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What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Integrated planning incorporates supply chain planning, demand planning, and demand forecasts so the company can quickly assess the impact on inventory levels, supply chain logistics, production plans, and customer service capacity. Making up the IBP framework are six key pillars: 1.

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Strategic Procurement: What Is Is and Why It’s Essential for Business Resilience 

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Strategic procurement, or procurement strategic planning, is a data-driven process that helps businesses align procurement and business goals. The result is greater supply chain predictability, more accurate decision-making, and better business agility. What is strategic procurement?

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IBM Consulting accelerates the future of FinOps collaboration with Apptio

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Organizations need simplified, integrated and automated solutions to help optimize IT spend, improve operations and drive greater financial returns. IBM Consulting is uniquely positioned to provide exceptional FinOps and TBM services, from strategic planning to operating model implementation and managed services.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™! An Interview with Skip Boothby!

Supply Chain Game Changer

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we are introducing a new “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. My start in supply chain was a bit unknowing at the time.