Integrated Business Planning - Fact Or Fiction?

Presented by Bill Dubois, Business Consultant, Kinaxis

No matter which S&OP model we adopt – Gartner, Oliver Wight, Wallace & Stahl – they all stress the collaborative nature of working across different functions and different levels of granularity, therefore integrated. Others emphasize the need to have Finance involved in S&OP and to have executive participation and sign-off, hence business planning. All the process consultants emphasize that S&OP adoption is a matter of maturity, and Gartner has pointed out that the very few companies have evolved beyond stage 2 (Anticipating) in their 4 stage maturity model of Reacting, Anticipating, Collaborating, and Orchestrating.

So what is the barrier? It isn’t technology, but trust.

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Integrated Business Planning - Fact Or Fiction?

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Kinaxis delivers a cloud-based solution at the heart of planning and response management for value chain operations. Large manufacturing companies with complex supply chain networks and volatile business environments rely on RapidResponse for collaborative planning, continuous performance monitoring, and coordinated response to plan variances across multiple areas of the business. With RapidResponse, enterprises are able to attain a control tower solution that encompasses a full spectrum of supply chain related business processes, including such functions as: S&OP, supply and capacity planning, demand planning, and supplier collaboration. As a result, Kinaxis customers have replaced disparate planning and performance management tools and are realizing significant operations performance breakthroughs. From a single product, customers are able to make both long-term and real-time demand and supply balancing decisions quickly, collaboratively, and in line with the shared business objectives of multiple stakeholders.