Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Achieve your business goals with Integrated Business Planning
Align your demand, supply, budget, and business targets towards one common goal, maximizing overall business performance and profitability. As your operational complexity deepens, RELEX simplifies cross-functional collaboration and creates effective, adaptive responses to market changes, customer demands, and supply chain variations.
Align on one unified platform
Take the next step in business planning — align your top-down strategic business planning and operational supply chain planning together on one unified platform. RELEX combines our world-class forecasting and planning granularity with high-level financial planning so sales and marketing, supply chain, and finance stakeholders can align using one set of data for collaborative planning and decision-making.
Key features
Integrated Business Planning software
Using one set of data on a single platform ensures that sales and operations can communicate with finance, though the data may come from different tools. RELEX has the built-in analytical capability to drive operational planning on one system.
Traditional planning processes use data that can be weeks out of date by the time the monthly planning process is done. RELEX brings accurate, near real-time data to the IBP process, allowing potential supply chain disruptions, constraints, and last-minute changes to be factored into the entire planning cycle.
Test various “what-if” scenarios using advanced analytics to make informed decisions based on potential outcomes and risks. Manufacturers and food processing companies can use scenario planning to seamlessly tackle highly complex decision-making for the most profitable outcomes.
Traditional planning takes weeks to gather, prepare, and coordinate data from multiple systems. RELEX provides one unified set of master data that is always up to date, allowing stakeholders to focus on long-term planning horizons while using one built-in analytical system to drive the operational plans. Current, accurate data allows you to be faster in making planning decisions.
Benefits
Reduce planning silos with one set of relevant data
RELEX IBP combines the granular, detailed optimization of the supply chain with financial planning and profit optimization on one unified platform, to help companies with even the most complex planning, improve business performance and profitability.
Enhance collaboration across your operations
Decision making can be slow with siloed and unconnected planning across separate teams, and in different systems. RELEX enables easier collaboration by providing a unified view of demand and supply, combining a global demand plan, promotions, new products and assortment changes with supply capacities, constraints, and inventories.
Proven experience with food production complexities
RELEX has proven experience with its demand forecasting capabilities and understanding the intricacies of manufacturing and food production processes. Combine the leading forecasting and replenishment tool with RELEX production optimization capabilities to conquer all business planning needs.
One source of truth for all stakeholders
Use RELEX to reduce planning silos and decision latency with the most up-to-date, accurate data. RELEX IBP provides a single source of truth for all stakeholders; one relevant data set for your teams to access, allowing consensus building, agility and collaboration across finance, sales & marketing and operations planning.
Resources you might be interested in
We’ve accumulated a wealth of supply chain & retail expertise from our 1,500+ planning specialists.
Retail sales & operations execution (S&OE): 4 foundational capabilities for managing disruptions
An effective S&OE process ensures retailers meet their sales plans without suffering from poor product availability or costly operational firefighting.
Case study: Finsbury Food Group
Acknowledging the imperative to harness their scale and facilitate sustained growth, Finsbury prioritized enhanced supply chain visibility and seamless integration of future acquisitions as they sought a new supply chain planning solution.
Supply chain optimization for manufacturers: It’s mathematics, not magic
This whitepaper uses common planning scenarios to explain how supply chain optimization works and why companies looking to streamline operations and maximize profits should consider switching to this technology.
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