Oliver Wight Asia Pacific - White Papers

Many companies that have embarked on an Integrated Business Planning implementation still find senior managers being dragged into short-term tactical issues and problem-solving. Integrated Tactical Planning helps you manage your short-term planning horizon so leaders can concentrate on the organization's long-term strategic plans.

Companies have been improving business performance for almost three decades through Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), but not all have evolved from fundamental demand and supply balancing. Doing so drives even greater operational and financial gains. This podcast explores the real benefits of transitioning from S&OP to Integrated Business Planning.

Oliver Wight has developed a series of five questions – simple ‘must-haves’, which can be used in each of the five Integrated Business Planning review meetings to ensure they address the key issues facing the business in a standardized way, validate the plans and make required decisions. In short, it provides a means of pushing the S&OP process to become more than just ‘forecasting’, and help it mature into the series of valuable business meetings required by IBP.

In the dynamic business environment of today, organisations need to have an effective tool for managing risk and contingency. Oliver Wight Asia Pacific's Mike Reed, talks through some real-life examples of how accounting for vulnerabilities and opportunities within the monthly Integrated Business Planning process can drive an organisation towards its business plan, even in the most volatile market.

There has rarely been an event such as the current Covid-19 pandemic to test the resilience of a company’s performance. Oliver Wight Asia Pacific spoke to many business executives across diverse industries over twelve months of the pandemic to understand if their Integrated Business Planning process was helping them navigate these turbulent times. In this podcast, our partner Peter Metcalfe talks us through the findings.