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"People working on a budgeting process that is clearly guided and focused by strategic initiatives spend less time arguing about irrelevant details and more time focusing on stuff that matters."  

Benchmarking firm APQC

CorPlanning enables forward-thinking organisations to manage their budgeting, forecasting and planning processes in an efficient, holistic and focused manner. 

Resource management is a critical process to ensuring that your organisation has enough reserve at its disposal to successfully executive strategies.  And, while all companies have some sort of budgeting and forecasting, they are all not typically tied into the strategic planning process.   

CorPlanning eliminates these issues by enabling organisations to link budgeting, planning and forecasting with the management of strategic objectives and initiatives.   

CorPlanning can be quickly deployed and easily configured to an organisation’s specific needs, and enables you to discuss resource plans, readily create standard financial reports, and make decisions within a strategic context. 

Key benefits

Link planning to strategy

• Translate strategy into operational targets and initiatives

 Improve your ability to act and react

• Quickly react to market, competitive, and organisational changes

 Accelerate your budgeting and planning cycle

• Maximise participation, collaboration, and ownership in a centralised process.

Reduce your operational costs

• Pare down all costs associated with managing the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes

 Improve your operational efficiency 

• Reverse the typical 80/20 input/analysis ratio for the budgeting and planning process

 Drive profitable growth through 'What-if' Analysis capabilities

• Analyse the business impact of hypothetical scenarios in real time

Key Features

Strategic resource planning

• Centralised management of the financial planning cycle

• Secure budgeting and planning in a fully audited environment

• Capture knowledge for developing resource plans and making informed decisions

• Every object is owned / maintained by a specific individual

Simplified data entry

• Distributed data entry over the web

• Customisable explanations and helps for users

• Actual values from previous years available for comparison

• Exchange data using spreadsheets

• Link to supply documents, hyperlinks and personal notes

 Multiple Budgeting methods

CorPlanning supports all commonly used planning methods, including:

• Rolling forecasts

• Zero-base budgeting

• Outcome budgeting

• Activity based management

• Beyond budgeting

• Top-down and bottom-up

• “What if” scenario modelling

• Multi-currency consolidation

• Financial and non-financial resources

• Approvals and reviews are customised to an organisation’s own workflows

Wide Ranging Financial reporting

• Consolidated financial reports

• Statutory reports

• Management reports

• Variance reports and exception analysis

• Reporting of key financial ratios

• Interactive financial reports; where financial outcomes can be linked to non-financial performance information

Integration with operational systems

Automated Data Xchange (ADX) technology linked to CorPlanning provides rapid access to data from any source, including ERP systems, databases, and flat files.

• Dynamic update of organisation and account structures

• Automatic synchronisation of planning data with other information systems

• Linkage to Infor FMS SunSystems and SAP Business One as standard.

Extensive Library of Planning templates

• Sales

• Cost of Goods Sold

• Eliminations

• EVMS (ANSI-748)

• R&D

• Capital Planning

• Payroll

• Budget

What sets CorPlanning 5 apart?

Comprehensive capabilities

• Real-time planning allows changes to drive instantaneous recalculation, re-forecasting and scorecard updates

• “Driver-driven forecasting” enables business drivers to improve forecast time lines, accuracy and flexibility

• Powerful planning functions, including breakback, consolidation, inter-company eliminations and multi-currency

• Mature, granular security system supports LDAP

• Powerful Automated Data Xchange (ADX) technology to populate worksheets from corporate information systems

Flexibility

• Easy to change/add dimensions, models and organisation structures

• Versioning provides capability to create multiple versions for all budget years

 Low total cost of ownership

• Purpose-built application to minimise implementation, training, modification and maintenance costs

• Out-of-the-box reports and templates

Scalability

• Single, open database repository

• J2EE web architecture allows large-scale implementation with hundreds of data sources, thousands of accounts and tens of thousands of users

Easy to use

• User friendly interface

• Automated calculations

• Initiative data entry

 For more information on CorVu please call our Product Advisory Team on +44 (0)20 7648 2000 or email us on info@sapphiresystems.co.uk.

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