Any company conducting true Integrated Business Planning (IBP) will have a single consensus forecast across all functions: sales forecasting and budgeting, commercial planning, revenue management, and trade promotion management. This is often referred to as a ‘one number forecast’. The goal of this ‘one number forecast’ is to have a single set of numbers driving the […]
We live in a world where people are used to accessing and updating information in real time and with user experiences that are fast and fluid. The technology now exists to, economically, enable this kind of experience for enterprise systems like Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tools even where data volumes are huge. Google serves over 3.5 billion searches per day with […]
I recall being told a number of years ago “Ignore your customers at your peril”; something that has stuck with me. When building a great software solution, one the most important thing a solution provider can do is listen to their users. Every user will have the “best feature” that you just must put in […]
With our next user group in a just over months’ time, I recall being asked recently by an associate why would a solution provider run a user group? My answer was simple; we don’t, it is a user group ran by the users for the users. When we first set out to 15 months ago […]
When implementing a new solution such as Blueshift ONE, many companies strive for best practice; but what is best practice? Best Practice is generally defined as a method that produces a superior result so striving for best practice is a good thing. When looking at the best practice to be applied to any business, it […]
