Shortfacts - July/August 2020

Hydac standardizes logistical pre-planning

Orbis from Saarbrücken has implemented the SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) cloud solution at the Hydac group of companies with great success. Thanks to the expertise of
Orbis, which has already implemented several projects in the SAP environment at Hydac, and the collaborative partnership between all parties involved, SAP IBP went live as planned in June 2019.

With the introduction of SAP IBP, Hydac has created the prerequisites for uniform, consistent and continuous logistical pre-planning at any aggregation level (customer, plant, supplier, material). This and the fact that the pre-planning carried out in the individual departments can be consolidated into a coordinated, procurement-relevant pre-planning are a real added value.

This demand plan can be replicated directly into the SAP ERP system at Hydac and mapped there as planned independent requirements. Conversely, data for pre-planning is loaded from the ERP back-end into the planning solution. This bidirectional data exchange is made possible by linking SAP IBP and SAP ERP via SAP Cloud Platform Data Services (CPI-DS).

An Excel add-in ensures that users can carry out their planning in their familiar Excel environment. SAP IBP is currently being used in production control, but the next step is to roll out the application to other user groups such as technical sales and key account management.