Integrated Business Planning (S&OP) in Practice

• IBP as a formal management process and its benefits. • How IBP aligns the modern organization, from planning to financial matrix. integration, and how it ensures focused decision-making to deliver the strategy and close gaps between ambition and reality. • How the focus on the right horizon, level of detail, and critical exceptions ensures effective executive alignment, supported by assumption management and responsiveness to change. • The core components of modern IBP – Portfolio, Demand and Supply Chain Management. • The critical requirements, including process, roles, measures and reviews, and the importance of integrated reconciliation, financial integration, IBP facilitation, and the executive Management Business Review. • The challenges and requirements to support the implementation journey.

• Clarity on what IBP looks like and how it is designed to deliver excellence. • An understanding of the foundational principles that support IBP success and how IBP can challenge some of the norms and behaviours in your organization. • Practical knowledge about key process components. • How IBP is evolving and its relevance in a changing world. • The challenges that drive IBP implementations and an understanding of why it is important to focus on behaviour and process in the right way to ensure success. • Real world examples to help guide your journey and challenges.

This workshop is an opportunity to gain a developed view of IBP, ensuring you are prepared for the future, whatever it may hold. You should attend if: • You are struggling to align your organization in an ever-changing world and/or are caught up in a cycle of firefighting and inefficiency. • You are missing budgets and forecasts yet spend a lot of time preparing plans nobody believes. • You are caught in a siloed organization with functional or ineffective decision-making. • You have been introduced to IBP yet want to learn more about the process and how to deliver success for your organization. • You are an organization running an S&OP/IBP process already and feel that it is not delivering the results you expect. • You are an organization considering a major software tool investment to support IBP but need to be sure that you are taking the right approach.

• Executives and business leaders who have been introduced to IBP and want to learn more about how it can work in their organization. • Decision-makers who are thinking about implementing IBP either as a process or a tool journey. • Smaller organizations who are not ready for a full program but are considering implementing IBP. • Managers who are in a business running IBP/S&OP today and want to understand best practices to better execute their roles. • Key stakeholders in businesses who are running or implementing IBP today with Oliver Wight as implementation partners either in the past or present, who require IBP introductory education.