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Best Practices
for Your Journey to
Integrated Business Planning

During the past decade, Steelwedge has developed purpose-built
solutions for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Now Steelwedge
is leading the evolution to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) --
connecting business strategy with operations planning and execution.

In today's volatile business environment, agile decision-making is mandatory. True IBP based on S&OP delivers a clear line of sight from plan to performance to profit.

Here are selected videos, white papers, newsletters, articles and book recommendations, the best of business and academic thought on the evolving practices of S&OP leading to IBP.

"Master Class" Video Series

Tune in here to watch leading analysts, academics, authors and
industry practitioners discuss the latest thinking on IBP and S&OP best
practices and case studies. Tune in >

IBP and S&OP White Papers, Presentations,
Webinars and Newsletters

Go here to hear, read and learn more about best practice experience
and ideas at each phase of the journey.

IBP and S&OP 101 Primer: Step-by-Step Walk-Through

Integrated Business Planning based on Sales & Operations Planning
creates a set of decision-making processes to balance demand and
supply, to integrate financial planning and operational planning, and to
link high-level strategic plans with day-to-day operations.
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Steelwedge integrated sales, operations and finance planning solutions provide the “shock absorbers” to recognize, recalibrate and respond in a volatile environment. Business agility and resiliency start with Steelwedge for a clear line of sight from plan to performance to profit.

Collaborative planning solutions to support and improve an agile business process: linking the company, its customers and partners.
A single platform for Integrated Business Planning: powerful tools for a single, actionable view of sales, operations and finance information.
Cloud-based technology: ensures speed, elasticity and value.
Steelwedge customers ROI includes 70% greater efficiency, 5% margin lift, 30% better forecast accuracy, 25% greater customer service and 15% less inventory costs.

The Steelwedge cloud-based IBP platform powers better business agility with real-time "what if" scenario planning and modeling, business analytics and reporting. Companies at all stages of Sales & Operations Planning rely on Steelwedge technology and deep domain expertise to support their journey to link business strategy and operations.

End Spreadsheet Confusion. While SCM, ERP and CRM systems have improved efficiencies, these systems were not designed to work together. In fact, they contribute to a sea of siloed big data, that large organizations are increasingly challenged to cut through. So, most companies default to a collection of disparate spreadsheets for executive-level planning. Yet, spreadsheets lack the data management, analytics and process automation needed to reconcile and align functional plans to create one view and drive effective executive decision-making.

Collaborative Planning Gets Results. C-level executives depend on Steelwedge for sales forecasting and planning, consensus forecasting, balancing demand and supply planning, "what-if" modeling, rough cut scenario planning, connecting S&OP with financial planning and measuring performance against revenue and customer service targets. Integrated Business Planning pays: most customers save $5-$10 million per $1 billion in revenues.

Steelwedge Solutions, Services and Best Practices Drive Time to Value. Based on recognized industry S&OP best practices, the Steelwedge IBP Platform is backed by Executive S&OP, S&OP Sales, S&OP Operations and S&OP Collaboration. Steelwedge Services include an Integrated Business Planning Assessment, Strategic Consulting, Business Planning Improvement, Steelwedge University, Technology Implementation and Outsourced Planning Services.