The Acceleration Edition
The pace has changed. Your planning should too.
Planning isn’t evolving step by step anymore. It’s speeding up.
New technology is live, market pressure is rising, and your peers are already adjusting. The gap between reacting and leading is getting visible. This edition shows what’s changing—and how to plan, decide, and act faster.
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Sandra
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Planning is accelerating. Your peers are already moving.
What came out of Board Beyond London is clear: planning is shifting from periodic to continuous. Board Beyond is where leaders are figuring out what that actually means in practice.
What your peers are saying
Board 15 is available now! This is what acceleration looks like.
With agentic AI and continuous planning capabilities, Board 15 shifts planning from periodic cycles to always-on, adaptive decision-making. Less manual effort, faster responses, and planning that moves at the pace of your business. This isn’t a preview—it’s ready to use.
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Where Planning is Heading
Growth isn’t gone. It’s accelerating in new directions
Demand is concentrating, price sensitivity is rising across all segments, and traditional segmentation no longer holds. Planning needs to adapt faster—aligning pricing, assortment, and messaging with greater precision as conditions shift.
Explore the April Economic Outlook
Retail planning can’t keep up the old way
IDC highlights how disconnected merchandising, supply chain, and financial planning slow decisions and create misalignment. Leading retailers are shifting to unified planning to respond faster and act with confidence.
Next-generation retail planning
Recognized in Gartner MQ for Supply Chain Planning
Board is positioned in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning. As complexity increases, this recognition helps benchmark solutions built to support faster, more connected decisions.
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Innovation in Practice
Komatsu: Connecting planning to drive enterprise agility
With unified planning and consolidation, Komatsu Europe cut manual effort, accelerated forecasting, and gained real-time visibility across the business.
- Up to 80% reduction in manual consolidation
- 10–15% faster forecasting cycles
- 2–3 days saved every reporting cycle
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From Excel to AI: How EBSCO rebuilt FP&A for speed
Manual reporting and fragmented data slowed everything down. By centralizing FP&A on Board, EBSCO moved from reactive reporting to forward-looking decisions.
With @Adam Hancock @Jennifer Buchanan and Dan Rebella.
See how
ENABLE
Build Capability Faster
How to version a hierarchy without disruption
Learn how to manage evolving structures while maintaining data consistency—so changes don’t impact your planning process.
Learn how
From guides to guided walkthroughs
Static documentation slows you down. Guided walkthroughs turn instructions into step-by-step experiences—helping you learn faster and apply changes directly in your environment.
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Board Academy: Keep pace with what’s changing
Board 15 training is now available, alongside new Analysis and Reporting on-demand courses and regional instructor-led sessions—helping you apply new capabilities faster.
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You’re already on Board. Now it’s about using what’s new to move faster—and getting real value from it.
