-team Mid-term and Long-term Planning Horizon and Processes

 

Operational Response level VS Operational Supply level VS Strategic Tactical Level Planning

Source: SAP.com


Monday, December 6, 2021

Data Integration S4, ECC to IBP, Extractors

Extractors are developed in each SP of the add-on. The extractors that are available as of SAP S/4HANA, supply chain integration add-on for SAP Integrated Business Planning Version 1.0 SP9 and SAP ERP, supply chain integration add-on for SAP Integrated Business Planning 1.1 SP12 are as follows.


Location - /IBP/LOCATION_ATTR


Product - /IBP/PRODUCT_ATTR or /IBP/PRODUCT_TEXT


Product UOM - /IBP/PRODUCT_UOM_ATTR


Resource - /IBP/RESOURCE_ATTR or /IBP/RESOURCE_TEXT


Location Product - /IBP/LOCATIONPRODUCT_ATTR


Resource Location - /IBP/RESOURCELOCATION_ATTR


Source Production - /IBP/SOURCEPRODUCTION_ATTR


Production Source Item - /IBP/PRODUCTIONSOURCEITEM_ATTR


Source Customer - /IBP/SOURCECUSTOMER_CI_ATTR (This is a BAdi example implementation to showcase the extension concept for creating your own extractors)


Unit of Measure - /IBP/UNIT_OF_MEASURE_ATTR or /IBP/UNIT_OF_MEASURE_TEXT


·     Source Location - /IBP/SOURCELOCATION_ATTR


·     Currency - /IBP/CURRENCY_TEXT OR /IBP/CURRENCY_ATTR (template delivered only for /IBP/CURRENCY_TEXT)


·     Exchange rates - /IBP/EXCHANGE_RATES_ATTR (integrated as Attribute as KF)


·     Production Resource - /IBP/PRODUCTIONRESOURCE_ATTR


Key figures are delivered using the following extractors:


Capacity Supply - /IBP/CAPASUPPLY_KF

Only for this extractor, a template is delivered.


Order Key figures - /IBP/ORDER_KF


Inventory Key figures - /IBP/STOCK_KF


Exchange rates - /IBP/EXCHANGE_RATES_KF


Enhancement spot to be used for the extensions: /IBP/ES_ETS_SELECTION


Thursday, September 9, 2021

IBP Issues and Errors

Issue: IBP Snapshot job fails. 

Details: sql syntax error: "SAPHANADB"."/IBP/CL_OPERATOR_SNAPSHOT=>CALCULATE_NUMBER_OF_TS_DATA": line 120 col 7 (at pos 5745): incorrect syntax near "placeholder": line 1 col 52 (at pos 52)

Resolution: Apply a technical global parameter to avoid QTM processing for SNAPSHOT operator.

Create a Parameter named: DONT_USE_QTM, and value was set to X in Parameter Group: SNAPSHOT.
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