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.
Niels Van Hove
Niels is a consultant, coach and author. He has 20+ years of experience in supply-chain and business planning and is accredited in coaching skills to help companies achieve behaviours that improve business performance.
He has published many articles on company culture, strategy and business planning and is also an author and publisher of children’s books. He is an advisory board member of the International Institute of Forecasting quarterly magazine; Foresight.
Author's Articles
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.