Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning facilitates the transition of a business strategy into a financial plan. By instituting screens and customizable work flows senior management teams are able to produce short, medium and long term plans using top down and bottom up modeling.
With Strategic Planning you are able to monitor actual performances against shortfalls for a wide range of indicators, enabling you to model a wide range of inputs that affect the volume and profit forecasts. Quality plans and forecasts are generated consistently, accurately and realistically enabling a seamless transition between strategy and budgets. The scenario planning functionality enables realistic plans to be produced in a short space of time.
The top down plan effectively illustrates the impacts on the corporation’s profit and loss with the additional evaluation of growth and profit contributions. Strategic Planning makes it easy to analyze sales volumes and growth to forecast demand. Through the process of scenario planning the user can manipulate figures and modify channel growths, which proportionately adjust the account growths.
Strategic Planning intuitively integrates a top down plan, scenario plan, P&L analyses, account level plans, and corporate opportunities.
Features
- Scenario planning manager
- Variance analysis tool
- Integrated actuals
- Growth & contribution comparison tool
- Flexible real-time modeling
- Multi-dimensional reporting
- Illustrates market share
- Complete P&L
- Multi-user security and file management
- Top down bottom up planning
Benefits
- Sets goals and illustrates the impacts immediately
- Powerful analysis
- Allow user to drill down & compare on multiple time periods
- Keeps data in sync ensuring detailed plans link with summarized plans
- Visualize differential growths by account & product segment
- Helps set company targets and monitors accounts’ performances