Planning and Analytics Blog – Board International

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
How can banking and financial services transform the finance function and empower finance leaders?

Historically, finance professionals have been typecast as corporate “bean counters” – purely operating as controllers of expenditure and budgets. However, in a modern setting, the...

Neil Shah

#banking, #finance, #FP&A, #office of finance

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 3 min read
Why digital leaders are using Board for operations and supply chain

Run annually, the Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business. They remind us that the modern world...

Pietro Castelli

#burberry, #operations, #planning, #retail, #supply chain, #ventana

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 3 min read
Making your Supply Chain more sustainable

Businesses are focussing on Supply Chain sustainability, not just because of COP26 but also because it matters to bottom-line profitability and shareholder and marketplace perception. Sustainability is becoming one of the central axes...

Dave Food

#decision making, #supply chain, #sustainability

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 4 min read
Connecting human capital and financial data at MLB Network

Considered a best-practice approach in the modern-day, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) can prove a crucial benefit for businesses ready to adopt it. Representing a rigorous, coordinated, and agile method, IBP can...

Pietro Castelli

#customer story, #FP&A, #HR, #IBP, #integrated business planning

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 3 min read
Visibility through data: A solution for Supply Chain

Visibility is the operative word for extended Supply Chain actors, reporting on the Supply Chain decisions that enable companies to function more effectively; namely, all...

Dave Food

#data, #supply chain

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 3 min read
Financial planning and controlling of multimodal freight transport at VTG

Solid logistics planning is fundamental to success in freight transport. It is always annoying when transport capacities are not used, for example, on the return...

Sandra Bartl

#Self-service analytics

BI, Analytics & Reporting
- 3 min read
Five ways the modern CFO can spearhead smarter decision-making

Today, businesses realize the necessity of having a CFO who can drive digital transformation and spearhead smarter decision-making. Significant events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Pietro Castelli

#CFO, #decision making, #digital transformation, #raconteur

Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
- 2 min read
Supply Chain moves center stage

Previously when I have explained that I work in Supply Chain to friends and family, it was often followed with, but what is Supply Chain?...

Dave Food

#supply chain

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