Integrated Business Planning

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) aligns demand, supply and finance plans for a clear line of sight across an organization. Discover seven success strategies for your IBP journey.

This whitepaper shares the key metrics that bring supply chain, sales, finance, customer service, and operations executives together in their assessment of risk and reward.

Dig deep enough, and it will become evident that inventory is a symptom of other business issues, in reality, ownership of inventory should reside with the entity that owns the “root cause” of inventory.

Who owns inventory? stop the blame game, it’s a common question, but the wrong question to ask, this white paper explains why and what you should be asking.

This is about the five question concept, a simple way of structuring information and discussions for each of the review steps within the sales and operation process, and an integrated business planning process.

In this white paper, we discuss a series of five questions - simple 'must-haves', which can be applied to any organization and which can be used in each of the five IBP review meetings to ensure they address the key issues facing the business in a standardized way, validate the plans and make required decisions.

Learn the key to the effective execution of Sales and Operations Planning S&OP and Integrated Tactical Planning plans.

This white paper, Effective Execution of S&OP/IBP Plans through Integrated Tactical Planning, gives you an in-depth look at this planning process, how to recognize the symptoms of non-integrated processes and to remedy them.

With the impacts of the Coronavirus continuing to advance, how can we be prepared for events like these?

This educational and informative white paper details how to deploy a usable, flexible, and adaptable transportation management system, or TMS, and how an organization can build the right business case.

When you go beyond sales and operations planning (S&OP) to a higher level of coordination and efficiency across functions and planning horizons, you will have started an IBP revolution that will benefit your entire organization far into the future.

Attaining superior supply chain planning and optimization capabilities has become a necessity for survival in today's highly competitive global manufacturing environment.

Only a scalable, interoperable supply chain planning and optimization platform can ensure a company’s supply chain performance is optimized

Recently I got an email from the North Pole saying that Santa Claus wanted to talk with me...I will have to admit that when you get a request from the head of the elves it is not something you want to ignore. A phone call was set up for later that week.

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): An integrated business management process through which an executive team continually achieves focus, alignment and synchronization among all functions of the organization.