Supply Chain Explorer for SAP IBP
Integrated in 7 days
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- Increased Efficiency
Supply Chain Explorer streamlines processes, reduces errors, and accelerates workflows to improve overall efficiency.
- Faster Decision-Making
With real-time data and analytics, Supply Chain Explorer enables quicker, more informed decision-making across your supply chain.
- Reduced Costs
Supply Chain Explorer cuts costs by improving inventory management, reducing waste, and optimizing resource allocation.
About Supply Chain Explorer
Supply Chain Explorer is an advanced extension of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), designed to enhance visibility and streamline operations across multi-level supply chain networks. By integrating seamlessly with SAP IBP, our solution empowers businesses to optimize their decision-making processes for end-to-end supply chain management. Whether handling complex global logistics or local supply chains, Supply Chain Explorer ensures smoother, more efficient operations at every step.
The user-friendly interface enables teams to effectively control their supply chain, ensuring smoother coordination and quicker response times. As your business grows, Supply Chain Explorer scales with you, providing consistent value and adaptability in managing complex, multi-tiered supply chains.
Modules
Bottleneck Capacity View
- Identify capacity limits for products and components
- Multi-level, cross-company visibility
- Drill down into supply and usage details
- Navigate in IBP Planner Workspace or Excel Add-On
Bottleneck Analysis provides a multi-level, cross-company analysis of bottleneck capacities for finished products and their components. It offers a holistic perspective on capacity constraints throughout the supply chain, enabling planners to identify and address potential production bottlenecks efficiently.
Demand Deviations
- Visualize supply shortages for products and components
- Multi-level, cross-company insights
- Drill into cumulative shortage data
- Analyze via IBP Planner Workspace or Excel Add-On
Deviation Analysis for Supply Shortages view highlights unconstrained cumulative supply shortages for finished products and their components across multiple levels and companies. It enables planners to compare unconstrained and constrained demand, identifying critical gaps in supply planning.
Supply Usage Analysis
- Analyze component usage by products
- View data at any level, across companies
- Drill into detailed usage data
- Interactively analyze with IBP Analytic Story
The Supply Usage Analysis provides a detailed, multi-level, cross-company analysis of how components are utilized by finished products. It allows planners to understand dependencies and relationships between components and finished goods at any level.
Integration
IBP System Configuration
We configure SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to align with your unique business processes and objectives. This step involves setting up your system for optimized demand planning, inventory management, and sales forecasting, ensuring seamless data flow and integration across your supply chain. By customizing IBP to fit your needs, we enable greater visibility and control over your operations.
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CI/DS Integration Task Configuration
We set up the CI/DS (Cloud Integration for Data Services) tasks, allowing for smooth integration and data synchronization across your systems. This step ensures that your data pipelines are streamlined, making it easier to move and manage supply chain data in real-time. With robust data integration, we ensure consistency and accuracy, enhancing decision-making capabilities and operational agility.
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Executing Tests and Providing Training
Once the system is configured, we conduct comprehensive testing to ensure everything functions as it should, from data flows to system integrations. After validation, we provide hands-on training to your team, equipping them with the knowledge they need to leverage Supply Chain Explorer effectively. Our training ensures your team is confident in using the system to improve supply chain planning and execution.
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FAQ
1. What is Supply Chain Explorer?
Supply Chain Explorer is an SAP IBP extension that provides full multi-level visibility of your supply network, helping planners detect bottlenecks, analyze dependencies, and improve decision-making.
2. How does it integrate with SAP IBP?
It is fully embedded within SAP IBP, no external tools, interfaces, or additional data pipelines are required.
3. How long does implementation take?
Supply Chain Explorer is operational in 7 days, leveraging your existing SAP IBP master data and structures.
4. Who is it designed for?
It’s built for enterprises running SAP IBP that need clearer visibility across multi-tier production, distribution, and component networks.
5. What problems does Supply Chain Explorer solve?
It eliminates network blind spots, reduces manual data collection, accelerates bottleneck detection, and simplifies multi-level dependency analysis.