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1. www.AFPonline.org AFP Exchange I 49
INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING
How FP&A and treasury can
increase profits by five percent of sales
DEAN SORENSEN
ClosingIntegration
and ComplexityGaps
Research estimates the cost of complexity at up to five percent of sales1
for global
organizations. What’s more, most executives2
view internal complexities as a key barrier
to growth—one that needs to be better managed. By extension, complexity management
is a challenge that’s becoming of similar importance to Finance executives—especially those in
treasury and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) roles.
One major obstacle stands in the way of more effective complexity management: the processes
and structures that organizations use to plan, manage and govern their business. More
specifically, immature and outdated ones that obscure risk, reinforce functional silos, suboptimize
resource allocation and impede change. The underlying problem: inadequate integration.
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INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING continued
Exhibit 1: Despite technology investments, complex organizations have difficulty achieving interconnected
planning and performance management objectives, while also making these processes more effective and efficient
Integrating enterprise planning and performance
management (P&PM) processes is not a new idea. In fact,
it’s an explicit objective of many organizations. However, few
achieve mature processes that fully integrate strategy, finance
and operations. One reason is that legacy software tools don’t
always support them.
These experiences vary by sector, as each has its own
integration challenges. None more so than manufacturing—
the sector that institutionalized Integrated Business Planning
(IBP) as a business term. Like most global manufacturers, one
used a combination of sales and operations planning (S&OP)
and strategic corporate performance management (CPM)
tools to support IBP. While they were satisfied with basic
budgeting, reporting, consolidation and S&OP processes, they
have difficulty achieving more advanced and interconnected
objectives, like those shown in exhibit 1. And doing so,
while also making planning and performance management
processes more effective and efficient.
Stalled maturity
Such experiences are not uncommon – especially when
they involve the use of legacy P&PM tools. They expose one
reality for complex organizations. Their efforts to improve and
integrate strategic, financial and operational P&PM processes
have stalled. They’ve been unable to make meaningful
improvements to resource quantification and strategy and
profit alignment—two objectives that define the degree of
P&PM process integration and maturity. These terms are
summarized below and illustrated in exhibit 2.
1. Resource Quantification: Quickly and accurately
quantify financial and operational resources that support
desired revenue, profit, cost, service and quality targets,
across multiple functions and entities.
2. Profit & Strategy Alignment: Quickly reset targets and
rewards, while reallocating resources across functions
and entities to fund objectives and optimize operating
results and project portfolio ROI.
Exhibit 2: Global organizations often lack four critical capabilities that impair their ability to manage complexity,
thereby exposing common symptoms of processes and technologies that are not fully integrated
A. Resource Quantification
1. Integrated Scenarios: Inaccurate, incomplete and immature
planning models and processes that don’t expose financial
and operational risk
2. Connected Outcomes and Tradeoffs: Strategy and related
targets disconnected from financial and operational plans
and underlying assumptions
B. Profit & Strategy Alignment
3. Cross Functional Governance: Static and functionally-focused
budgets & rewards reinforce silos and promote decisions and
behaviors that undermine performance
4. Concurrent Processes: Fragmented and sequential processes
take too long, thereby impeding change responsiveness
ProfitandStrategyAlignment
Resource Quantification
Complexity
Gap
...While Making Process Effective and Efficient
Minimize
• Process and solution complexity
• Time to learn and master software
• Reliance on key individuals and consultants
• Time & cost to implement and update solutions
• Cost of both financial and operational processes
Maximize
• Process speed and flexibility
• Front line ownership of plans and targets
• Productivity of Finance and Operations Staff
Achieve Interconnected Objectives...
