Integrated Business Planning doesn’t begin, well, integrated.

Most of our customers have started their journey trying to fix an individual pain point – say Supply Chain Planning, or FP&A – then built momentum and new use cases from there.

The best starting point for your organisation depends on your industry, most pressing challenges, appetite for change, and a few other factors. We’re happy to advise and help you build a business case.

Identify your next best step

And don’t forget: IBP really takes off when you break down departmental silos and start collaborating in real time. This helps your department communicate its needs to other stakeholders – but will also highlight your contribution to overall business success.

We can help you identify your next best use case and a roadmap for your organisation.

These departments frequently champion IBP.

Finance

  • Improve speed and accuracy of financial planning and forecasting activities.
  • Increase control over organisational performance management and financial data stewardship.
  • Empower your FP&A Centre of Excellence to conduct forward-looking analytics rather than rear-view mirror data crunching.
  • Connect your FP&A and business teams by integrating forecasting and performance management in real-time on a single, scalable platform.
  • Enable scenario-based modelling for your FP&A teams to bring their business partner role to the next level.

HR and workforce

  • Plan your workforce so it has the right skills and scale to meet growing demands.
  • Perform granular staff skills mapping and achieve workload optimisation.
  • Perform scenario analysis to understand, resolve and mitigate any demand-supply gaps, risks, and potential talent attrition.
  • Connect workforce modelling to demand forecasting scenarios and increase cross-departmental collaboration.
  • Synchronise your plans across horizons and stakeholders: link up strategic workforce plans, medium-term forecasts and granular scheduling activities.

Supply chain

  • Incorporate statistical forecasting based on advanced capabilities.
  • Adopt granular modelling capabilities on volumes, values, multiple time horizons, product levels, materials, and geographies.
  • Run scenarios for inventory optimisation, constraint planning and financial impact.
  • Bring resilience and adaptability to your supply chain by integrating demand, supply, inventory and finance planning to achieve true cross-functional decision making.
  • Support wider operational decision making with advanced analytics and scenario cockpits.

Sales and marketing

  • Gain confidence in your growth plans by planning and tracking activity across your sales and marketing teams.
  • Remove bias by leveraging statistical forecasting capabilities, trend analysis, and connecting relevant third-party data into your sales forecasts.
  • Reduce cycle times and time spent by target setting optimisation.
  • Link up marketing and sales forecasting: Achieve visibility into the effectiveness of your marketing efforts, and optimise promotions and spend.
  • Increase online collaboration within and between territories.