Successful SAP IBP PoC implementation at Mattoni
Optimizing of client’s supply chain management through SAP Integrated Business Planning
Goals
SAP Integrated Business Planning PoC implemented for Mattoni 1873 group, the leading producer of soft drinks in central Europe, was about to show the best practices in S&OP processes using Mattoni’s own data, gain comprehensive insights into the capabilities of the solution, and identify any potential gaps before committing to a full-scale implementation.
Solution
To address this critical need, Mattoni has partnered with Concircle to discover the SAP Integrated Business Planning service package. Our company was pleased to provide a low-risk and low-effort opportunity to explore the capabilities of the system.
The IBP package offered included the setup of the IBP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) module, complete with relevant testing data.
Challenge
Mattoni operates across five countries with 11 production plants and faces the ongoing challenge of optimizing their supply chain to ensure transparency and efficiency in all departments involved.
Benefits
The PoC process took 6 weeks including user training series, where we actively worked with the users on creating scenarios and simulation of changes, checking on how aggregation and disaggregation functionality work when the forecast is created on a monthly level and the demand planner makes changes on a weekly level, how the changes can be tracked and the figures can be frozen for editing, much effort was done on template personalization that can be a great help for planners and reviewers, talked about copying of history from phase-out products to new skus in order to forecast them properly, checked how we can plan in house production in purchased goods, spend some time on production planning features, safety stock, days of coverage, aggregation to campaigns and created alerts for example to track gaps between forecast figures and actuals.
The success of this endeavor can be attributed to the collaborative efforts and active engagement of Mattoni’s business users. By bridging the gap between technical capabilities and business goals, we have forged a productive partnership, resulting in clear expectations and practical utilization of the SAP IBP system with real data.
