By Stephen McGrath. As we discussed in Part 1 by Justin Stafford, 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’ […]
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 […]
It was very exciting to see so many users; around 50; attend our recent user group in Melbourne. Held at the Platinum building in Southbank on the 52nd floor, those who attended were treated with a clear day in Melbourne to take in the uninterrupted city, park and bay views. Once again Yvonne from McCormick did […]
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 […]
With the recent increase in users in New Zealand, we decided to make it easier for our New Zealand users to contact us. Our New Zealand Customers now have a dedicated phone number to contact us. This is just one of the new things we are implementing at Blueshift to ensure as we grow, your […]
Blueshift, one of the truly fastest growing IBP solution providers globally, unveiled the evolution of its brand identity today, including a new modern and simplified logo look and feel for branded communications and experiences. The ability to thrive in a digital age as well as position Blueshift as a forward-thinking, customer experience focused technology […]
Blueshift will be attending the POI European Promotion Optimization Summit in Amsterdam from May 9 – 11. Blueshift, a leading IBP solution provider in the Asia Pacific region; are excited by the opportunity to meet with forward thinking companies in Europe and discussing how we can help solve their complex business problems. We are further excited […]
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 […]
Do you celebrate the start of project with your team? At Blueshift we do; and why not? We believe in starting a project on a high, and finishing on one too; so for us it was simple. Our valued customer Peters Ice Cream recently gave the green light for a new project, so we got […]
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 […]
