SAP Supply Chain

SAP IBP enables companies to leverage its in-memory capability in the cloud to rapidly address end-to-end supply chain planning and execution and provides industry leading capability in sales and operations planning (S&OP), forecasting and demand planning, inventory optimization, supply optimization, and analytics and insights.

Since the launch of SAP IBP in 2014, our leadership and team at CloudPaths has helped over 40 different IBP customers transform their supply chains and enable the journey to the cloud.

Whether you are looking at SAP IBP for the first time, considering migrating from SAP APO, another supply chain planning application, or considering a move to S/4; our team has the expertise and experience to help you build a roadmap that addresses your needs. 

Benefits

IBP Platform Integration

SAP APO has a rich heritage as the legacy supply chain planning application with thousands of implementations.

At CloudPaths, our team has extensive APO and SAP ECC/ERP experience and expertise to guide you through an evaluation, implementation, or enhancement. In developing your supply chain roadmap, we also provide our opinion and perspective on where APO fits your business processes and in the context of SAP IBP and your journey to the cloud.

Benefits

Demand Planning (DP)

  •     Comprehensive Demand Forecasting
  •     Configurable planning books with macro functionality
  •     Collaborative demand planning, life-cycle, and promotions

Supply Network Planning (SNP)

  •     Manufacturing, distribution, purchasing, and transportation integration
  •     Constraint and penalty-based product flow planning across the entire supply
  •     Planning for different levels of detail including aggregated planning
  •     Heuristic, rule or optimization-based algorithm options
  •     Safety stock planning algorithms

Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS)(DP)

  •     Multi-level production planning and detailed scheduling
  •     Supports multiple manufacturing strategies; MTS, MTO, CTP and others
  •     Order pegging
  •     Choice of existing or custom heuristics

Global Available-to-Promise

  •     Global availability checks on defined documents within a defined scope
  •     Rules-based ATP using product or location substitution strategies
  •     Product allocation for controlling commitments to key customers
  •     Backorder processing
  •     Multi-level ATP for triggering BOM explosion and performing component checks

IBP Platform Integration

CPI-DS Key Integration Scenarios for IBP

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TESTIMONIALS

Don’t just take it from us – hear what our clients have to say

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Vijay Tripathi

VP & Financials Practice Lead

Strong Financial ERP functional leadership knowledge across industry verticals, with twenty years of consulting experience. Led, architected, and implemented large financial transformation initiatives. Expertise with Enterprise Cloud SaaS ERP (NetSuite) and EPM solutions. Expert at NetSuite driven financial transformations and thought leader and speaker at SuiteWorld on Advanced Revenue Management, and Project Management.

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Irene Jones

VP of Customer Success 

20+ years leading global consulting and delivery teams with experience in SAP for industries of consumer products, pharmaceuticals, life-sciences, telecommunications, high-tech, and mill products & mining.  Comprehensive guidance in providing solutions from strategy to winning technology implementations that transforms enterprises.  Holds a degree in Business Management and is PMP Certified.

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Tushar Bhalla

CTO

Chief Technology Officer with 17+ years in SAP Digital Supply Chain, including SAP IBP, APO, and Ariba. Led cross-functional teams and delivered results across 17 industries and 33 customers. Collaborated with SAP on co-development of SAP IBP solution. Strong understanding of technology landscape and ability to drive technology strategy and innovation. Passionate about driving change and innovation.

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KV Subramaniam

Founder & COO

30+ years of industry experience in HR & Operations. Worked for NIIT, Ramco, Accenture. Led varied business initiatives ground up including talent & Compensation management aligned with industry standards.

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Jeff Pigatto

VP & Customer 360 Practice Lead

Consulting leader with 25+ years of consulting 12 years in the Salesforce ecosystem delivering Sales, Service, Marketing, CPQ, and Industry Cloud solutions.  Experience in Financial Services, Communications, Media, Information Services, High Tech, Transportation and Logistics, and Healthcare with leading Global System integrators (GSIs), such as Anderson Consulting (Accenture), AT&T, Fujitsu, and Tata Consultancy Services.

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Saranya Vasanthakumar

Associate Director

10+ years of supply chain analyst and delivery lead experience with prior roles at Accenture, Argano, and Intrigo.  Driven project manager that focuses on effective customer communication throughout the entire process.

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Pratap Shinde

Director of Digital Supply Chain

15+ years in supply chain management with experience at Accenture, Intrigo and Infosys. Analytical leader of digital transformation roadmaps through implementation process for significant customer projects. IBP is his specialty.

