SAP Integrated Business Planning Features

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Maintain a visual on product stock levels throughout your facilities with flexible inventory dashboards.

View the history of individual items and compare the sales performance of new to old stock in order to inform purchasing decisions.

Set low stock thresholds and receive automatic alerts when stock decreases to that level.

Automatically adjust inventory for product bundles, kit orders, and product variations within the system.

Use barcode or radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology with specialized readers or mobile applications to track inventory assets throughout warehouse facilities.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and payment gateways with the system to link inventory records between across platforms.

Track inventory costs and costs of goods sold (COGS) with accounting software integrations.

Transfer large volumes of inventory data records into and out of the system with built-in import / export tools.

A collection of customer information such as contact details, demographics, previous interactions, etc.

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Record of all transactions such as purchases, deposits, withdrawals and transfers within a specific period

Track actual spending to ensure it's in line with the planned budget

Process to track, record, and analyze expenses that occurred over the entire duration of a given project

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Forecast customer demand using historical insights and simulations

Access previous interactions or concerns to maintain customer relationships

Track and assign specific serial numbers to products

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Forecast customer demand using historical insights and simulations

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Forecast customer demand using historical insights and simulations

Monitors and tracks the physical status of goods and materials

Aggregates and centralizes data regarding product movement, materials management, and financial information

Generates reports that identify KPIs and other relevant metrics

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Receive data and information in real time

Provides users with automated reports and dashboards on all demand plans, and forecast KPIs

Allows users to perform ABC and XYZ analyses and assess forecastability with rules adjustable by business users.

Allows users to forecast the demand impact of events such as new product launches product up-gradation, pricing, rebates, marketing activities, product discontinuation

Allows users to create simulation scenarios with factors such as changed pricing

Allows users to pull historical data in order to more accurately predict future demand

Analyze the current state of sales data to accurately understand trends and forecast future sales numbers.

Provides comprehensive visibility and oversight into supply chain operations

Provides inventory scheduling and inventory management functionalities

Automates the tracking and recording of activities within the entire supply chain lifecycle

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Organize and manage all processes/procedures involved in purchasing goods and/or services

Manage all supplier data and operations

Track and manage inventory levels to maintain proper supply

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Create, send, and track purchase orders and their statuses

Plan, schedule, and execute organization's accounts and assets to ensure compliance with policies and laws

Captures invoice data and maintains comprehensive records for auditing and reporting purposes

Manage inventory, communication, marketing, orders & more across warehouses, stores and online channels

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Manage user accounts, profiles, roles, permissions, and other details across applications, devices or networks

Management of the flow of things between point of origin and point of consumption.

Track and facilitate returns of products sold

Manage and track customer orders for goods, investments, or any other purchases

Manage and track operations and inventory within warehouses

Negotiate best prices and choose the right vendor for various purchases

Management of inbound and outbound shipments in the context of international trade

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

Manage and track orders being shipped to customers

Organize and track the physical movement of goods from one location to another

Track products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Optimize inventory to improve fulfillment and increase customer satisfaction.

Manage multiple delivery modes such as truckload, less than truckload, rail, parcel, and ocean.

Identify the financial impact of deliveries based on costs and revenues.

Provide performance metrics such as delivery performance, on-time arrival performance, and compliance.

Use supply chain data to identify trends and their impact on performance.

Allows users to create warehouse-to-warehouse transfers knowing the exact stock levels for both locations when sending and receiving

Allows users to sync inventory across multiple stores, marketplaces, and warehouses

Allows users to connect sales channels to specific warehouses.

Allows users to manage all thier clients on one system

Allows users to connect marketplaces for each client

Allows inventory tracking for specific customer required attributes such as lot, serial, style/color/size

Track and facilitate returns of products sold

Manage and track customer orders for goods, investments, or any other purchases

Manage and track orders being shipped to customers

Track products that are for sale at a reduced price or part of coupon promotions

Track collected or paid charges for services performed or access granted

Manage goods purchased or received from third-party suppliers/consignors

Purchasing method in which a consumer places a deposit on an item for later pick-up when they come back and pay the balance

Reward loyal customers with gift cards which they can redeem for special offers and loyalty bonus

Software specialized for manufacturers to track work orders, bills of materials, and manufacture orders to help streamline operations

Manage inventory, communication, marketing, orders & more across warehouses, stores and online channels

Has a built-in eCommerce system or integrates with third-party systems to manage online sale of products

Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price

Tracking, organizing, and controlling retail inventory throughout the supply chain and sales process

Purchase and replenish product stock based on inventory levels and needs

Manage and track operations and inventory within warehouses

Create, send, and track purchase orders and their statuses

Print and scan barcode or labels

Manage and control operations that take place on the shop floor or factory floor

Manage all supplier data and operations

Track and manage inventory levels to maintain proper supply

Collect, organize, and track inventory/product data including item numbers, descriptions, etc.

Tool used to determine accurate pricing and product eligibility for borrowers

Captures invoice data and maintains comprehensive records for auditing and reporting purposes

An order generated by a seller to a customer, containing details about products or services

Real-time inventory tracking. Maintains accurate "On Hand" information by matching reserved inventory requested on purchase and sales orders.

