Integrated Business Planner™

Integrated Business Planner™ helps consumer goods companies financially optimize their supply chains, moving from simple demand supply match to integrated business planning, even under rapidly changing business conditions.

 

With Integrated Business Planner companies can create a full-fledged, forward-looking financial plan on a weekly basis, including: P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow. They can also identify critical areas where plans are short of targets; the root causes underlying any variance; and course correction actions that can be taken to bridge the gaps between target and plan, as well as opportunities to exceed target. Integrated Business Planner helps companies ensure that all actions are balanced by performing holistic impact analysis.

Integrated Business Planner helps consumer goods companies:

• Import demand and supply plans and create weekly proforma financials
• Understand the true connection between demand volatility and its impact on net income by modeling cause effect relationships instead of assuming linear relationships like standard costing
• Highlight the areas of non-performance applicable to the role of the user (depending on whether they are an executive, business user, or a planner)
• Drill down to understand the root causes of non-performance and potential areas for improvement.
• Perform what -if analysis to explore alternative ways of bridging the gap between target and plan
• Collaborate with others in the organization (sales, operations, finance, planning)
• Publish the plan back into the system of record

 

Learn how Beaulieu Group improved business performance with Integrated Business Planner, download the case study.