Transform your organization with SAP Integrated Business Planning

In the fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape, organizations face a multitude of challenges, including fluctuating demand, intricate and vulnerable supply chains, shifting regulatory frameworks, data discrepancies, and insufficient operational visibility. These issues can significantly hinder effective decision-making and the ability to swiftly adapt to market changes and meet consumer expectations.

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP): A transformative digital solution

With advanced capabilities in demand forecasting, real-time data processing, and collaborative sales and operations planning, SAP IBP empowers organizations to proactively and swiftly navigate complex challenges.

As a wide-ranging digital solution, SAP IBP offers the following potential benefits:

Real-time data processing: Operating on a cloud platform integrated with your ERP, SAP IBP enables real-time data processing, facilitating swift and informed decision-making.
Flexibility and scalability: SAP IBP allows organizations to quickly adapt to changing market dynamics and scale operations without incurring substantial IT overhead.
Predictive analytics: Leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning models, SAP IBP enhances trend prediction and can help improve planning accuracy.
Enhanced collaboration: Equipped with built-in communication and collaboration tools, SAP IBP streamlines end-to-end sales and operations planning across various business units.

IBP modules for broader impact

SAP IBP contains multiple modules designed to address and enhance specific aspects of supply chain planning. The IBP modules work together cohesively across the supply chain.

Our approach

KPMG professionals take a holistic view of the positive impacts SAP technology can have on your business and then work with you to identify the precise SAP implementation that can work best for your organization.

KPMG consultants use the KPMG Powered Enterprise methodology to make sure that you are not building a standalone silo, and to embed powerful supply chain planning tools into your existing supply chain processes to help you reap maximum benefits rapidly.

While we leverage IBP modules, we can also integrate them with other SAP products, leading to a more enhanced, data-driven, and strategically aligned supply chain management process to help your organization realize a competitive advantage.

By integrating other SAP solutions with IBP, KPMG can bring access to the latest features and functionalities across the SAP ecosystem. KPMG firms can provide a unified platform that enhances broader supply chain visibility and decision-making, helping your business remain competitive in your respective market.

AI for intelligent business

SAP IBP leverages both embedded and SAP BTP-enabled custom AI in several impactful ways to enhance planning processes and decision-making across various business functions. This includes helping to improve demand forecasting, optimization of inventory, managing supply chain risks, enabling scenario planning, automating processes, enhancing collaboration, providing personalized insights, and facilitating continuous learning.

These AI-driven features contribute to increased efficiency, accuracy, and agility within organizations' planning processes.

Service areas

Digital transformation experience and knowledge

With your unique business in mind, KPMG professionals focus on generating consistent value throughout your organization's operational core and across various business functions. We start by gaining a deep understanding of your business to lay important groundwork for informed strategies and intelligent system designs, as well as tailored services across your value chain. KPMG professionals also build in resilience, regulatory compliance and security, while positioning you to leverage the latest in SAP IBP cloud capabilities, data and AI.

Critical change management

Transforming your business necessitates change. That’s why KPMG professionals aim to go beyond the role of technology implementation adviser to also help advise on critical change management. We help undertake stakeholder engagement and help design the vision; reengineer processes and deliver technology training; build and deliver targeted communications for users across business departments to encourage technological fluency; and help end users understand, adopt and execute new ways of working.

How KPMG can help

KPMG’s member firm network of 7,000+ SAP-certified consultants design and implement SAP transformations globally across the full scope of SAP products.

KPMG Powered Enterprise enabled by SAP is rooted in KPMG professionals’ approach to SAP technology solution implementations. With a business-led, functional transformation approach, we leverage the KPMG Powered Enterprise methodology to help achieve successful transformations by implementing standardized, scalable digital solutions that help bridge existing gaps within an organization. Let’s get started today.