Oliver Wight Integrated Business Planning (IBP) consultants

Oliver Wight has developed a world-class Integrated Business Planning program to help businesses integrate functional plans, deploy business strategy, and steer business management for growth and success

Oliver Wight IBP services and solutions

Explore our Integrated Business Planning services and solutions below.

 

Integrated Business Planning maturity self-assessment tool

Before embarking on any performance improvement program, it is essential to identify your organization's true level of maturity. The Oliver Wight Maturity Model characterizes an organization as being in one of four key phases of maturity:

  1. Co-ordination

  2. Business Process Control

  3. Automation

  4. Integration

Assess your business maturity in Integrated Business Planning using our free online self-assessment tools.

 

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IBP consulting services

As Integrated Business Planning (IBP) consultants we deliver comprehensive IBP consultancy services, designed to transform your strategic planning processes and ensure your business achieves its full potential. Our approach to IBP consulting is tailored to each organization's unique needs, providing expert guidance and practical solutions to improve planning execution, and overall business performance. 

Our consulting approach incudes:

  • A diagnostic assessment of your current S&OP or IBP process

  • Change management guidance

  • Developing an IBP process tailored to your organization and its needs

  • Action plans to address issues and take advantage of the opportunities identified

  • IBP process assessment and validation

  • Demand planning

  • Supply chain optimization

  • Financial integration

  • Scenario planning

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How we work with you

  1. Initial assessment - understanding your business

  2. Process design (1. Benchmark, 2. Analyze, 3. Educate, 4. Discuss, 5. Design, 6. Commit, 7. Transfer, 8. Coach)

  3. Knowledge transfer - educating your people and gaining commitment

  4. Process implementation and integration

  5. Hands-on coaching and support (IBP training sessions and workshops)

 

More about how we work with you

 

Oliver Wight IBP virtual workshops

We provide transformative virtual workshops on Integrated Business Planning (IBP) designed to help your organization succeed in a dynamic business environment. Our public workshops are designed to provide leaders and their teams with a deep dive into the principles and practises of IBP, ensuring your business stays competitive and adaptable. 

Whether you're new to IBP, looking to enhance your current processes, or considering significant investment in IBP technology, this workshop will provide the knowledge and insights needed to navigate and succeed. Tailored for executives, decision-makers, and managers already involved in or planning to adopt IBP, as well as those facing challenges in aligning their organization or improving efficiency. 

Join us to empower your team, align your strategic goals, and prepare for a successful future in an ever-changing world.

Find out more about our virtual workshops.

 

Looking for help with IBP software?

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board is a holistic solution combining Oliver Wight's industry-leading Class A and implementation change management processes, with Board market-leading software. Fully align people, processes, and technology, and embed IBP and its benefits for years to come. This offering combines IBP technology and process in one package for rapid time to value. You will benefit from Oliver Wight consulting and education + Board Intelligent Planning Platform + specialist implementation services. Find out more about Oliver Wight IBP Powered By Board.

 

Still have questions about IBP? Visit our IBP FAQs.

How you can benefit from Integrated Business Planning - leverage IBP solutions to unlock your full potential, and sustain competitive advantage.

  • Assess the effectiveness of your current S&OP or IBP process

  • Reduce costs and drive efficiency

  • Increase revenue

  • Upskill your team

  • Manage change effectively

  • Reveal opportunities for improvement

  • Enhanced strategic alignment

  • Reduced inventory

  • Improved decision-making

  • Increased agility

  • Long-term sustainability

  • Achieve Class A effectiveness

  • Improved customer service

Why bother with IBP services? IBP consulting can help organizations with a range of issues. Do any of the following sound familiar?

  • You are constantly in ‘fire-fighting’ mode

  • You have a misaligned management team

  • You are continually missing the financial plan

  • You are experiencing rapid growth and can no longer manage effectively using an informal process

  • Your budgeting process is ‘painful’

  • You are struggling to get on top of service issues

  • You cannot keep up with growth in demand

  • You have excessive inventory

  • You are experiencing excessive rework and cost

  • Departments or sites are working in silos

  • There is no ‘single source of truth’ or ‘single set of numbers’ to run the business

  • You feel like you never have time to look at the strategy

  • There is poor deployment and execution of the strategic plan

  • You have poor employee engagement

  • You feel like you are not getting a return on the effort put into your existing S&OP/IBP process

How we can help - working with an IBP consultancy like Oliver Wight to integrate a business strategy can provide significant value.

  • A diagnostic assessment of your current S&OP or IBP process, including its effectiveness and identifying any performance issues

  • Transfer of our knowledge to your people so they can create and manage an effective IBP process

  • Change management – plan, monitor, and support the implementation of change and its impact on your people

  • Facilitate the design of an IBP process to best fit your organization and its needs

  • Scoping of an action plan to address issues and take advantage of the opportunities identified, including resourcing, timelines, and performance improvement expectations

  • Coach IBP process users as you introduce the new ways of working

  • Assess and validate that your IBP process has achieved a Class A level of effectiveness – firmly embedded as the ‘way you do things’ and delivering the benefits you wanted

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a common-sense process designed for effective decision-making and led by your leadership team. True business integration means senior management can plan and manage the entire organization over a 24-36 month horizon, aligning strategic and tactical plans each month, and allocating critical resources, people, equipment, inventory, materials, time, and money; to satisfy your customers in the most profitable way.

