Integrated Business Planning
For integrating functional plans, deploying business strategy and driving business management
Led by your executive team, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a common-sense process designed for effective decision-making. It allows senior management to plan and manage your entire organization over a 24-month horizon or more, aligning strategic and tactical plans each month, and allocating critical resources, people, equipment, inventory, materials, time, and money; to satisfy your customers in the most profitable way.
IBP represents the evolution of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) from the supply and demand balancing process developed in the early 1980s. Today it is a process that drives the alignment of all functions across an organization, models and creates readiness for alternate outcomes, drives deployment of strategy, and enhances collaboration across supply chains.
You should consider Integrated Business Planning for your business if:
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You are constantly in ‘fire-fighting’ mode
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You have a misaligned management team
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You are continually missing the financial plan
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You are experiencing rapid growth and can no longer manage effectively using an informal process
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Your budgeting process is ‘painful’
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You are struggling to get on top of service issues
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You cannot keep up with growth in demand
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You have excessive inventory
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You are experiencing excessive rework and cost
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Departments or sites are working in silos
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There is no ‘single source of the truth’ or ‘single set of numbers’ to run the business
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You feel like “we never get the time to look at the strategy”
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There is poor deployment and execution of the strategic plan
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You have poor employee engagement
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You feel like you are not getting a return on the effort put into your existing S&OP/IBP process
How we can help
A diagnostic assessment of your current S&OP or IBP process, including its effectiveness and identifying any performance issues
Transfer of our knowledge to your people so they can create and manage an effective Integrated Business Planning process
Change Management – planning, monitoring and supporting the implementation of change and its impact on your people
Facilitate the design of an IBP process to best fit your organisation and its needs
Scoping of an action plan to address issues and take advantage of the opportunities identified, including resourcing, timelines and performance improvement expectations.
Coaching IBP process users as you introduce the new ways of working
Assessment and validation that your IBP process has achieved a Class A level of effectiveness – firmly embedded as the ‘way you do things’ and delivering the benefits you wanted
“Integrated Business Planning is a cutting edge process which creates cross-functional alignment and enables businesses to re-focus to meet the ever-changing environment. IBP generates readiness for alternative outcomes, enhances collaboration, and ultimately drives deployment of strategy in an uncertain world.
The chosen process of some of the world’s most progressive and best-known organizations, IBP is a common-sense process that maximizes profit and enables leaders to manage risk with confidence.”
– Anne Marie Kilkenny, Oliver Wight Partner.
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Moving to E2E Supply Chain Management with IBP coordination
Watch the video to see Oliver Wight's CEO Les Brookes explains how to drive End-to-End supply chain transformation with IBP.
Eminox Ltd: What was it like working with Oliver Wight?
Oliver Wight Partner, Dawn Dent spoke to Eminox's Managing Director Mark Runciman, who shares his experience of working with Oliver Wight.
The Digital Supply Chain podcast
Supply Chain Resilience with Integrated Business Planning - a chat with SAP and Oliver Wight.
IBP: Driving Growth, Increasing Productivity & Improving Customer Service
Oliver Wight’s Paul Ducie joins Olivehorse Consulting to discuss how to assess your organization’s maturity, and define the correct approach for implementation.
Dynamic Integrated Business Planning: aligning process and tools to meet the challenges of an everch
The right collaboration between process and tools can deliver the IBP promise efficiently and dynamically.
The Enemies of Effective Measures
Does your business truly understand measuring and analysis? Do you apply the data and learn from it? Or are there conflicting or biased measures happening behind the scenes?
What business leaders are talking about today
Oliver Wight's Andy Walker and EY's Jocelyn Hallum discuss what business leaders are talking about today.
Financial Planning with IBP: Creating one process for your business
Join Oliver Wight Partners Monte Maritz & Lucy Jacobs for this webinar in our ongoing series focused on the evolution of Integrated Business Planning.
Data accuracy in the healthcare industry
Oliver Wight Partners Gary Connors and Steve Rowntree lift the lid on why data accuracy (or inaccuracy) is so prevalent in the healthcare industry.
How to build the case for change from S&OP to full IBP
The third in our webinar series for the Industrial Sector exploring ways to measure and drive improvement in business performance.
The future of Integrated Business Planning
In an era of rapidly changing consumer needs, the need to effectively align your business strategy with all your business processes is vital to stay ahead of your competitors.
Improving service at a lower cost
The Power of Moving from S&OP to Integrated Business Planning (IBP)