Consumer Goods Planning
Cycle Performance Management
Overview
Consumer Goods Planning is a pre-built solution designed to meet the corporate performance management needs of the consumer goods industry. The solution covers the complete CPM cycle from strategic planning and balanced scorecard, to analysis and reporting.Consumer Goods Planning covers specific industry issues in sales and marketing, product costing, investment planning, and human resources. It helps consumer goods manufacturers and distributors make their operational budgets. It covers specific industry needs like forecasting and demand trend planning, and simulates different pricing scenarios and marketing campaigns, as well as changes in the production environment or material price changes. So your organization sees how these changes affect P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Consumer Goods Planning offers pre-built analysis and reporting tools that allow your management team to monitor evolution of the plan, analyze business issues, make business decisions with quality information, and see how these decisions affect the bottom line.
Benefits
- Allows your company to:
- Prepare financial and strategic plans using an integrated platform that covers the complete business cycle
- Monitor performance using pre-built scorecards
- Analyze business data to find key business issues
- Report to stakeholders using pre-defined reports
- Addresses industry-specific issues based on the experience in the consumer goods industry of our consultancy team.
- Provides a complete and integrated CPM solution developed on the Cognos platform, the leader in performance management.
Features
- Pre-built financial planning model covers the whole business cycle including sales and marketing, product costing, investments and depreciation, overhead, and cash flow.
- Pre-built scorecards
- Pre-built OLAP cubes
- Pre-built reports
Architecture
Consumer Goods Planning was developed using the Cognos performance management platform: Cognos Planning and IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.Budgeting models for Cognos Planning include sales, HR, profit and loss, and balance sheet. Scorecards include financial, client, HR, and product perspectives. Analysis cubes include sales and marketing, product costing, overhead, and HR. Pre-built reports cover sales, product costing, HR, profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow.
The solution is compatible with Windows 2000 Server or higher platforms, Microsoft SQL 2000 or higher, and Oracle 9 or higher.
Availability
For more detailed information, contact Cycle Performance Management by email at: CPMPlanning@CPMsolution.com
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