IBP adoption or enhancement programmes are typically complex and demand both significant investment and widespread change in the organisa...

As I have described in various blog posts, the deployment or development of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is challenging. Research c...

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) (and its forerunner Sales and Operations Planning or S&OP) have traditionally been perceived and manag...

Organisations face an ever-increasing series of challenges in order to build sustainable and profitable business. These challenges are m...

In previous articles (eg How to Build a Strategic Capability in S&OP), I have highlighted a number of critical foundations required to em...

In my last article ‘Cross-Functional Collaboration – A Critical Success Factor For Growth’, I outlined the growing imperative for cross-f...

In my previous posts, I have discussed the challenges in deploying an effective S&OP/IBP process which are experienced by organisations a...

In my previous post Evolving S&OP/IBP for the Real World, I outlined the key challenges in deploying S&OP/IBP and how these result from b...

It is widely reported that only a small proportion (typically around 30%) of S&OP/IBP deployments deliver and sustain the full business b...

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) are often seen as fundamentally supply-chain centred processes w...

My experiences as a commercial leader deploying S&OP/IBP have illustrated very clearly the critical need for cross-functional engagement ...

It is now widely recognised that S&OP (or its successor IBP) is much more than a specialist supply chain process and requires a high degr...

In my previous article, “3 Tools for Sustainable Cross-Functional S&OP” I introduced the key roles that coaching and mentoring can play i...