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Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board

For optimising business outcomes, maximising profit, and reducing risk.

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 and decision-making.

Align your decisions to accelerate execution and deliver strategy.

Ready to accelerate operational excellence, unlock consistent performance, and achieve faster growth? Look no further than Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board.

Realise your organisation’s IBP vision with a holistic solution combining Oliver Wight’s industry-leading Class A and implementation change management processes with Board software. Fully align people, processes, and technology and embed IBP and its benefits for years to come.

Packaged For Rapid Time To Value.

Oliver Wight Consulting And Education

Industry-leading expertise implemented by thousands of organisations.

Board Intelligent Planning Platform

Preconfigured to meet 70% of your IBP requirements from the start – with the flexibility to customise.

Specialist Implementation Services

Configure and tailor the solution to fully align with your company’s unique requirements.

How you can benefit:

Optimise Business Outcomes, Maximise Profit, And Reduce Risk.

We help you:

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Demand and revenue growth
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Portfolio and innovation improvement
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Supply constraints and balanced demand
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Strategic imperatives delivered by integrated and timely operational decisions
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Continuous view of healthy performance, course to correct, scenario analysis of risk and opportunities
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Closed-loop management system focused on delivering performance by identifying and solving constraints and optimising trade-offs

A Deep Dive Into IBP.

Enhance your IBP process.

01. Cross-functional, analytics-driven IBP across operations, supply chain, and finance.
02. Class A standard IBP process from Oliver Wight combined with industry-leading Intelligent Planning from Board.
03. Expert support from start to finish ensures strategic alignment, greater engagement, and reduced risk.

Ready to learn more about IBP?

Leverage Capabilities And Features You Require.

Core Capabilities

Track performance versus the business plan and strategy, analyse complex data, and build and manage scenarios across portfolio, demand, and supply.
Understand project volume, revenue, cost, and profitability across the business.
Visualise changes to assumptions and their impacts on your plan.
Write back to your system of record.
Model vulnerabilities and opportunities in your scenario analysis.
Highlight gaps and issues along with recommendations to best manage them.
Manage and track decisions and actions.
Embed and empower organisational roles and responsibilities.
Document and control IBP process workflow.
Surface trends and manage KPIs.
Produce one-page summaries.
Orchestrate and sustain Integrated Business Planning transformation.
Run your IBP process review from the software to eliminate time-consuming information deck preparation.
Customise out-of-the-box standard visualisations to suit your needs.

Product/Portfolio Review

Product/portfolio strategy, targets, and priorities.
Innovation funnel.
Product Master Plan.
Product/Portfolio Management.
Critical resource plan.

Demand Review

Sales and marketing strategy, targets, and priorities.
Unconstrained demand plan for the defined IBP horizon.
Receive demand from multiple external systems.
Overlay assumptions for trade promotion, strategic pricing, customer/channel adjustments, and management ADJs.
Integration with AI/ML for demand alignment.

Supply Chain Review

Supply chain strategy, targets, and priorities.
Supply, procurement, and inventory plans for the defined IBP horizon.
Incorporate 3rd party supply.
Critical resource planning.
Flex capacity scenario evaluation.

Integrated Reconciliation Process & Review

Rough-cut P&L for the defined IBP horizon.
Gap to business plan and strategy including business priorities.
Gap-closing options modeled and recommendations produced.
Capex management incorporated.
Scenario planning.
Integrated Reconciliation Issues Tracker.

Management Business Review

Strategic target and priority setting.
Materiality & decisions required.
Standard decision templates.

Board software platform designed for Oliver Wight IBP

Technology designed to conform with the Oliver Wight IBP Proven Path.
Pre-built dashboards.
Customisable capsules.
Complete planning control in an easy, unified environment.
Advanced AL and ML.
Predictive planning and forecasting.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is “Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board”?

It is a holistic Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solution that seamlessly combines Oliver Wight’s industry-leading Class A processes and change management expertise with the Board Intelligent Planning Platform. This packaged solution aligns people, processes, and technology to help organisations accelerate operational excellence, achieve consistent performance, and foster faster growth.

How does this solution deliver rapid “time to value”?

The solution is packaged for speed and efficiency, bringing together three core elements:

Oliver Wight Consulting & Education: Implementing proven expertise used by thousands of organisations.
Board Intelligent Planning Platform: Preconfigured to meet 70% of standard IBP requirements straight out of the box, whilst retaining the flexibility to be fully customised.
Specialist Implementation Services: Ensuring the software is tailored to fully align with your company’s unique operational needs, meaning it can be deployed in the same timeframe as the process education and design.

What specific business outcomes can be achieved using this tool?

By integrating people and technology, the platform helps organisations optimise business outcomes, maximise profit, and reduce risk. Specifically, it enables:

Better demand and revenue growth.
Improvements in portfolio and innovation management.
Balanced demand through effective management of supply constraints.
Strategic imperatives delivered via timely operational decisions.
A continuous view of performance, alongside scenario analysis to identify risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities.

What are the key reviews and modules built into the software?

The software is designed to perfectly mirror the Oliver Wight IBP Proven Path. It features dedicated modules for:

Product/Portfolio Review: Managing product strategies, the innovation funnel, and critical resource planning.
Demand Review: Developing an unconstrained demand plan, overlaying assumptions, and integrating AI/ML for demand alignment.
Supply Chain Review: Planning supply, procurement, and inventory for the IBP horizon, including flex capacity scenario evaluation.
Integrated Reconciliation & Management Business Review: Delivering rough-cut P&Ls, gap-closing models, scenario planning, and standard decision templates for executive leadership.

What makes the Board platform’s user experience unique for IBP?

The platform is the only purpose-built IBP solution that features a comprehensive Product Portfolio Review (including a Product Master Plan and innovation funnel). It replaces time-consuming slide decks by allowing you to run your entire IBP process review directly from the software. It also offers an easy-to-use interface for assumption-based scenarios, advanced AI and Machine Learning capabilities for predictive forecasting, and a closed-loop management system designed for active team collaboration.

Delivered Through Experiences Users Crave.

The only purpose-built IBP solution featuring a Product Portfolio Review that includes a Product Master Plan and innovation funnel and critical resource planning.

Unlimited category builds for complete portfolio visibility and better decision making.

Easy-to-use interface for assumption-based scenarios.

Closed loop management for team collaboration and interaction.

Strategic Planning
Success Stories.

CPG 6 mins read

Australian Food Manufacturer

An Australian-based company has earned a reputation as one of the country’s most respected food manufacturers, winning several awards in recognition of its superior products. By investing in a programme of education and process re-design with business transformation specialist, Oliver Wight, the company has evolved to become sustainably profitable, across several channels by meeting the changing and exacting needs of customers including the major grocery retailers, airlines and restaurant chains.

Chemical 8 mins read

AkzoNobel

When the Hull site acquired Lindgens’ ink business, production demand doubled almost overnight and, struggling to keep up, the company embarked on a business improvement programme with Oliver Wight. In less than 12 months, it had dramatically improved customer service levels and made savings of more than two million euros. As a result, ANPG has received not just one Oliver Wight Class A award, but two – for Planning and Control, and Integrated Business Planning.

Industrial Manufacturing 5 mins read

Aircelle

Aircelle’s Moroccan plant is flying high – with the help of Oliver Wight it has achieved Class A accreditation in near record time and is using new-found efficiency improvements and the resulting cost savings to drive an ambitious growth plan.