SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) leverages its core modules to create a comprehensive parts planning process. This cycle begins with Demand Planning (C) to forecast the need for spare parts, which is often intermittent and difficult to predict. Next, Inventory Optimization (A) is used to determine the optimal stock levels for thousands of parts across multiple locations (multi-echelon), balancing high service levels against inventory holding costs. Finally, Supply Planning (D) generates a time-phased plan for procuring or distributing the parts to meet the forecasted demand and satisfy the optimized inventory targets. These three processes form the end-to-end planning foundation for MRO within SAP IBP.

B. Demand Driven Replenishment: While DDMRP is an available module in SAP IBP applicable to MRO, the other three options represent the more foundational and universally applied end-to-end planning processes for MRO parts management.

E. SAP Intelligent Asset Management: This is a separate SAP solution suite focused on asset strategy, monitoring, and maintenance execution. It integrates with SAP IBP but is not a planning process included within SAP IBP itself.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain

"Spare Parts Planning": The documentation outlines the use of SAP IBP for spare parts

stating

"You can use the applications of SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) to create a forecast for spare parts

to optimize the inventory for these parts

and to create a supply plan for them." This directly corresponds to Demand Planning

Inventory Optimization

and Supply Planning.

2. SAP Solution Brief

"Plan for Service Parts and MRO with SAP Integrated Business Planning": This document details the solution's capabilities

highlighting the ability to "Improve forecast accuracy for lumpy demand

" "Optimize inventory targets across the end-to-end network

" and "Develop a consensus supply plan." These capabilities are delivered by the Demand Planning

Inventory Optimization

and Supply Planning modules respectively.

3. SAP Learning Hub

Course IBP100 - SAP IBP – Overview: The course structure presents the core applications of SAP IBP

including SAP IBP for demand

SAP IBP for inventory

and SAP IBP for response and supply. These are the primary applications leveraged for the MRO planning use case.