Seize Quick, Substantial Wins with Minimal Disruption.
- Institute a consummate IBP process that immediately exceeds Gartner's Level V of IBP maturity by supporting Decision-Centric Planning – See Gartner’s Maverick* Research: It Is Time to Move Beyond Traditional S&OP — Introducing Decision-Centric Planning.
- Maintain a complete, always-current picture of IBP goals, opportunities, challenges, options, thinking, decisions, and plans — eliminating packet prep work and enabling smarter, faster, unified team decisions.
- Systematically elevate IBP team vision, decision-making, and opportunistic operational agility.
- Increase alignment of production and resources with profitable and strategic demand — increasing operating margins.
- Institute IBP process definition, standardization, adherence, training, certification, efficiency — and systematic elevation and evolution of IBP into a strategic competitive advantage.
- Develop expertise with Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS), and set the stage for expanding its application across the enterprise.
Within SmartsEngine™, IBP is a Navigation Function Elevated by ENS
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Beyond balancing supply and demand, aligning operational plans with financial targets, and reviewing performance — IBP elevated by ENS is about getting ever-better at:
* Reading signals from markets and industries,
* Seeing and anticipating opportunities, risks, and threats,
* Formulating and evaluating options,
* Making and executing winning decisions,
* Learning and evolving with outcomes. - The focus changes from reconciling numbers and achieving consensus to continuously navigating the enterprise in markets and industries into winning position.