Improve
• Accuracy of profit and cash flow forecasts
• Scenario planning that provides risk visibility
• Tax and foreign currency exposure planning
• Cost, profit and working capital management
• Product & customer portfolio management
Establish
• Operationally-realistic rolling forecasts
• Profit-based sales and operations planning
• Cross functional coordination and alignment
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3. www.AFPonline.org AFP Exchange I 51
Despite investments in software and other management
approaches, capability gaps remain. This is depicted by
the difference between points X and Y on the chart. I call
this the “complexity gap.” While many factors comprise
this gap, I will focus on four. These factors expose
critical flaws in legacy P&PM software tools, while also
highlighting incremental capabilities supported by newer
and innovative ones.
Capability 1: Integrated scenarios
The first of these capabilities is integrated scenarios—
collaborative processes that simultaneously evaluate
the financial and operational impact of potential actions
or events, on all aspects of a business, across multiple
functions and legal entities. What distinguishes these
processes from traditional ones is that they are enabled
by integrated models that are shared by financial and
operational applications and processes.
Integrated models come in two forms, classic examples
of which come from the manufacturing sector. The first
and more basic type uses operational modelling logic
such as planning bills of materials and routings to drive
P&PM processes. The second and more advanced model
uses prescriptive analytics—tools with highly advanced
activity, supply chain and financial planning logic. For
example, these processes provide the means to quantify
how revenue, direct and indirect costs, enterprise capacity,
direct cash flows, working capital and foreign currency
exposure would be affected by the following events:
• Loss of a major customer
• Changes in demand volume or mix
• Replacing a domestic vendor with a foreign one
• Moving a major product launch forward or backwards.
The capabilities underlying such scenario planning
processes go well beyond those of legacy P&PM
software tools. The best evidence of this lies in cash flow
forecasting. It remains one of the least developed and most
problematic financial processes in global organizations.
One reason is that legacy P&PM tools aren’t equipped
to support them. They lack modeling capabilities that
can accurately adjust for changes in volume, mix and
operational constraints. What’s not always appreciated
is that the models needed for mature cash flow, working
capital and tax planning and forecasting are the same ones
that support mature supply chain planning processes.
The key point is that global organizations require
advanced planning models that can cope with complex
supply and demand relationships that often span multiple
functions and entities. What’s more, these models need
to be shared by finance and operations as part of a
single work flow, one that integrates rolling forecasts and
sales and operations planning. What results from such
integration are vastly superior scenario planning processes
that effectively identify and respond to risk.
Capability 2: Cross-functional governance
Who owns the performance of key business processes, like
order to cash? For most companies, the answer to this question
is not always obvious. In fact, in many cases, it’s no single
person. While you may have process coordinators that maintain
flow charts, procedures and measures, you don’t have process
owners with decision rights, ones that have the authority to
change processes and targets, while reallocating resources
across multiple functions and entities to fund these changes.
The foundation for such ownership lies in the ability
to provide business process cost information that people
believe is accurate. At a minimum, this means that actual
and budgeted process costs must be always reconciled to
all financial records. This also means that P&PM processes
must also incorporate business process management. In other
words, they must support what I call matrix planning. This
capability is beyond what legacy P&PM tools support.
The absence of this capability is one of the primary reasons
why only twenty percent of organizations achieve effective
cross functional alignment3
and why seventy percent4
fail to
achieve improvement targets related to lean and six sigma.
After all, you can’t govern what you can’t plan!
Capability 3: Connected outcomes and tradeoffs
Optimizing enterprise performance is a key role for senior
executives. But do you have a formal mechanism for doing
so? Tradeoffs between cost, quality and service govern
virtually every aspect of enterprise performance. Yet most
lack the ability to explicitly manage them. Going back to the
order to cash example, most organizations don’t explicitly:
• Manage tradeoffs between targets for cost per order,
perfect order fulfillment and days in receivables
• Translate these targets into the activities and tasks that
comprise processes, across functions and entities
• Embed tradeoff target-setting and translation process
into financial and operational planning and forecasting.
Who owns the performance
of key business processes,
like order to cash? For most
companies, the answer to this
question is not always obvious.
