Strategic Focus: Leveraging AIP Software For Enterprise Investment Planning
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Executive Summary
Industrial firms often struggle to translate high-level goals – such as decarbonization or workforce development – into actionable strategies, while balancing competing priorities and maintaining profitability. Without a clear connection to daily operations, even the best strategies can fall short. To bridge this gap, many firms are turning to digital solutions that align strategic objectives with achievable growth and innovation. This report is aimed at senior executives across operations, engineering, sustainability and finance teams in heavy asset industries who are interested in enterprise-level capital planning. It explores the growing need for digital solutions to support enterprise investment planning (EIP) and details how tools such as Microsoft Excel, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, asset maintenance solutions, asset investment planning (AIP) software and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software have developed capabilities to support EIP. While industrial firms have begun exploring these solutions to support EIP, Verdantix observes that no single solution currently integrates the financial and industrial expertise needed to effectively drive strategic, enterprise-wide capital allocation decisions.Operational KPIs, along with geopolitical and economic uncertainties, dictate industrial investment priorities
Capital investment planning is scaling up from individual assets to an enterprise-wide perspective
Financial and industrial asset management tools are enabling strategic decision-making at the enterprise level
Current solutions for enterprise investment planning (EIP) fall short for asset-intensive industries
AIP software fits the bill for EIP, but still lacks complete capabilities
About the Authors

Sayanh Alam
Analyst
Sayanh is an Analyst in the Verdantix Industrial Transformation practice. Prior to joining Verdantix, she completed an MSc in Chemistry with Molecular Physics at Imperial Coll…
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Kiran Darmasseelane
Senior Analyst
Kiran is a Senior Analyst in the Verdantix Industrial Transformation practice. His current research agenda focuses on emerging solutions and global market trends across the pr…
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Malavika Tohani
Research Director, Industrial Transformation
Malavika leads the Verdantix Industrial Transformation practice. Her current research agenda focuses on digital technologies for Operational Excellence including digital twins…
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