SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain

SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain is a planning application, that combines supply chain monitoring, sales and operations planning, demand management, inventory planning, and supply planning into a comprehensive solution, which also supports the integration of data from external systems (for example, SAP ERP or SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization).

The recommended integration solution between SAP IBP and on-premise systems is SAP Cloud Integration for data services.

Connect SAP IBP

Perform the step described on the page below to connect SAP IBP to SAP Focused Run:

Setup SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain

Advanced Integration Monitoring Setup

Available Monitoring Categories

For SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain the following monitoring category ist available:

SAP Integrated Business Planning: Collects exceptions in SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain

For monitoring of errors and warning happening during the integration on the on-premise side, please use:

ABAP Application Log on the ABAP on-premise system.

Available Filter Options

SAP Integrated Business Planning

For SAP Integrated Business Planning you can either collect all exceptions or you can restrict the exceptions by the following parameters:

Area: Log Area (see information below)
Free Text: Message Text
Severity: Error or Warning
SubArea: Log Sub Area
User: User creating the log entry
Message Id: Message Class
Message No: Message Number

IBP Log Area

To find out which log area and sub-area to use for the filter, you can check the available logs in your IBP tenant.

You need a user with the authorizations to see the "General Planner" group in the IBP Launchpad.

Go to 'General Planner' → 'Application Logs'
Select the log you want to monitor / alert on
The area and sub-area are visible in the top on the log screen
Make sure to use the technical names for area and sub-area!

SAP IBP integration via SAP CI-SDI writes errors in the ABAP Application Log. To use the monitoring category ABAP Application Log on the on-premise system you have to provide the object and the sub-object. Use the following filter values:

Object: /IBP/ECC_INT (Core Interface Application Log Object)
Sub-Object: Choose a sub-object from the possible sub-objects (check transaction SLG1 in your on-premise system)

Available Metrics

For SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain the following metrics are collected:

SAP Integrated Business Planning

SAP Integrated Business Planning exceptions: Indicates that new exceptions were collected during the last data collection interval

Error for the replication on the on-premise systems can be collected with the metric 'ABAP Application Log exceptions' for 'ABAP Application Log'.

Integration Scenario

For SAP IBP the following integration scenarios are available. The different scenarios contain the following exceptions and point-to-point connections:

Integrating ABAP backend with SAP IBP mediated via SAP Cloud Integration for data services (CI-DS): 2, 3
Integrating ABAP backend with SAP IBP mediated via SAP Cloud Integration with Smart Data Integration (CI-SDI): 1, 3

	Scenario Component	Monitored Content	Monitoring Category
1	Systems: ABAP on-premise system	Logs written in the ABAP Application Log for the integration via SAP Smart Data Integration	ABAP Application Log
2	Cloud Services: SAP Cloud Integration for data services	Exceptions in SAP Cloud Integration for data services	SAP Integration Suite for data services
3	Cloud Services: SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain	Exceptions in SAP IBP for Supply Chain	SAP Integrated Business Planning