Since its launch SAP is very aggressively updating the IBP modules and has released numerous modification. The latest one is 1902 (Feb 2019), with the following main features:
- Updated — IBP Excel Add-In 1902.2.0:
- Now user can view a list of his most commonly used attributes & key figures in most working folders, like “Edit Planning View” or “Quick Edit Planning View” etc.
- Can copy Planning Notes between Versions
- When running the Copy and Disaggregate Key Figure operator within a single planning area, you can now select a combination of a scenario and version
- When scheduling the Copy Operator or the Copy and Disaggregate Key Figure Operator job in the IBP Excel add-in, you can now change the period selection
- Web-Based Planning
- Fiori app to analyze and change planning data in IBP
- Analytics and Exception Management
- The Monitor Custom Alerts app has been redesigned to improve usability and enable more features
- Alerts can be defined based on a version or a version/scenario
- The rules can now specify whether a certain key figure is not null and consider only those values
- There is an option whether you want to expose the parameters to the user or you want the system to set them up with default values
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Now you can Purge all processes that are older than the given number of days for all or specified processes templates.
- You can Create Process Steps without Tasks
- Process Management Enhancements gives a Gantt Chart for Viewing Multiple Recurring Processes at a Glance
- Demand Planning
- Updates have been done in the areas of Time Series Analysis, Statistical Forecasting, of Product Lifecycle Management, Realignment, and Forecast Error Calculation
- Inventory Optimization
- Now you can define planning-horizon parameters (week basis) for inventory-optimization planning operators
- Fiori app updates:
- Rendering of the supply chain network
- Supply Chain Network Visualization
- Supply Planning
- You can now run forecast consumption without supply planning
- Enables you to define a second coverage time span in which to build up safety stock.
- New check for supply planning key figures
- Order-based Planning
- Offers more options for planning with buffers
- Enhanced Integration of SAP ECC, S/4HANA with IBP Using Add-On
- New Global Configuration app
- DSX – Built-in support in IBP using CoPilot:
- Search IBP documentation
- Create a customer incident with contextual data automatically added*
- Submit an improvement/feature request on the SAP Customer Influence Portal
- Manage S-users
For more details please check the following 2 documents:
https://d.dam.sap.com/a/cUrkP71/IBP1902_Webinar_whats_new_final.pdf