Strategic Outcomes
Ensure annual planning keeps pace with a dynamic global marketplace. Traditional planning is inefficient and a significant drain on resource; integrated business planning (IBP) maintains a continuously updated operating and financial plan that ensures all information around demand, supply, new product development, strategic initiatives and finance are current and provide a single source of truth for your business.
Streamline sourcing
Determine where, and what, to source in a fraction of the time.
Plan efficiently
Cut hours and days from planning. Accelerate and streamline your planning cycle.
Align stakeholders
Get complete corporate and multi-divisional analysis for stakeholder collaboration.
Benefits
Annual planning unites all stakeholders by requiring cross-functional agreement on key objectives such as defining the optimal configuration of a supply chain. Using this plan, companies can predict and act upon the need for increased investment in inventory, new product introductions, headcount and capital investments.
Increase profits
Effective annual planning helps control costs and improves your competitive advantage.
Improve efficiency
Integrated logistics puts you in a position to predict demand and take timely, appropriate action
Ensure better collaboration
Use annual planning to keep vendors, distributors and employees informed and aligned.
Increase throughput
With better planning you can reduce or eliminate delays in supply chain processes.