Ability to establish costing methods such as Average, LIFO, FIFO, and Specific Unit.

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and accounting with the system to link inventory records across platforms.

Integration with Internet of Things devices to automate real-time tracking, data collection and other processes

Vendor takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material on behalf of the buyer

Allows users to integrate their demand planning software with ERP and SCM software

Allows multiple users to simultaneously input thier data online, offline or remotely

Allows multiple stakeholders into planning data for increased visibility

Allows users to have multi-tier visibility into current stock and purchase orders

Integrate with existing ERP systems

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Allows users to ensure production capacity meets demand

Allows users to conduct demand planning for seasonal and intermittent demand

Allows users to tailor demand planning by business function including sales and marketing

Allows users to customize demand planning that take all data on particular goals into consideration.

The system automatically accounts for data related to consumer demand and any planned network changes.

Allows users to automate routine steps for demand planning or data preparation

Develop potential scenarios to identify risks and opportunities

At a high level, visualize a preferred outcome, define goals and identify specific steps to achieve them

Ability to track inbound products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Ability to track and search for the location of shipments by PO or SKU

Ability to use historical tracking data and machine learning in order to accurately predict ETAs

Ability to establish geofences to determine precise and accurate arrivals

Access up to date rates from carriers, including spot market

Ability to request a bid from multiple carriers and directly book shipments

Ability to manage and automate invoices

Ability to utilize paperless documents to automate reconciliation process including bills of lading, proofs of delivery, and weight certificates

Ability to access full coverage of required geographies

Ability to efficiently onboard new carriers during network implementation

Ability to access data enrichment, sources, & normalization to serve up actionable and clean data

Provide support for multiple languages

Provide rule-based notifications to empower real-time collaboration at key milestones and quickly resolve issues.

Import and export data to and from software applications

Print paychecks issued to confirm payment of wages or salary

Track factors that affect pricing and adjust prices accordingly to increase sales

Includes functionalities for creating custom eCommerce websites

Customize data fields to support various needs and use cases

Organize and group data or items based on various criteria

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Maintain and control the stock level of inventory

Checkout of online store

Alter the layout and content of reports

Reports specific to sales analysis for trends and strategies

Accept and process credit card transactions

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Manage and support multiple locations

Access the system via a mobile application

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Data is backed up automatically to prevent data loss

Process of printing custom labels through various methods.

Accept and process customer payments for products or services using hardware and software

Manage and handle various international currencies

Online portal through which end users can access the system, manage tasks, or obtain information

Send / receive, process, and execute orders

Workflows that help acquire inventory, issue purchase orders and receive and store items in required quantity

Internal and external product tracking codes

Create, manage, and send invoices or bills to customers

Track the status of assets and whether they're checked in or out

Scan barcodes to ensure accurate pricing and label tracking

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Create backups and provide methods to recover deleted/lost data

Synchronizing data between two or more devices/systems and automatically updating changes to maintain consistency

Ability to link barcodes or serial numbers with specific items for identification

Group and package individual but related items as one package set

Access software remotely via mobile devices

Predict future data based on historical data sets

Monitor product stock levels

Cross-checking financial records with physical inventory counts and records

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Access to a library of manufacturing parts, models, and specs

Automate order processes to improve operational efficiency in fulfillment, shipping, and more

Track stock count levels to manage product reordering

Create custom predefined rules for prices for products and services

Interact with data visualization elements, such as charts and graphs, to drill down into data

Create, send, and track purchase orders and their statuses

Alter the layout and content of reports

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Track and manage inventory levels to maintain proper supply

Forecast customer demand using historical insights and simulations

Analyze and gain insights into data in real-time

Import and export data to and from software applications

Manage the buying, selling, and holding of stocks

Manage the planning and execution of supply chain activities

Receive data and information in real time

Financial management for all distribution-related activities, including inventory, warehouse, purchasing, sales, etc.

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Tracking, organizing, and controlling retail inventory throughout the supply chain and sales process

Method used in decision-making that allows businesses to input variables to forecast potential outcomes or possibilities

Design, communicate, and distribute incentives to perform a specific action

Process to track, record, and analyze expenses that occurred over the entire duration of a given project

Manage inventory, communication, marketing, orders & more across warehouses, stores and online channels

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Synchronizing data between two or more devices/systems and automatically updating changes to maintain consistency

Graphical representation of data

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

Manage and support multiple locations

Manage and track operations and inventory within warehouses

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Track stock count levels to manage product reordering

A collection of customer information such as contact details, demographics, previous interactions, etc.

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Scan barcodes to ensure accurate pricing and label tracking

Manage the process of receiving, preparing, and delivering orders for goods/products

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Workflows that help acquire inventory, issue purchase orders and receive and store items in required quantity

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Material list of manufacturing parts and associated costs

Built-in accounting to manage ledger, accounts payable/receivable, financial reports, etc.

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Transfer of data from one computer system to another

Maintain and control the stock level of inventory

Manage and support multiple locations

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Alter the layout and content of reports

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Generate quotes or estimates for customers

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.