Is Your IBP Designed to Hit Strategic Targets?
After 8 years implementing, coaching businesses and designing Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes I have accumulated a long list of common challeng... Read More...
Managing Optimism Bias In Demand Forecasting
I recently watched a Ted Talk by Professor Tali Sharot, a specialist researcher in Experimental Psychology at University College London. She described how o... Read More...
The Advancements In Disease Forecasting That Can Revolutionize Business Forecasting
On the IBF On Demand podcast, I recently spoke to a real innovator doing great things in the forecasting space. He comes from a disease forecastin... Read More...
The Rise of S&OE: The Key To Planning Execution
You can’t turn on the TV, open your internet browser or read a business periodical without seeing something new about corporations missing their objectives ... Read More...
Creating New Pricing Models For Inflationary Environments
Retailers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, and their suppliers are arguably having the toughest year in decades as they struggle to understand changi... Read More...
How Global S&OP Works
In the last four decades or so, more and more companies have gone global. With that, the structure of the S&OP process has changed, though the key objec... Read More...
4 Tips For Driving Success In Remote S&OP
Last week I presented two opposing views on whether S&OP/IBP can be done remotely (see that article here). Personally, I don’t think remote working is o... Read More...
Does Remote S&OP Work? Two Opposing Viewpoints
As much as I hate the term, we are in a new normal, Remote working has changed how we work, and it has had big changes for S&OP/IBP. Given demand planni... Read More...
These 2 Concepts Dictate Whether S&OP Implementation Will Succeed Or Fail
Research carried out by EY in 2019 suggested that more than 90% of senior executives were making or planning to make risk management and Business Continuity... Read More...
Interest Rates Are Changing Consumer Behavior – Here’s What Demand Planners Must Do
As of this writing, Central Banks’ efforts to reduce inflation are underway. Central Banks around the globe are increasing their interest rates in response ... Read More...