What is the future of SAP APO?

Standard support for SAP APO which is a part of SAP SCM 7.0 will be stopped in 2025. After that, what will happen (apart from extended paid support) ? Which one of the following is correct?
New version of SAP SCM Powered by SAP HANA will replace SAP SCM 7.0. So, APO will not change much, though it will have added capabilities because of new SAP HANA platform.
Though SAP IBP is not a substitute SAP APO currently, it will have SAP APO capabilities as well in future and will eventually replace SAP APO.
SAP IBP will replace both SAP APO and SAP HANA based APO.
Even SAP didn’t plant that yet. It has not released a plan or road map yet. So, anything might happen.
Does S4HANA have planning functions? If yes, where will it stand in SAP’s portfolio of planning products, in future?
Kindly give links for more information along with your answers, if possible. Thanks.

Ho Satheesh,
Below details are based on notes which I had written in the past and it may not be accurate.
As per my knowledge on SAP's new SCM Strategy, Integrated Business Planning solution comprises sales and operations Planning, Inventory Planning, Demand and Supply Planning. IBP(Integrated Business Planning solution) will not include GATP/PP-DS.  GATP will part of Logistics and order fulfillment and will be clubbed on ECC side.
SAP IBP will come with the speed of the SAP HANA platform and with/without SAP Cloud option.  Logistics and order fulfillment (ECC) track will focus on solutions in the areas - customer service, distribution and fulfillment and logistic network. Focus is definitely on end-to-end and advance visibility, tight integration/consolidation, real time planning/execution and analytics etc and HANA will be on the spotlight.
SAP definitely has a great vision and positive step forward for developing more integrated, technologically powerful and user-centric solution. Now they must execute on that vision to make it real, since they are many hurdles too - one of them current APO installed base.
SAP APO may still be required to support some operational and optimization features and but others areas/features of APO are expected to merge completely with ERP or IBP side or may be something else. 
Standard support for APO will stop in 2020.  however extended support will be available beyond 2020 for 3-5 years period.
Hope this will help.
Thank you
Satish Waghmare

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