After a recent test drive of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Response and Supply platform at SAP Waldorf, I wanted to provide a quick insight into the latest module of SAP IBP. Since its inception over two years ago, Response and Supply has made positive strides in building several critical features and functionalities. Further, its development road map looks exciting and the built-in integration with an ERP Add-on should ease the project implementation effort and timelines compared to competition.
After the biggest attendance at Sapphire to date, you can clearly see a very new era for SAP and enterprise software. Younger faces, more t-shirts, a cooler concert and lots of talk about ‘Intelligent Enterprise’. Focus has certainly shifted from the ‘Digital Core’ to art of the possible in the new era of cloud and digital transformation. Has the message changed or is it just refined?
More often than not, our client facing work is done in their corporate offices far away from the factories and warehouses where the actual supply chain lives. While standing in front of a conference room white board is like a second home to us, we all get an extra spark when we can be physically on the line or in the distribution center watching product flow.
