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  1. Integrated planning: The key to upstream operational excellence

    Bain's work with oil and gas companies improving their integrated planning skills shows that quality planning improves operational efficiency in significant ways. Safer. Integrated planning ensures that adequate focus and resources are allocated to health, safety and environmental (HSE) activities. It reduces the number of rushed tasks that ...

  2. Integrated planning: The key to operational excellence

    Overall, integrated planning creates more efficient and effective operations while reducing safety risks, maximizing uptime, and making better use of resources. John McCreery leads Bain & Company's Oil & Gas practice in Asia-Pacific. He is based in Singapore. Ethan Phillips is a partner in Bain's Houston office.

  3. The transformative power of integrated business planning

    One global manufacturer set up its integrated business planning (IBP) system as the sole way it ran its entire business, creating a standardized, integrated process for strategic, tactical, and operational planning. Although the company had previously had a sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, it had been owned and led solely by the supply chain function.

  4. PDF Integrated planning: The key to upstream operational excellence

    The plan aligned those priorities, from business planning through activity planning and activity scheduling. The process even budgeted time and resources for inevitable emergent work to proceed without a central review and approval process. Bringing everyone onto a common planning system is another important step in promoting integrated plan-

  5. Extracting value by integrating business units

    Extracting value by integrating business units. Our client, an Asian conglomerate, needed to successfully integrate two business units. We helped mitigate key integration challenges, identify six key sources of value and objectively design an integrated organization. The integration exceeded synergy targets, improved profits and increased the ...

  6. Integrated Management System

    These are just some of the benefits of a Dynamic Management System, which allows you to run the business and simultaneously change the business to seize new opportunities. Your integrated management system—the processes and operating rhythm that determine how you set priorities, allocate resources, review execution, and adapt to changing ...

  7. Strategic Planning That Produces Real Strategy

    But we find that world-class strategic planning incorporates five key principles. Principle 1: Strategic planning and budgeting are both essential, but they aren't the same thing. A great strategy strikes a careful balance between bold ambition and practical implementation, but ambition leads the way. Too many companies conflate strategy and ...

  8. Consulting Services

    Our management consulting services focus on our clients' most critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology, transformation, digital, advanced analytics, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and sustainability across all industries and geographies. We bring deep, functional expertise, but are known for our holistic perspective: we capture ...

  9. Transforming Integrated Business Planning Platforms

    AI-driven IBP platforms help companies improve business planning in several ways. Chiefly, they create a planning process that extends from end to end in an organization. The platforms connect upstream planning, such as supply chain planning, with downstream planning, such as demand forecasts, commercial planning, and financial forecasting.

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  11. Integrated planning: The key to upstream operational excellence

    Bain's how with oil and gas companies improving ihr integrated planning skills shows ensure quality planning improves functional efficiency in significant ways. 7 February 2023 Safer. Integrated planning assures that adequate focus and resources are allocated to health, security both environmental (HSE) activities.

  12. What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

    Integrated business planning framework. Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a holistic approach that integrates strategic planning, operational planning, and financial planning within an organization. IBP brings together various functions, including sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, human resources, IT and beyond to collaborate across ...

  13. Integrated Business Planning Best Practices: A BTG Expert Q&A

    Integrated business planning is a process that continuously aligns targets, assumptions, and plans across all key players in a company to assure more reliable achievement of business plans and brand objectives. In plain English, it's a way to get everyone on the same page, fast, and execute. IBP emerged in the early 2000s because of a very ...

  14. What Is Integrated Business Planning and Why Is It Important?

    March 16, 2021. Think of modern integrated business planning, or IBP, as a mashup of supply chain optimization, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and operational best practices, powered by a companywide culture that's all about delivering the speed, savings and responsiveness today's consumers demand while managing risk.

  15. PDF Integrated business planning

    integrated business planning Through our experience, we have identified that high-performing organizations consistently demonstrate the following five traits in their business planning practices: 1 Grounded in an organization's purpose• Leading organizations optimize the benefit of integrated business planning by

  16. How Collaboration Can Improve Integrated Business Planning

    One of the benefits of IBP is the ability to engage in strategic initiatives across multiple departments (e.g., supply chain planning, finance, procurement, sales, etc.) in a way that can unify ...

  17. Integrated Business Planning: An Overview for Finance Leaders

    Summary. This research concisely defines integrated business planning for heads of FP&A, including the process's concrete elements and claimed benefits. We also explore the finance function's potential role in IBP as more enterprises consider implementing it.

  18. Complete Guide to Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

    A typical IBP process involves several stages: Data Collection and Analysis: Gathering relevant data (e.g., sales forecasts, production capacities, inventory levels and financial projections) from different departments. Demand Planning: Predicting future demand based on historical data, market trends, customer feedback and sales forecasts ...

  19. PDF What is Integrated Business Planning?

    2 Gartner, "Integrated Business Planning: Defining the Role of Finance", Nisha Bhandare, 7 January 2022. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission.

  20. Integrated Business Planning 2024: Guide

    IBP operates on a rolling horizon, typically spanning 24 to 36 months. This enables retail leaders to make proactive decisions based on long-term forecasts and analyses. This forward-thinking approach aligns strategic and operational plans. It ensures that tactical decisions support the business's overarching goals.

  21. SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain

    The SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) solution is a cloud-based supply chain planning solution that scales to accommodate business growth and integrates with other SAP and third-party systems. It integrates key aspects of the planning process including demand, supply, inventory, and sales and operations planning (S&OP

  22. SAP Integrated Business Planning

    SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain enables businesses to centralize demand, supply, inventory, sales, and operations planning on one platform to create more efficient and resilient supply chains. With embedded analytics, what-if simulations, alerts, and other machine learning capabilities, you can quickly identify and respond to ...