A different kind of episode for the season wrap up: Today Mark Golley will be the host and Jonathan Fogarty, new to the world of IBP, will be the guest sharing learnings and insights gained hosting the podcast series.

It’s all about the process: IBP and ITP processes are at the center of this final episode. Adam and Mark discuss how some customers are leveraging SAP IBP’s capabilities to help them progress on their process maturity journey; Other customers already have a mature IBP process in place and the right people engaged but still need to embed ownership and governance to secure process adherence and resilience.

When Lion first built SAP IBP and started to build the teams’ capability, the most common question asked was “where is the undo button?”… With everything MS Office related there is an undo button but in the context of the SAP IBP excel add-in, once the save button is pushed, there is no undo… or is there? Mark Golley tells us how Lion leveraged SAP IBP simulations, scenarios, and versions combined with permission filters to safeguard end user activities and goes on to highlight how scenario and versions have enabled powerful what-if planning simulations in SAP IBP.

Integrated Business Planning is a journey. Our guests Angela Olson (Cargill), Dustin Demmin (Nature’s way) and Mark Golley (Lion Pty) explain why organizations should ensure their IBP investment is not limited to a project "set of forget" delivery, but instead should ensure their solution keeps adjusting to the way business operations adapt to the market. As sponsors, key process owners and architects, we can all recognize and influence accordingly where it feels right for the business and where we see value can be gained from implementing new IBP functionality or enhancing IBP models and processes.

Mark Golley shares the view that business problems are best solved by business people; every team member has its own motivation and drivers: successful team leadership hinges on understanding these interests and aspirations and articulating the change value proposition through the prism of the team member’s own values, which triggers curiosity and engagement.

Balancing business expectations with technical and budget constraint, there is no silver bullet. Hear Mark Golley and Adrian Goffin discuss challenges of project life and how Lion and Accenture focused on business outcomes and value delivery, building up resilience and adaptability.

Mark Golley tells us about real life examples from the Lion IBP project, breaking down the delivery in smaller milestone, each delivering meaningful business value to the organization. Thinking big, but grabbing the low hanging fruit early in the project helps progressively embedding the change, celebrating every value achievement along the way.

SAP IBP customers enjoy the powerful capabilities of the Excel add-in and leverage the familiarity of this UI to accelerate enablement and adoption for many supply chain planning activities. In this episode Mark Golley and Matt McCall will explain why the Excel UI is so successful with planners. Our guests will also talk about other use cases best covered by a different type of UI and will ask Patrick Weber how these will be covered in SAP IBP.

User adoption must be at the center of everything we do. Talking in “plain”, non-technical language to business users increases engagement and drives better business outcomes and a better overall user experience. This session is about re-framing the “technical” IBP language to something that is relatable, simple, smart and suitable for your business.

Welcome to the Integrated Business Planning Experience Podcast Series. I'm your host, Jonathan Fogarty and in this episode, I’ll be talking to Mark Golley and Benny Christensen about SAP IBP Demand Planning Capabilities, the functionalities most customers use extensively and those that deserve to be looked into. How do you make the most of a Demand Planning tool in a world where all recent demand signals have been so heavily disrupted? Our guest will be talking about their experience managing the demand plan in this difficult time and will be sharing their view on how the Machine Learning approach of SAP IBP Demand Sensing can help with a new way of constructing some of the demand plan.