Supply chain resilience is no longer a reactive discipline—it is a strategic imperative. Tariff shifts, geopolitical realignments, and sustainability commitments are forcing companies to rethink their supply chain networks at a pace that traditional planning cycles cannot support.

AIMMS SC Navigator is now available on the SAP Store and integrates natively with SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP)

The Challenge: Planning and Network Design Have Operated in Silos

For years, supply chain planning and network design have been two distinct worlds. S&OP teams work within SAP IBP, optimizing short- to mid-term demand, supply, and inventory decisions. Network Design teams, meanwhile, work in separate tools—often spending weeks or months preparing and cleansing data before a single scenario can be modelled. The result: strategic decisions about factory footprints, distribution networks, and capital investments are made with stale data, long after the business context has shifted.

The current volatile environment makes this disconnect unsustainable. Events like mergers and acquisitions, product portfolio changes, nearshoring decisions, and capex investments require scenario modelling outside the existing network—and they require it quickly. Supply chain leaders need answers in days, not months.

What the Partnership Delivers

MMS SC Navigator connects directly to SAP IBP via the standardized OData protocol, retrieving master data and planning data in real time. This shared data foundation eliminates the most time-consuming step in network design: data preparation. What previously took months now takes hours.

Why This Matters for SAP IBP Customers

SAP IBP is the planning backbone for more than a thousand companies worldwide. With this partnership, customers no longer need to choose between the precision of their IBP data and the strategic depth of network optimization—they get both, connected.

Plan for the Future, Outside the Existing Network

• Prepare for disruptions and geopolitical risks with dedicated Network Design scenarios
• Model M&A, product portfolio strategy, and CapEx investments beyond the current network
• Get started fast with the pre-built SAP IBP connector—no lengthy implementation
• Break the silos between Planning and Network Design teams with a unified data model
• Add a strategic decision layer on top of S&OP, connecting the full decision lifecycle

AIMMS brings nearly 40 years of optimization expertise to this partnership, with a client base that includes Heineken, BASF, Philips, and Shell. Headquartered in the Netherlands, AIMMS operates globally with offices in Singapore and the USA. Joining the SAP PartnerEdge program signals a deep commitment to joint innovation and to delivering integrated, enterprise-grade capabilities to shared customers.

Available Now on SAP Store

AIMMS SC Navigator for SAP IBP is available on the SAP Store today. Existing SAP IBP customers can connect to AIMMS SC Navigator with minimal setup, using the standardised OData integration to begin modelling strategic scenarios from their live planning data immediately.