Successful pilotPlanning · Manufacturing · FMCG · Distribution

Integrated Business Planning

One AI-augmented plan that brings demand, capacity and financial scenarios together, so sales, operations and finance commit to the same numbers and see the impact of every trade-off on margin and cash.

One plandemand, supply and finance reconciled in a single model
Scenarioimpact on margin and cash shown before commitment
Fasterconsensus decisions in the monthly planning cycle
The problem

What this workflow costs today.

01Three plans, one meeting

Sales brings a volume plan, operations a capacity plan and finance a budget; the review spends its time reconciling them.

02Scenarios take days

A what-if on price, capacity or raw material cost needs a spreadsheet rebuild, so few are ever run.

03Volume without value

Plans are agreed in units and cases; the margin and cash consequence arrives after the month has closed.

04Assumptions go undocumented

Why a forecast was overridden, and by whom, is rarely recorded and never learned from.

Three planning engines, one plan

Demand, supply and money in the same room.

Each engine hands its output to the next, and the executive review sees the whole chain.

Pilot capabilityDemand Planning

Statistical baseline by SKU and channel with the drivers explained, plus a log of every sales override and its reason.

Baselineforecast by SKU and channel
Explaineddrivers behind each change
Loggedevery override with owner
Pilot capabilitySupply & Capacity

Tests the demand plan against lines, shifts, materials and lead times, and flags constraints with options to resolve them.

Checkedcapacity and materials
Flaggedconstraints before commitment
Optionsto close each gap
Pilot capabilityFinancial Bridge & Scenarios

Turns the volume plan into revenue, margin, working capital and cash, reconciled to budget, and runs what-ifs on demand.

One planreconciled to budget
Scenarioimpact on margin and cash
Fasterconsensus decisions
See it in action

Watch the agents at work.

A walkthrough of the agents at work: what they see, what they decide, and where people stay in control.

Integrated Business Planning demo videoAITHENTIC demo · YouTube
How it works

The AiX™ loop, applied end to end.

Every agent follows the same five steps, so behaviour is predictable and every step leaves evidence.

1
Observe

Orders, shipments, forecasts, capacity, bills of material, standard costs and the approved budget.

2
Reason

Builds a baseline forecast, tests it against capacity and converts it into financial outcomes.

3
Decide

Surfaces the gaps between demand, supply and budget and ranks the options to close them.

4
Act

Prepares the consensus pack, runs scenarios on demand and records the agreed plan as the single version.

5
Learn

Tracks forecast accuracy and override value, and feeds both back into the next cycle.

The agent team

Specialist agents, separated by duty.

No single agent both proposes and approves. Each one has a narrow job, its own tools and its own permissions.

Demand Planning Agent

Produces a statistical baseline by SKU and channel and explains the drivers behind each change.

Supply & Capacity Agent

Tests the demand plan against lines, shifts, materials and lead times, and flags constraints.

Financial Bridge Agent

Converts the volume plan into revenue, margin, working capital and cash, reconciled to the budget.

Scenario Agent

Runs what-ifs on request and presents the trade-offs side by side for the executive review.

Connects to:
ERP (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365)Microsoft FabricPower BIExcel add-in for plannersMicrosoft Teams
Authentic AI at the centre

Autonomy you can govern, trace and control.

Speed comes from autonomy. Trust comes from the three things around it. This is how each is designed into Integrated Business Planning.

Autonomy

Forecasting, constraint checks and scenario runs happen without waiting for anyone; committing the plan stays with the executive review.

Governance

The planning calendar, sign-off roles and plan versions are defined once and enforced by the workflow, not by email.

Traceability

Every override is logged with owner, reason code and value, and the plan of record can be replayed version by version.

Control

Tolerance bands decide when a gap is escalated; finance holds the bridge to budget and can lock it for the cycle.

AiX™Authentic AIExplainable, traceable, reconcilable
Autonomy bands

What the agent does alone, and what it never does.

Bands are agreed with the business before go-live and widened only on evidence from the pilot.

ActionAutonomyAccountable owner
Generate the baseline demand forecastActs autonomouslyDemand planner
Flag capacity and material constraintsActs autonomouslySupply planner
Run a scenario requested by a plannerActs autonomouslyPlanner
Propose consensus adjustments to the planRecommendsS&OP lead
Commit the plan of recordHuman approvesExecutive S&OP committee
Acts autonomouslyRecommendsHuman approvesAssists only
Decision recordIllustrative
Cycle
Monthly consensus, version 3
Change
Sales override +6% on 500g range, Western region
Reason code
New distributor listing, confirmed PO
Constraint check
Line 2 capacity 94%, within limit
Financial impact
Revenue +2.1%, margin +0.4 pts, cash neutral
Status
Accepted into plan of record by S&OP lead

Guardrails

  • Plan of record changes only through the approval step
  • Overrides above tolerance require a reason code and owner
  • Budget bridge locked by finance per cycle
  • Scenario outputs labelled as scenarios, never as plan
Outcomes & measurement

Every metric has a baseline and a method.

Success metrics are agreed before build and signed off with the client after the pilot.

MetricTargetHow we measure
Forecast accuracyUp vs baselineWeighted MAPE by SKU and channel
Time to consensus planDown vs baselineWorking days from data cut to sign-off
Scenarios reviewed per cycleUp vs baselineCount presented at executive review
Plan-to-actual margin varianceDown vs baselineMonthly variance to plan of record

Pilot results are company-reported and engagement-specific. Figures and names in decision records are illustrative.

How we deliver

The A.G.E.N.T. Method.

Agentic process reengineering, one workflow at a time.

AAudit

Map how the workflow really runs today, with owners, data lineage and the tacit rules.

GGauge

Agree the business outcome, the baseline and the success metrics before build.

EEngineer

Redesign for agent-first execution: agents, tools, rules and autonomy bands.

NNavigate

Pilot inside your controls, train owners and move bands only on evidence.

TTrack

Measure against the baseline and report the result the business signed off.

Start with one workflow, one agent and one measurable result.

Book a working session with our team in Dubai, Riyadh or the UK. We will map the workflow, agree the metric and show the agent running on data like yours.

The leak it closes

The four steps it runs
    Where the same capability shows up
    Primary measure

    Secondary measure

    Systems it reads and writes