Integrated business planning

So we got, we got extra time, man.

I want to ask you about integrated business planning, Dira.

Now we've been talking about IBP for decades, I think.

I'm not sure when it first formally came out, but a lot of organizations still struggle to truly integrate commercial, financial, operational decision-making.

Two-part questionnaire for you.

What does world-class IBP look like today? And going back to AI, how is AI changing what IBP can become over the next several years?

Yeah, it's great.

As a planning practitioner for over 16 years, this one is close to home for me.

In today's environment, trade cannot be treated as a back-office compliance function.

It must be integrated into supply chain design, S&OP and IBP processes, capital investment decisions, and risk management frameworks.

Turning complexity into advantage.

As North America redefines its trade dynamics, Mexico remains a critical manufacturing and logistics hub.

When we have a stock policy model that can be pretty complicated and advanced to say, okay, what are the different service levels? What should be on stock? What are the criteria for that? It's a critical component.

All of these different criteria that we have all automated in the IBP product.

But then you need to be able to understand quite fast.

So why does it get 20 on this specific part or item number? And there the AI insight is super relevant because then you can just ask, okay, so why does it get 20? That's because it's actually hit by these two different rules.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So actually, we use the embedded AI just to improve, once again, our IBP process, or as I know, P process.

So you can call it standard process we have.