Your savings is the bedrock of successful financial planning and/or retirement planning. It is only after you are able to build your savings and cater for an emergency savings fund that you will be able to start investing.
It's easy to think that you will start saving once you start earning sufficient salary from your job. The reality is that without a disciplined savings habit to begin with, you will likely squander the majority of your salary without realising it.
A habit, once formed, becomes an integral part of your life making it second nature for you to think of saving a part of your salary first and spending the rest, rather than spending first and saving whatever is left.
At the same time, it's important to note that your savings should be seen as a means to an end, and not the end goal by itself. That's because what you do with your savings is equally important as how much you are saving.
If you are saving large chunk of your salary each month only to leave it in your bank savings account, then you are running the risk of letting inflation slowly erode your wealth. Worse, you may be investing it blindly into asset classes that you don't actually understand only to realise that they do not meet your investment objectives years down the road.