Integrated Business Planning provides capabilities to support annual operating plan definition, target settings, and sales and operation forecasts. More broadly, it facilitates the ongoing collaboration across sales, supply chain, finance and channel partners to optimize volumes and financial forecast and deliver against overall business objectives.
Key Processes Supported
Target Setting
S&OP Consensus Forecast
Supply Integration
Distribution Management
Features
IBP forecast
Integrated “Starting Point”
Spreadsheet-like copy/paste
Automatic spreading
Automatic rollup
Exports
Specialized dashboard
Post Event Analysis
Benefits
Ability to execute more business process in one platform
Avoid time, effort, and cost attributable to homegrown tool construction and maintenance
Eliminate risk of accidental corruption or deletion
Automatic presentation of data used to create the forecast
Structure that ensures consistency across users
Reduced learning curve because system has been designed around best practices
Flexibility to configure for your specific needs
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