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To be done well, Integrated business planning requires some minimum fundamental knowledge in a variety of areas.
Planning horizons define how far forward your organization looks when making decisions — and more importantly, how the nature of those decisions...
Portfolio management is the discipline of managing the mix of products and services a company offers 💼 — deciding what to launch, what to keep, and...
Every product follows a predictable arc from launch to retirement. The product lifecycle describes this arc in four stages — introduction, growth,...
Demand planning is the process of estimating future customer demand and translating those estimates into actionable plans that drive supply,...
You can't manage what you don't measure, and demand forecasts are no exception. Forecast accuracy quantifies how close your
Traditional demand planning operates on a monthly cycle — but the real world doesn't wait for your next S&OP meeting.
Supply planning is the process of determining how to fulfill projected demand — translating what your business expects to sell into what it needs to...
Inventory policies determine how much to order ⚖️ and when. 📆.
Cost optimization based on supply chain policies involves first understanding how costs 💰 are related to the order quantity, then optimizing the...
Capacity planning is the discipline of matching what you're able to produce with what the business needs you to produce.
Procurement planning is where the supply plan meets the outside world — ensuring that purchased materials, components, and services are available in...
Financial planning in IBP is the process of translating operational plans — demand, supply, and portfolio — into a unified financial projection 📈.
A gap is the difference between where the plan says the business is heading and where the business needs to be 🎯.
Scenario planning is the practice of developing multiple forward-looking plans to evaluate risk, opportunity, and trade-offs before decisions are made...
The Management Business Review (MBR) is the apex of the IBP cycle — the senior leadership meeting where cross-functional plans converge, gaps are...
IBP without governance is just a series of meetings. Decision rights define who can make what decisions, at what level, and through what process —...
You manage what you measure — and in IBP, metrics are the mechanism that turns cross-functional alignment from an aspiration into an observable...
IBP maturity describes how advanced an organization's planning capability is — from ad-hoc firefighting to a fully integrated, analytics-driven...