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Prodacapo ABC/M Manager

Prodacapo is the leading activity based management software, providing the complete solution for Activity Based Costing and Activity Based Management (ABC/ABM).

Prodacapo ABC/M enables you to accurately measure customer profitability, product profitability, internal service charges and shared service costs. It will enable you to identify the real reasons behind a certain cost or profitability level.

The key characteristics of Prodacapo provide really innovative, advanced and user-friendly functionality. The solution is easily integrated with your current IT environment to provide consistent and periodic reporting of ABC/ABM information every month, quarter or for the period of your choice.

Instant drill-back and intuitive analyses and reporting options enable users at all levels to readily access, understand and take action based upon the ABC and ABM information. Prodacapo ABC/M Manager can support Activity Based Management (ABM) and Activity Based Costing (ABC) in banks and the finance sector, construction, education, local government, the health sector, manufacturing, business management, construction, insurance and in fact across any industry sector.

With Prodacapo ABC/ABM you will create true transparency of what is really consuming resources across the organisation and the related performance those resources are delivering, offering you the opportunity to identify the performance levers that enable managers to:

• Identify product, service and customer profitability and understand the factors that increase or erode it
• Articulate the best course of action to remedy an unprofitable account whether it be price re-negotiation, account re-engineering or a service level review
• Understand the "cause-and-effect" between business processes and product and customer profitability
• Simulate the profit implications of business scenarios that anticipate changes in volumes and mix sold, or the effect of gaining or losing a particular product or customer.
• Slice and dice multi-dimensional profitability information to identify the real drivers of profitability
• Understand unit operating costs and benchmark performance between different operating units and over time and improve operational performance
• Focus on driving costs down while improving service levels

Powerful and fast software

At the heart of Prodacapo Activity Cost Manager is an industrial strength costing powerhouse running on either Oracle of SQL databases that can cope with unlimited volumes of data and that allows the development of efficient costing models for entire global enterprises on a multi-period basis.

True transparency and instant drill-back

Rapid drill-back and a wide range of powerful analytical and visualization tools allows managers to instantly understand the make-up of costs at any level in an ABC/ABM model quickly, re-enforcing the credibility of the results.

Fast, flexible, advanced model building

Advanced model building functionality reduces the time and effort to design, build and maintain an ABC/ABM model in Prodacapo and there is no limit to the number of products, customers and channels, activities and cost drivers that can be included.

User defined attributes can be used without limit making cross-sorting and multi-dimensional analysis easy.

Innovative modeling and powerful integration

Prodacapo ABC/ABM contains a wide range of pre-loaded cost tracing methods to accelerate model build and deliver quality results rapidly and can express all results in terms of both cost and the numbers of full-time equivalent staff (FTEs) to help managers to visualize where resources are being consumed.

Prodacapo can be seamlessly integrated into the IT architecture of the organisation so that it all but disappears from sight and fully automated such that results can be updated regularly to provide a sound basis for routine management, statutory and regulatory reports quickly and easily.

Outputs can be easily translated into MS Excel and all leading OLAP tools.

Slice and Dice Analysis

Prodacapo Power Analytics is a powerful on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tool allows you to interpret and analyse your activity-based profit model with extreme speed and flexibility, allowing analysts to "get the dirt under their finger-nails" and really understand the drivers of profitability in the enterprise.

Cause and effect

Through its advanced graphical user interface, users of Prodacapo can "see" the cause-and-effect relationships that show the linkage between processes and profitability and which underpin the cost dynamics of the business.

Scalability and integration

The Prodacapo Activity Cost Manager is wholly scalable from a local stand-alone laptop solution up to a global, networked installation.

It can be integrated easily with your current IT environment and automated to provide routine reporting of ABC information consistent and speedily every month, quarter, or for the frequency of your choice.