Integrated business planning (IBP) is a business management process that aims to align strategic, operational, and financial planning into a single, integrated process.

Integrated business planning (IBP) is used by organizations to integrate various functions and align strategic, operational, and financial planning. Key aspects often included in IBP frameworks are:

1. Functional Integration: IBP aims to integrate departments within an organization and align them functionally. It seeks to create a unified planning process that connects functions such as research and development (R&D), manufacturing, supply chain management, marketing, and sales, incorporating inputs from each to form a common business plan.

2. Harmonization of Planning Cycles:: IBP involves synchronizing planning activities across multiple timelines, aligning monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles. It uses a framework designed to address discrepancies arising from separate starting points and data sets to create a unified schedule.

3. Integrating across multiple Planning Horizons:: IBP facilitates collaboration between sales and marketing teams to capture demand and create a consensus plan for the short and medium term.

4. Medium and Long-Term Financial Planning:: IBP aims to align demand forecasts with pricing data and inputs from marketing teams to develop financial plans and predict financial outcomes.

5. Long-Term Strategic Planning:: IBP may integrate New Product Introduction phases by incorporating insights from product development portfolios.

6. Capacity Expansion Planning:: IBP may include capacity expansion planning by aligning long-term plans with new product development, cost improvement projects, and management of existing product portfolios. The long-term strategic plan serves as an input. These demand elements are matched against mapped capacity data in the system to conduct gap analysis.