Capabilities of Financial Planning Modules
The solution embeds pre-built modules to satisfy critical analytic and reporting needs of finance organizations. These include:
- Tracking of gross margin and fixed costs, including allocation mechanisms for budgeting purposes.
- Profit and loss (P&L) target setting, which includes initialization and simulation procedures to support processing of multi-year operating plans linked to both budgeted and actual metrics.
- A Variance Analysis Tool to determine margin contribution variance under different scenarios.
- Balance sheet and cash flow analysis that provides insight into balance sheet ratios, financial position and working capital availability.
- Supports capital expenditure simulations to reveal the impact investment choices on the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
Capabilities of Commercial Planning Modules
The solution includes commercial analysis and planning modules that complement the financial planning capabilities. These modules are highly configurable, allowing companies significant flexibility to design and integrate tracking mechanisms that provide the most insight into their business. They include:
- Customer Profitability & Planning uses key performance indicators to track performance by customer and can be consolidated to help sales teams refine their plans and target profitable opportunities.
- Trade deal analytics that support budget planning and trade negotiations by tracking off-invoice discounts and year-end premiums.
- Salesforce Target supports performance incentives by synthesizing volume, price and invoice discounts by salesforce.
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