In two articles, based on the recent webinar "XP&A in action: Enhancing FP&A Agility with Supply Chain Planning", the author discusses the future of xP&A and supply chain planning. This second article focuses on autonomous planning and the finance professional's role.

In this series of blogs, based on the recent webinar “XP&A in action: Enhancing FP&A Agility with Supply Chain Planning”, the author discusses the future of xP&A and supply chain planning. This article focuses on integrated planning and decision-making.

Many experts agree that IBP has a monthly check and balance with the budget and the strategic intentions of a business. Therefore, a well-executed IBP cycle will provide monthly visibility and measures progress against business objectives and strategy in the long-term horizon.

This article describes the four stages of Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

The future of IBP will be to plan across the whole value chain. A final step in IBP scope will be to understand and incorporate constraints to create a global view.

In this article, Niels van Hove argues that while effective integrated FP&A can thrive in the right company culture, the FP&A process itself can influence and shape that culture. He calls for FP&A leaders to articulate goals that include clear expectations on behaviours. Doing so will not only improve effectiveness but also enable FP&A to play an active role in improving employee attitudes and satisfaction.

The statistics reveal that 60%-90% of strategy implementations fail and only 14% of executives are satisfied with the execution of a strategy. This article introduces a framework to assess your company’s strategy execution readiness, in order to align leaders around how to bridge your strategy to execution gaps. It also provides a free strategy execution checklist to assess your readiness.