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Find your organisation’s IBP starting point

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.

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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.

Silo breakers in Finance:

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.

Silo breakers in HR:

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.

Silo breakers in Supply chain:

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.

Silo breakers in Sales and Marketing:

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.

Were better in person

There’s only so much you can say on a website. We’d love to learn about you so we can tailor our advice to where you are on your IBP journey.

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