Integrated Business Planning
Integrated Business Planning is the industry's best practice model. Led by senior management, it is a common sense process for aligning the company plans every month, which will help you to allocate the critical resources - people, equipment, inventory, materials, time and money - to most effectively satisfy your customers, in a profitable way.
Overview
- Planning, data and workflow management
- Business modeling, optimization & scenario management
- Performance management capabilities built to enable enterprise adoption of prescriptive analytics
Features
Planning:
- Standardized source data extracts and multi-dimensional scenario input adjustments through OLAP data models
- Detailed and automated user permissions management through an integrated security model
- End-user interaction enabled via an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop dashboard for quick data input and visualization
- Configurable workflow management for aligning planning tasks with end user roles, dashboards and timelines
- Holistic representation of the business in terms of decision-making
- Ability to simultaneously evaluate millions of decision variables and business constraints around demand, supply, financials and company policy to create optimized, feasible plans
- In-depth scenario evaluation that aligns business functions across silos, including the optimal demand to pursue, product mix, capacity planning and risk scenarios
- Code-free, visual modeling capabilities with tools for constructing a single, integrated model of an enterprise including physical / logical process and financial flows
- Enables to track Key Optimization Indicators (KOIs) and control the level of performance
- Ability to simultaneously evaluate millions of decision variables and business constraints around demand, supply, financials and company policy to create optimized, feasible plans
- Enables planners to track the results of published plans in terms of actual performance and take corrective actions mid-planning cycle
Benefits
- Faster and more informed decision-making, based on an end-to-end view of the business
- Improved customer satisfaction through better on-time delivery and fewer stock-outs
- Improved inventory turns and better management of obsolete and excess stock
- More effective resource allocation between competing projects and investments
- Increased ownership of targets and rapid commitment to revised plans