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Sahil Bansal

Director for Canada

13+ years of demand and supply chain planning experience with previous roles at Deloitte, Intrigo and Fujitsu.  Collaborator across technical and business teams in conjunction with SAP.  Customer focused to ensure optimal implementations.

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Sameer Ranabhor

Founder & CEO

20 years of experience working for global systems integrators including DXC, Infosys, and Cap Gemini. A thought leader in delivering capabilities and competencies aligned to changing industry direction and evolving business models.

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Padman Ramankutty

Chairman of Board of Directors

Mr. Ramankutty is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and supply chain services industry. He has founded and sold multiple startups, in addition to senior and advisory roles with SAP, Nike, and Accenture. Padman has strong business development and organizational expertise in enterprise software, professional services, supply chain, IT strategy and leadership. Padman earned BE, MSIE and MBA degrees to bolster his leadership. Mr. Ramankutty also holds multiple BOD and BOA seats with emerging companies.

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Saranya Vasanathakumar

Sr. Principal, Digital Supply Chain

15+ years of experience in complex SAP IBP implementations and integrations. Worked with leading systems integrators including Accenture, Infosys, Intrigo and SCMO2. Strong expertise in delivering SAP IBP projects from Design, Implementation, complex Integrations and Sustenance.

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Dr. Elango Kalyan

VP of Operations

Dr.K. Elangovan B.E., M.B.A., Ph.D, with 25 years of industry across Marketing, Sales, and Program Management. Elango obtained doctorate in “Project Management” research studies and published technical papers in international journals. Elango is responsible for strategic relationships and India operations.

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Kuldeep Desai

Architect, Mulesoft

8 years of experience in implementing integration layers across various industries like Telecom, Digital Business Solutions, IOT,  leveraging MuleSoft and Amazon Web Services . Thought leadership in designing of high-performance and scalable integration platforms using API Led connectivity integration. Hands on experience in Software Development based on Core Java, Mule, Node JS, AWS LAMBDA.  4 years of working experience as Mule Architect for Financial CRM, Digital Business solutions, Online Education, Telecom projects and 7+ years of experience in Mule ESB with expertise in Mule3, Mule4, SOAP and Restful web services. Proficiency in Kibana, Splunk, Web Services, AWS Services, HTML, XML Technologies.

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Karthik Murugesan

Architect, Data Integration

20 years of Industry experience in the Systems Integration space. Experienced working in multiple verticals including Telecomm, Healthcare, Banking, Edtech and Government. Seasoned Kafka Operations SME with 6 successful Enterprise implementations. Experienced professional with expertise in managing and maintaining Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform. Deep understanding of Kafka's architecture, configuration, and administration. Experience in deploying, scaling, and monitoring Kafka clusters in production environments. Skilled in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Kafka, including performance tuning and data replication. Experience in working with other tools and technologies that integrate with Kafka such as Zookeeper, Kafka Connectors and Schema Registry.

Actively involved in Mentoring the next generation of talent.

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Sahil Bansal

Director Digital Supply Chain

Sahil has 11+ years of experience in leading management and implementation of enterprise applications. He has been a delivery focused professional working in architecting and implementation of supply chain planning processes. Sahil has served clients from various industries while working at global companies HCL, Fujitsu, Intrigo, Deloitte, o9 and Cloudpaths. He is Adept in complete life cycle of Planning tools (Development, Implementation, Support and Consulting). Sahil hold an MBA degree from the US and Bachelor in CS from India. Aside from work he likes traveling,  cooking and is a beginner in skiing. He is also an avid numismatist and has showcased his collection at several events.

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Ron Blackburn

VP of Sales

30 years of SAP IBP and Digital Supply Chain experience in the industry with over 25 customers transform. Adept and transformative approach to craft the vision and roadmap for enterprise digital supply chain transformation.

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Pratap Shinde

Director Digital Supply Chain

15+ years of experience in Digital Supply Chain area with SAP IBP, APO, JDA, I2, and IFS technologies. Worked for global systems integrators including Accenture, Infosys, and Intrigo. Expertise in supply chain planning tools and experience with 15 complex supply chain planning transformations.

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Randall Bierman

PMO

30+ years specializing in Program Management and S&OP processes and SAP IBP based transformations.  Worked for Accenture, DXC, Global IBP Advisors, Intrigo Systems, Philips, and Steelwedge. Experience in 15 industries with over 40 clients, managing global PMO and driving Operational Excellence.

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Jay Paramasivam

Founder and CRO

30+ years of experience building and supporting large scale and strategic relationships in the BFSI, Tech and Services Industry. Jay is also a chronic entrepreneur with business interests and investments across the globe.