Planning tools

Corporate planning is to be seen in the context of the control cycle of corporate management. It takes the most important role in communications during the implementation of strategic goals. For a uniform orientation to the overall goals it is on one side necessary to plan with strategic feedbacks as well as on the other side to connect operative planning areas with one another and to integrate those into the overall planning runs. Diverging objectives, several participants, heterogeneous processes, multiple planning levels and objects out of the entire supply chain form the corporate planning to a complex structure. On the one hand, complexity can be resolved by planning partially, on the other hand this kind of planning demands broad coordination. Planning systems can be of great assistance here.

We can set up planning applications according to your needs and help you to choose the particularly suitable tool for you. The following SAP applications are at your choice:

• Business Planning and Simulation - (SAP BPS)
  in continuation of existing solutions
• Integrated Planner - (SAP IP)
• Business Planning and Consolidation - (SAP BPC)

The cimt consultants go along with you for customizing your SAP standard planning functions and defining your individual planning functions (FOX and ABAP). The creation of planning layouts can be realized as Microsoft Excel or as web interface variant. On demand, we offer the following individual solutions: automatic generation of target figures or refeeding of target figures with the aid of retractors or Open Hub solutions. Together with you, we design planning applications based on manual or (semi-)automatically generated target figures.

From our point of view it is of particular importance to focus on the integration between the single planning areas and the operative planning. This way, it is possible to differ significantly from separated planning applications and to achieve the desired economic effects.

More information can be found in the flyer "Introduction to a SAP-based, integrated corporate planning".

 

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Corporate Management with SAP Integrated Planner (SAP IP)

SAP Integrated Planner is a fully incorporated tool of SAP Business Intelligence technology. Planning functions are easy for different user groups without the necessity to build up new know-how. Planning folders can be easily integrated into existing or new BI reports or web applications.

Would you like to analyze plan variances? Even this kind of analysis can be realized in your reporting system via the on-board means of SAP BI. Here, you can take advantage of your SAP Business Warehouse's data model for generating planning data as well as comparative actual data.

In the following an individual integrated corporate planning is shown, and how it can be realized with the help of SAP Integrated Planner.

The partial planning of the aligned sales and price planning will result in a revenue planning. Planned sales are also reconciled with the production planning in order to be able to plan the capacity of personnel in advance. All planning can be preallocated due to statistical distributions or individual mathematical formulas and functions. Subsequently, the planning can be planned via planning functions at the push of a button or manually.

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Find a short clipping of the example in our video gallery or here.

More information can be found in the flyer "Introduction to a SAP-based, integrated corporate planning".

Corporate Consolidation

The quality and actuality of corporate reporting is essential for information requests of the legislative body as well as for the decisions of shareholders, banks and internal stakeholders. The SAP consolidation tools undertake information from different sources and validate them with the goal to achieve high quality and reconciliation levels. Both, the internal and external consolidation take place on the same database. Simulation options allow an estimation of the consequences of legal changes or adjustments of validations on time.

A recipient-friendly information supply in combination with decreasing delivery times of consolidated financial statements ("Fast Close") at consistent or increasing data quality pose a special challenge. Especially for globally operating companies the actuality of this topic is shown in this connection. For those global players the effort is increasing to fulfill reporting requirements not only through the growing recipient circle.

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Additionally to the conventional shareholders, creditors and debitors those companies need to consider also the differing regulatory reporting standards. Here, not only the legal regulations have an effect, but also different accounting standards like IFRS or US-GAAP. These need to be organized parallel to increasing data volume by several classification levels and perspectives, for example according to management or legal view.

The SAP portfolio in the consolidation area has broadened. We offer our services with the new SAP products SAP BPC resp. SAP Financial Consolidation, as well as with the classical SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP-SEM-BCS). Stay in touch with us concerning the latest developments.

The consolidation tool SAP SEM-BCS (Business Consolidation Services) includes all steps which are necessary in a consolidation process: from balance carry forward, the entry and preparation of reporting data, consolidating entries to the data representation for the reporting system. In doing so, we assure the simplification of the challenging consolidation process by an integrated complete solution for the following areas:

• Matrix consolidation
• Parallel financial accounting
• diverse consolidation accounting methods
• Integration of consolidated financial statement planning (plan/actual comparison)
• Automatic postings and validations

Review your consolidation requirements with our specialists.

 

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Consolidation with SAP SEM BCS

With SAP BCS you can consolidate your group's single financial statements along the two dimensions legal and management view. Thereby, you can access the common data base for internal and external reporting. Via a possible web integration you are flexible to decide, which process steps shall be carried out locally in the subsidiary or centrally in the parent company. Simulate and plan the consolidated financial statement considering corporate structural changes (e.g. changes to consolidation accounting methods or corporate hierarchy). Use additionally diverse reporting and analysis possibilities of SAP Business Intelligence. Everything in one system with a high automation level.

The following example shows, how the consolidated financial statement of a globally operating company could look like.

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Have a look at our video gallery and watch the SAP BCS implementation video.

You would like to minimize the effort for consolidation? We gladly introduce you to the possibilities of SAP consolidation and support you actively with the specification and implementation of your solution. Please ask us.