As SAP APO – the former flagship solution for supply chain planning – approaches its end of life, organizations must begin planning the path forward. SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) has long been positioned as APO’s successor. In this session, we will explore how and why SAP IBP represents a step change in capability and a logical next step for existing SAP APO customers.
We will examine the strategic implications of this transition, compare reference architectures, and highlight the opportunities SAP IBP offers to modernize supply chain planning in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
Register.
Key takeaways.
- How the current SAP reference architecture for supply chain planning compares to SAP APO
- Strategic considerations existing SAP APO customers should be aware of
- Key topics and decision points when transitioning from SAP APO to SAP IBP
Agenda.
- SAP APO sunset: what it means and why it matters
- A retrospective on SAP APO
- Walkthrough of SAP’s current supply chain planning reference architectures
- Contemporary supply chain trends and challenges
- Recommended next steps
Speaker.
Dr. Russell Sadd
Russell is a partner at Westernacher Consulting and a highly experienced solution architect for SAP-based planning, forecasting and analytics solutions with almost two and a half decades of major project implementations behind him. He considers himself a planning generalist covering supply chain, financial, retail and personnel planning solutions.
Planning Practice Director UKI, Westernacher Consulting
