Software

Prodacapo Interactive Business Planning

Prodacapo Interactive Business Planning Manager make visible the clear understanding of the "cause-and-effect" relationships that underpin the operations in any organisation and allows managers to:

• Simulate and plan the financial effects (costs and profits) of a range of scenarios such as:
  • change in demand for products and services,
  • changed product volume and mix,
  • anticipated economies of scale
  • process improvements,
  • outsourcing or changes to resource costs
  • step changes and the effect of capacity constraints
• Make accurate plans for resources required, such as the number of full-time employees, on the basis of how your organisation plans to perform and what it needs to deliver
• Analyse resource allocation and identify areas with bottlenecks and areas with excess capacity
• Facilitate the process of creating, updating, and maintaining your annual budget or rolling forecasts
• Test alternative "what if" analyses to assess the likely impact on resourcing levels and future performance

Interactive business planning and simulation

The Prodacapo Business Planning Manager is designed to work at speed such that groups of managers can work inter-actively with it to rapidly explore how they, as managers would respond in the face of any particular scenario or simulation.

As a result, it allows managers to explore a range of possible reactions quickly and easily, allowing the preferred option to emerge more quickly than more conventional approaches to planning and budgeting.

Simulation and planning based upon actual cause-and-effect relationships

The solution adds "intelligence" to your simulation and planning. It does so by using an Activity Based Costing approach to establish a cause-and-effect link between the organisation's use of resources and the products and services provided.

This relationship is often absent in traditional planning methods. Prodacapo Interactive Business Planning will make your planning and simulations more accurate, as they will be based on factual relationships, not on managers' estimates or extrapolations based on the past.

Rapid simulation, planning and re-forecasting

The solution provides a unique, user-friendly, step-by-step wizard that facilitates and speeds up your simulation and planning work.

Because your model will be based on actual cause-and-effect relationships, it will allow you to perform simulations and re-forecasts without involving each and every cost centre manager. This means you can quickly and easily model multiple scenarios for decision-making.

Manage and compare multiple scenarios

Several planning scenarios can be created in a single model in order to simulate different outcomes based on alternative assumptions.

User-friendly analysis and reporting

The solution offers an extensive suite of analysis and reporting options as well as a powerful built-in tool for easy creation of user-defined reports and charts.

In addition the solution allows you to export information to practically any application - from MS Excel to data warehousing environments, budgeting, finance and consolidation systems, as well as to leading OLAP tools.