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Fully integrated processes enable organizations to explicitly
translate balanced scorecard objectives and targets into the
processes that deliver customer value propositions. This
translation process drives strategy execution by exposing key
assumptions that underlie the targets comprising strategic
objectives. What’s more, it enables cost structures to more
effectively adjust to changing market conditions.
The absence of such capabilities is one of the primary
reasons why complex organizations have difficulty
managing costs. In fact, 90 percent5
fail to sustain cost
reductions for more than 3 years.
Capability 4: Concurrent processes
While technology has certainly improved P&PM
processes, cycle times remain long. Technology-enabled
integration of work flows and prescriptive analytics does
three things to address this:
• Model ownership can be distributed to front
line employees
• Non-value added activities caused by fragmented
processes can be eliminated
• Planning activities can be done concurrently, rather
than sequentially.
The absence of this capability is one of the primary
reasons that organizations experience difficulty executing
effective sales and operations planning and rolling forecast
processes within monthly cycles. By collapsing cycle time,
they can address this issue, while also enabling rapid
and effective mid-course corrections. In so doing, these
processes can play a pivotal role in enabling enterprise
agility objectives.
Redefining full Integration
These four business capabilities comprise the key
differences between fully and partially integrated P&PM
processes. They also highlight the importance of
technology innovations that enable greater process maturity.
More specifically, how they support three things that legacy
P&PM tools do not:
• Combine strategic, financial and operational
applications into a single P&PM process
• Execute these processes and manage performance
horizontally across functions and entities
• Embed prescriptive analytics into these processes
and applications.
The persistence of these capability gaps exposes one
reality: P&PM processes that are supported by legacy tools
don’t always provide the basis for effective complexity
management, either on their own or when combined with
others as part of a process. This is because they are based
on outdated views about what full integration entails, why it
is important and what it is worth!
While newer technologies address these gaps, three
factors limit their use. First, they aren’t well known, as
most are less than 5 years old. Second, they don’t fit neatly
into existing categories used by technology analysts, like
S&OP, strategic CPM and Business Intelligence. Third, and
following from the second, organizations continue to design
P&PM processes and buy software to meet functional needs,
not enterprise ones.
Capitalizing on opportunity
Fully integrated P&PM processes enable step-change
improvements to how organizations plan, manage and
govern their business. By extension, they also enable
similar improvements to the ability of finance functions to
drive business value as a more effective business partner.
In the process, they address key challenges of treasury and
FP&A executives.
Capitalizing on these process innovations cannot be done
in silos. It requires an enterprise-wide approach to P&PM
process definition, standardization and governance – one
that focuses on these four business capabilities and the
technologies that can support them.
One way to organize these efforts is through a center of
excellence that coordinates these activities across strategy,
finance and operations. Those leading the COE will need to
look beyond functionally-driven biases to objectively assess
the opportunities and risks associated with technology
innovations. They will be in the best position to leverage
integrated processes to address challenges of `all stakeholders,
especially complexity-related ones of senior executives.
Sources:
1. AT Kearney, How much does complexity really cost?, 2007
2. Harvard Business Review, The greatest barriers to growth, according
to executives, Zook, May 2016
3. Harvard Business Review, Why strategy execution unravels – and
what to do about it, Sull & Homkes, March 2015
4. Alix Partners, Survey on the effectiveness of manufacturing-
improvement programs, June 2011
5. Corporate Executive Board, Dynamic Market-Paced Resource
Allocation, 2008
Complexity Definition:
Complexity costs come in two basic forms: external and internal.
External sources are those the company can’t control, like regulations
associated with operating in multiple countries. Internal complexity
– the focus of this article – is driven by the number of products,
customers, suppliers, processes and entities within an organization.
More specifically, by the degree of variability, interdependecy and non
linear relationships between them. Internal complexity costs, therefore,
are those resulting from decisions (and non-decisions) that (knowingly
or unknowingly) may improve performance of one part of a business, at
the expense of another.
INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING continued