Integrated Tactical Planning

Integrated Tactical Planning

by Rod Hozack, Stuart Harman, Todd Ferguson, Dawn Howarth
Released February 2021
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119784753

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Book description

The experts at Oliver Wight provide business leaders with invaluable information for integrating the tactical planning process 

Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) is an essential process for regularly re-aligning product, demand, and supply plans in the short term, thereby giving the Executive team the confidence that operational activities are being well managed, unless they formally hear otherwise. This cross-functional re-planning process is vital to responding to change, increasing competitiveness, and reducing costs. Integrated Tactical Planning:  Respond to Change, Increase Competitiveness and Reduce Costs helps senior executives devote more time to strategy and other value-added activities by deploying ITP practices throughout their organization.  

Written by the leadership team at Oliver Wight, one of the world’s most respected firms for effectively integrating business processes and improving business outcomes, this authoritative resource offers a contemporary view of the processes, behavior change methods, and new technology for implementing ITP processes. Throughout the text, the authors share business-proven concepts, define fundamental terms, and provide real-life examples of how Integrated Tactical Planning has been applied in various industries and businesses. Clear and accurate chapters cover essential topics including strategy alignment, product and demand plan execution, supply scheduling, performance improvement, and more. Presenting the information necessary to get an organization started on its Integrated Tactical Planning journey, this book: 

  • Describes how to manage and align product portfolio changes and new products within a single management process 
  • Explains the mechanisms and behavioral requirements for an organization to successfully execute Integrated Tactical Planning  
  • Offers methods for improving reaction time and cost-effectively responding to changes in Demand and Supply 
  • Reviews different design and deployment strategies, structures and roles, and the key ITP elements such as process definition and sustainability 
  • Features a comprehensive case study that details the challenges and results experienced by an Oliver Wight client company that implemented Integrated Tactical Planning 

Integrated Tactical Planning: Respond to Change, Increase Competitiveness and Reduce Costs  is a must-have book for senior executives, leaders, managers, and planners at organizations of any size across all industries.  

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
    1. Unlocking the Greatest Management Secret
    2. Demystifying Terminology
    3. The Rationale
    4. The Benefits
  5. CHAPTER 1: Great Execution
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Process
    3. Why Integrated Tactical Planning?
    4. Integrated Tactical Planning Rationale
    5. Integrating the Business: The Maturity Journey
    6. Do We Know What Game We Are Playing?
    7. Aligning Systems with Planning
    8. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  6. CHAPTER 2: Empowering the Organization
    1. The Integrated Business Model
    2. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  7. CHAPTER 3: Delivering the Value
    1. Definition of Product and Portfolio
    2. Defining the Elements of Product and Portfolio
    3. Scope of Product and Portfolio Process
    4. Integrated Tactical Planning Horizon
    5. Product Projects Manager
    6. Product Life Cycle
    7. Integration with Demand‐Supply Tactical Execution
    8. Master Data Management
    9. Resource Planning
    10. Project Management
    11. Launch Preparedness
    12. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  8. CHAPTER 4: Optimizing the Go‐to‐Market Approach
    1. Demand Creation
    2. Definition of Demand Management
    3. Role of Demand Execution Manager
    4. Linking Demand Planning to Demand Execution
    5. Forecast Consumption
    6. Demand Segmentation
    7. Abnormal Demand
    8. Demand Monitoring
    9. Order Promising
    10. Benefits of Demand Execution
    11. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  9. CHAPTER 5: Managing the Value
    1. Key Aspects of Supply Execution
    2. Master Planner/Scheduler as a Pivotal Role
    3. Time Fence Management—The Next Level of Detail
    4. Stocking Strategies
    5. Decoupling Demand from Supply
    6. Demonstrated Capacity Planning
    7. Inventory Management
    8. Aligning the Supply Chain
    9. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  10. CHAPTER 6: Driving Performance Improvement
    1. Measures: Powerful Tools for Improvement but …
    2. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  11. CHAPTER 7: Running Smoothly
    1. The Daily‐Weekly Cadence
    2. Empowerment Criteria
    3. Stop‐and‐Check Meetings
    4. Structure
    5. Leadership and Roles
    6. Behaviors
    7. The Sustainability Plan
    8. Summary and Key Change Requirements
  12. CHAPTER 8: Time to Releasing Value
    1. Background
    2. Designing the Way Forward
    3. Getting Traction—Moving from Reacting to Forward Looking
    4. Results 12 Weeks On
  13. Conclusion
  14. Glossary of Terms
  15. References
  16. About Oliver Wight and the Authors
  17. Index
  18. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Integrated Tactical Planning
  • Author(s): Rod Hozack, Stuart Harman, Todd Ferguson, Dawn Howarth
  • Release date: February 2021
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119784753