IBP represents the evolution of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) from the supply and demand balancing process developed in the early 1980s. Today it is a process that drives the alignment of all functions across an organization, models and creates readiness for alternate outcomes, drives deployment of strategy, and enhances collaboration across supply chains.

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Upcoming courses

Workshops

11 Feb
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice


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10 Jun
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice


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09 Sep
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice


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11 Nov
2025

Virtual (English)

Integrated Business Planning – Introduction, Overview, and Current Best Practice


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Latest white papers & case studies

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning – Management Business Review

This paper provides an overview of the fifth step in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process – The Management Business Review (MBR) – and its significance in shaping the future direction of the business and what it takes to be effective.

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning – The Integrated Reconciliation Review

This paper considers the role of the fourth step in the IBP process, the Integrated Reconciliation Review (IRR). In the IRR, the unresolved issues from the previous three steps are filtered and, where they cannot be addressed, prepared for escalation to

Doom looms or opportunity awaits

Discover how your organization can harness procurement and purchasing to maintain profitability in an uncertain world.

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning - Connecting Strategy to Execution

This white paper demonstrates the principles of connecting strategy to plans and execution in each business function using IBP as the means of deployment.

Assumptions Management Part 2: Structural Integrity

In part one of this white paper, we covered the 10 keys to effective assumption management. Part two investigates the structures and frameworks available to source and stimulate the thinking behind a company’s plans.

Navigating the decision: behavior, empowerment, and integration to support the information revolution

The higher up you go in most organizations, the more unreliable & challenging the information that drives decision making becomes. In this paper, we outline why leaders need to focus on business alignment to deliver a decision-making strategy that works.

From complexity to simplicity: The power of aligning people, process, and technology

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) helps organizations take a holistic view of their operations. It’s not about just co-ordinating every function around a well-defined strategy.

Assumptions Management Part 1: Controlling your future in an uncertain world

In this paper, we outline 10 keys to effective assumption management.

Five key factors to speed up your successful IBP journey: Intelligent solutions meet your integrated process.

In this paper, we outline five key steps to enabling a more integrated, sophisticated, and cost-effective IBP integration.

Gehen Sie Fake News nicht auf den Leim.

Überall auf der Welt lässt sich zurzeit ein besorgniserregender Trend beobachten: Kunden wird Integrated Business Planning (IBP) verkauft, geliefert aber wird einfaches, traditionelles S&OP unter falschem Etikett.

Transformer son S&OP en IBP

Beaucoup d'entreprises ne retirent pas tous les bénéfices potentiels de leur processus S & OP, car ce dernier n’a pas évolué au fil des ans et reste un simple équilibrage demande / supply. Oliver Wight a fait évolué le processus vers la Planification Inté

Navigating Uncertainty: Is Your IBP Process Fit for the Future?

Planning future performance is an integral part of most companies’ operations today – longer-term strategic planning, medium-term business planning, and annual operating planning and budgeting.

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Latest videos and webinars

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Core Capabilities

Dive into the world of Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board as we reveal how our unique solution seamlessly combines people, processes, and technology, giving you a smarter approach to business planning

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Portfolio Review

Discover how targets, strategy and priorities within the Portfolio become easier than ever by viewing the Product Master Plan, Innovation Funnel and Critical Resource Plan all in one place

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Demand Review

Discover how the Demand Review Facilitator dashboard can provide visibility of actual and planned performance, highlighting changes and issues through alerts based on agreed materiality criteria.

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Supply Review

View and implement planning adjustment parameters for critical supply constraints across the end-to-end supply chain.

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Integrated Reconciliation

Visualize multiple scenarios to assist understanding and aid in better resource planning. Filter out the most important information from the IBP cycle for easy presentation creation.

Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board - Management Business Review

Discover how you can easily view organization's KPI scorecard and visualize gaps versus commitments

Balancing Planning (IBP) and Execution (ITP) in Rapidly Changing Socioeconomic Environments

Flavio Pietrocola, Oliver Wight Partner, explains how to find the right balance between Planning (IBP) and Execution (ITP) in this disruptive and rapidly changing world.

How to steer a company through the D-VUCAD world? (in German)

This podcast episode discusses how to steer companies through volatile, unpredictable times and what modern control instruments and technologies there are that companies should use.

Managing Change through Effective Implementation of Integrated Business Planning

Oliver Wight Partner, Gary Connors explains the five common failure modes in implementing Integrated Business Planning and how to manage changes through IBP.

Moving to E2E Supply Chain Management with IBP coordination

Watch the video to see Oliver Wight's CEO Les Brookes explains how to drive End-to-End supply chain transformation with IBP.

Eminox Ltd: What was it like working with Oliver Wight?

Oliver Wight Partner, Dawn Dent spoke to Eminox's Managing Director Mark Runciman, who shares his experience of working with Oliver Wight.

The Digital Supply Chain podcast

Supply Chain Resilience with Integrated Business Planning - a chat with SAP and Oliver Wight.