ASCI Masterclass on Integrated Tactical Planning
Oliver Wight Managing Partner, Mike Reed, explains more about ITP
– the essential process for regularly re-aligning product, demand, and supply plans in the short term.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- Why a weekly process is important
- What symptoms suggest poor weekly processes
- The difference between weekly process (ITP) and monthly process (IBP)
- The time zone does the weekly process manages
- Essential requirements for a robust weekly process
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INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING
- Constant firefighting
- A misaligned management team
- Problems hitting the financial plan
- A painful budgeting process
- Service issues
- Excessive inventory
- Excessive rework
- Departments and sites working in silos
- No single set of numbers to run the business
- No time to look at strategy
- Poor deployment and execution of the strategic plan
- Poor employee engagement
DEMAND
MANAGEMENT
- A struggle to hit sales revenue and margin plans
- Problems seeing where growth will come from
- Poor forecast accuracy
- A need to build trust in the sales forecast
- Lack of clarity on who owns sales and marketing plans
- A constant scramble to hit the monthly sales plan
PRODUCT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
- A scramble to launch products on time
- A tendency to miss launch dates and key project milestones
- A problem meeting business cases for new products
- Poor clarity on ownership of the product portfolio
- A need to reduce new product time to market
- A growing product list with nothing ever removed from it
INTEGRATED TACTICAL PLANNING
- Constant firefighting and chaos
- A feeling of going from one crisis to another
- A lack of understanding of the cause of changes to plans
- Misalignment and tension between departments
- Poor service levels
- High costs
- Frustrated employees
- A lack of linkage between IBP plans and execution
