BIP & S&OP

 Student’s Name: Judith Gonzalez Cardona


NUA: 117532


Answer the following study guide questions.


  • What is “Integrated Business Planning” (IBP)?

    • It is a way to coordinate monthly business reviews, it helps businesses work together in a synchronized manner in order to operate smoothly.

  • What is “Sales and Operations Planning” (S&OP)?

    • It refers to an integrated planning process that aligns demand, supply, and financial planning; it is designed to support decision making in the executive field and approves a feasible and profitable material and financial plan. (Oracle, 2020)

  • What are the similarities between IBP and S&OP? Mention and describe them.

    • . IBP | S&OP

      • They are driven by business strategies

      • Rely on data for support

      • Align forecasts with the needs of the company

      • Look for an increasement in accuracy

  • What are the differences between IBP and S&OP? Mention and describe them.

    • . IBP | S&OP

    • Starts with financial forecasts Rooted in the supply chain

    • Drives the organization forward Focuses on aligning

production with sales volumes

  • . x Cannot  align with financial figures

  • Primary production planning process x

  • Facilitates collaboration x

(Riverlogic, 2020)

  • How does the IBP process work? Describe in detail.

    • Five phases

      • Sense: builds a demand plan at a local and global company level to see how plants need to respond to demands for the products and services. 

      • Shape: develops a forward looking and optimized demand plan with supply to see how the mismatches may affect your customer.

      • Collaborate: builds a strong alignment with local, regional and global teams to improve demand plans and supply forecasts.

      • Integrate: it brings everyone together to work with the same numbers and goals in order to produce a single optimized plan.

      • Orchestrate: publishing an optimized plan and adapt it to the changes  that might come with slight or big variations in demand is the last phase.

(Demand Solutions, 2017)

  • What are the challenges of IBP?

    • It focuses on creating an integrated work environment, this can be hard because markets can sometimes be unpredictable and the chains of supply need to adapt to rapid change - they need to be resilient; in order to achieve this the margin of unplanned events needs to decrease, this is a big obstacle to overcome since it can never fully be eliminated (events like black swans make it impossible).

  • Which are the most common difficulties/problems when implementing IBP? Mention them and provide examples.

    • The most common difficulties tend to be with keeping up stock - in a new system that tries to coordinate everything it is a challenge to respond rapidly to the changes that a forecast may have, this affects our inventory, therefore shortage or overstocking can be common in the early stages.

  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of IBP?

    • Advantages

      • It helps accountability

      • Drives collaboration

      • Increases accuracy

      • Forecast accuracy

        • Safety stock reduction

        • Destruction/write offs savings

        • Improves service levels


      • Better networking capital

      • Positive impact on gross margin

    • Disadvantages

      • Implementing it can increase stress in the workplace

      • Long term results

      • High levels of capacitation needed 

  • What is the importance of IBP nowadays?

    • If you are getting information from multiple sources without any order, it can be hard to get an accurate forecast and without one the expenses of the company will go up - this is a direct result of companies not knowing how much they should produce and therefore having too much or too little inventory therefore disrupting the chain of supply.

References

  1. Demand Solutions, 2017. Integrated business planning: Five Steps Beyond S&OP. Retrieved January 4, 2022, from: https://www.demandsolutions.com/ds-blog/abstracts/integrated-business-planning-five-steps-beyond-s-and-op/

  2. Oracle, 2020. What is Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)?. Retrieved January 4, 2022, from: https://www.oracle.com/scm/what-is-sales-operations-planning/

  3. Riverlogic, 2020. What’s the difference between S&OP and IBP. Retrieved January 4, 2022, from: https://www.riverlogic.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-sop-and-ibp

Comentarios

  1. Cinthia Segura Pérez4 de enero de 2022 a las 18:52

    I like your answers, especially the last one, because I consider that the distortion of information can have consequences that affect the development of projects. You mentioned the supply chain, however, it also affects the rest of the departments, for example, a bad budget by the finance area can affect the purchase of machinery for the production area.

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  2. Cecilia Massat4 de enero de 2022 a las 19:00

    The part where you mention that it is important to keep a count of what you have so as not to overproduce or leave customers dissatisfied because you do not have the necessary units to not leave them dissatisfied, seems accurate to me.

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  3. The new business of virtual currencies by Christofer6 de enero de 2022 a las 12:47

    I think that in the question What are the challenges of IBP, it focuses on the measurement, monitoring and results of activities, also integrating processes.

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