Continuously delivered cloud service — SAP publishes no single end-of-maintenance date, so there is no countdown for the line as a whole.
SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) — full name SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain — is SAP's cloud supply-chain-planning suite, covering demand, supply, response, inventory optimisation and sales-and-operations planning. It is the cloud successor to SAP APO and the planning scenarios of SAP SCM, and retains the IBP name.
As a continuously delivered cloud service it follows a rolling-release model: SAP updates it on a regular cadence and publishes no single end-of-maintenance date, so there is no countdown clock for the line as a whole. Individual data-center releases may carry their own short windows, but customers are kept current automatically rather than facing a version cliff.
As the strategic destination for APO and SCM planning, IBP is a go-forward platform. SAP SCM 7.0 customers move their planning here, typically as one track of a broader supply-chain modernisation that also lands execution scenarios (such as EWM and TM) inside SAP S/4HANA.
Supply-chain planning and IT teams retiring SAP APO are the primary audience. Delivered as continuously updated SaaS with quarterly releases, IBP has no single end-of-life date, but customers should keep pace with the release cadence rather than treat it as a static system.
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