Strategic Business Planning Models Tools Software UK

Software for Strategic Business Planning

Often referred to as predictive planning, ABC planning, driver based budgeting, driver based planning or assumption-based planning, Strategic Business Planning requires an underlying model that reflects cause and effect in an organisation and identifies the key drivers of cost and revenue.

Leading Strategic Business Planning Software is based on the structures and methodology of a soundly designed ABC model. These business planning tools support the use of cause-and-effect inter-relationships between customers, products, channels, cost drivers, activities, resources and costs to model the impact on resource capacity of changes in volumes, mix, prices, inflation, productivity and variability.

Prodacapo Planning Manager

Prodacapo Interactive Planning Manager is a dynamic planning tool that allows you to easily simulate and plan future resource requirements, costs and profitability interactively. It brings intelligence to your scenario simulation, planning and budgeting processes, allowing you to optimize resources and operations to improve profitability and attain strategic targets.

Prodacapo planning software

Prodacapo Strategic Business Planning Software enables scenario modelling to start with changes in, say, the sales volumes and prices of combinations of products and customers and then work backwards through cost drivers to activities to resources.

Managers are presented with a graphical view of the resources required to meet the new demands compared to the available resource capacity.

Managers then interactively decide how they will balance demand and capacity. The software then determines the costs, subject to inflation, and produces a completely new and fully analysable model.

Scenarios can be analysed and compared and managers can drill down into the detail to understand each scenario and react to it.

Models and scenarios

The software enables managers to run scenario upon scenario built on proven detailed ABC data simply by inputting easily defined assumptions and intervening to over-ride model calculations as needed.