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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

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Many which I’ve highlighted over the years in blogs and articles. In the end, IBP is a philosophy, or belief system that strives for transparency, near perfect integration and alignment, both horizontal (between functions, BUs, even companies) and vertical (between strategy, planning and execution). And we sometimes already do.

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

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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. In this article, Niels argues that these technological advances can lead to either (a) planning-process and decision automation or (b) planning and decision augmentation.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

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However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. Introduction.