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Six signs your business needs Integrated Business Planning
Written by Kirsty Braines, COO at Oliver Wight EAME 1. Supply chain has ownership of your business planning process Many businesses make the mistake of making supply chain operations the driving force behind their business improvement program. This leads to a disproportionate emphasis on opera...
Coronavirus: Can you plan for a pandemic?
Written by Andy Walker, Partner at Oliver Wight EAME It’s hard to imagine that two months ago hardly anyone had heard of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and now its impact on people, businesses and governments is being felt worldwide. The fact is a ‘pandemic’ was always going to happen, ...
FC Company Integrated Business Planning (IBP) journey – Part 2
By Liam Harrington and Anne Marie Kilkenny, Associates at Oliver Wight We’re now 3 weeks in and getting the design teams underway. This is a very important task, as well as a critical role in developing an Integrated Business Planning process that will work effectively at FC. The design tea...
Case study: Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon
Throughout our 50-year history as business transformation specialists, we’ve worked tens of dozens of companies from across a spectrum of sectors, including chemical, pharmaceutical and manufacturing, helping to elevate performance, motivate cultural change and enable sustainable success. In D...
Is IBP your primary planning process?
Recently, I have been working with several healthcare businesses, which are all struggling with the same issue. Despite having developed and implemented an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, they are continuing to run a separate quarterly forecast process to satisfy the needs of their &lsqu...
Brexit: Retail, are you ready?
By Debbie Bowen-Heaton, Partner at Oliver Wight EAME Ever missed a deadline to fulfil a customer order? You’re not the only one – I’m looking at you, Brexit. The 29th March 2019 has been and gone, and the UK is still part of the EU - just. After initially approving a short exte...
FC Company Integrated Business Planning (IBP) journey – Part 3
By Liam Harrington and Anne Marie Kilkenny, Associates at Oliver Wight If you read the last blog you’ll know that we hit a bit of a delay while the Integrated Business Planning design teams were finalised. There were some last minute changes and swaps but now we’re into it! There has ...
Managing cash flow and plan alignment with Integrated Business Planning
By Oliver Wight Partner, Mike Snape As organisations across the globe focus their efforts on understanding and combating the pressures and risks presented by the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses are relying on their Integrated Business Planning process to understand the ‘new normal&rsq...
Reflections on 30 years of driving business improvements with Oliver Wight: Part 1
By Oliver Wight Partner, Andrew Purton It seems implausible to me that I have now completed three decades working with Oliver Wight, educating, facilitating, and coaching businesses across the world to deploy business transformation programmes. The time has flown, and the experiences have been as...
How to Convince Your Colleagues that Integrated Business Planning is Best for Your Business
So, you’re sold on the idea of Integrated Business Planning and want to make a case for change, but you’re sensing hesitation from your colleagues in Product, Sales, Marketing and Finance functions. Maybe they don’t fully understand what IBP is or the huge benefits it can bring to ...