Oliver Wight IBP Powered by Board | Integrated Business Planning software

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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.

Realize your organization’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.

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Packaged for rapid time to value

Oliver Wight consulting and education

Industry-leading expertise implemented by thousands of organizations.

Board Intelligent Planning Platform

Preconfigured to meet 70% of your IBP requirements from the start - with the flexibility to customize.

Specialist implementation services

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

How you can benefit:

Optimize business outcomes, maximize profit, and reduce risk.

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

Enhance your IBP process

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

Accelerate your IBP

Rapid implementation option gets you up and running at lightning speed.
Deploy Board in the same timeframe as the process education and design.
Ongoing Oliver Wight health check support post implementation.

Leverage capabilities and features you require

Core Capabilities

Track performance versus the business plan and strategy, analyze complex data, and build and manage scenarios across portfolio, demand, and supply.
Understand project volume, revenue, cost, and profitability across the business.
Visualize 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 organizational 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.
Customize out-of-the-box standard visualizations 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.
Customizable capsules.
Complete planning control in an easy, unified environment.
Advanced AL and ML.
Predictive planning and forecasting.

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.

Brought to you by a powerful partnership

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Global leader servicing over 75% of the F500
50 years of transformational excellence
UK’s Leading Management Consultants (Financial Times 2021 - 23)
Consultancy.uk Top Consultancy Firm 2023

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2022 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM Leader for Financial Planning Software
Microsoft Partner of the Year, ISV Category, Local Swiss Award
G2 Crowd Leader in 15 Categories
TrustRadius Top Rated in 8 Categories

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