Integrated Business Planning
The IBP Tool allows your demand planning team to create consensus-based plans in a collaborative multi-functional process orchestrated through a single platform.
Top-Down / Bottom-Up Planning
Align strategic targets with operations
Reduce cycle time and effort
Single multi-functional planning tool
Business Tasks
- Reduce cycle time and effort of forecasting, planning and budgeting
- Seamlessly align the strategic plan, the corporate plan, the annual budget and the periodic forecast
- Increase accuracy and target achievement with real-time calculations and automatic rollup across plans and reports
- Drive a collaborative “picture’” with connected plans across sales, finance and operations
Functional Components
Demand Forecasting
Volume Building Blocks
Financial Planning
Analytics and Dashboards
Demand Forecasting
Automated baseline sales volume calculation using Holt-Winter method
Staged algorithm includes data clearance, seasonality and trend evaluations
Basic settings have the following options: Period, Planning horizon, Periodic revision
Targeted panel of outlets/clients
Versions and scenarios
Volume Building Blocks
The mechanism enables flexible planning of sales and calculates the impact of internal or external activities that lead to changes in sales volumes: NPD / Delisting, Cannibalization, Short-term impact, Trade Promo, etc.
Financial Planning
Sales planning, financial forecasting and budgeting
Revenue planning for company, clients and channels
Consensus Demand Planning for department cooperation
Analytics and Dashboards
Plan-fact comparison of sales and financial targets
P&L
Cash-flow
ROI
“Paper management” is dead-end. But nowadays, lack of connectivity between tools and systems creates even more complexity.
Roman Dulesov
Sales Director, LARMEA, JDE