Professional planning means anticipating and adapting to change. Trends must be spot quickly and their future impacts have to be projected.

Driven by strategic goals and projected events, planning needs to be based on actual performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It relies on simple and fast access to consistent data from a single source to provide the basis for accurate plans and forecasts.

The process of planning, budgeting and forecasting your organization’s numerous operations is often extremely complex. Whether you are projecting investments, financial instruments, depreciation models or multi-currency impacts into a cash flow forecast / liquidity planning or building a capacity and production planning in co-ordination with supply chain and human resources, you cannot rely on insufficient or inaccurate information.

Coordinate and collaborate

Planning can be integrated between corporate management and business unit requirements. It can be a comprehensive business process in which many groups coordinate and collaborate to analyse and optimally allocate the resources of the enterprise.

The technology to use must be a platform to operate in an interactive fashion to support planning, financial consolidation, reporting and performance management in a fully - integrated approach of applications.