Whitepaper: What is Integrated Business Planning and why is it better than S&OP?

All Supply Chain business leaders want their planning to support strategic alignment and help maximize profit. Many organizations use some form of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), but does it really achieve these essential outcomes? Or does it fall short in effectiveness, execution and scope?

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a business-focused, strategic evolution of S&OP that will bring serious benefits to the business – especially the bottom line.

Read this informative whitepaper to:

• learn about the difference between S&OP and IBP
• understand important S&OP shortcomings and how IBP addresses them
• gain insight into what it takes to implement IBP successfully
• find out what the analysts say about companies that have already implemented IBP