Companies face a variety of planning issues, from budgeting and forecasting to strategic and long-term planning. These processes are often complex and involve a broad group of stakeholders. At the same time, they require considerable manual processing and are often based on subjective judgements. This results in repeated loops and coordination that tie up valuable resources without noticeably improving planning quality. In addition, there are increasing requirements for simulations and resilient scenarios that are difficult to map using existing methods.

Modern, integrated planning optimises processes, reduces manual activities and improves the quality of results.

Are your planning processes efficient and structured enough?

Efficient planning requires clear structures, standardised processes and central control. However, there is often a lack of a consistent, system-supported solution that creates transparency and harmonises planning cycles. Processes run in isolation, coordination is time-consuming and decisions are made on the basis of incomplete data.

With SAP Analytics Cloud, planning processes can be designed flexibly and customised to individual company requirements. Predefined workflows enable transparent and traceable planning, while a consistent database improves control quality. The integration of different planning levels reduces redundant work steps and ensures greater efficiency.

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Success factors for a sustainable transformation

The successful introduction of integrated planning requires a clear strategy, well-founded technology decisions and the active involvement of users.

Clear objectives create a transparent and focussed approach.
Technology expertise in projects ensures that proven best practices are utilised.
User experience and change management promote acceptance and smooth implementation.

How high is the degree of automation in your planning?

Many companies continue to rely on manual consolidation of historical actual data and past planning values. This ties up unnecessary resources and often leads to inconsistent results. Intelligent automation can provide a remedy here.

SAP Analytics Cloud helps to automatically generate reliable planning proposals based on past planning events and seamlessly transfer them to downstream sub-plans. This makes the entire planning process more efficient and decisions can be made more quickly. In addition, artificial intelligence (AI) can help to create suggestions for the planning values so that companies can focus on the content in order to react to changes in near real time.

How can the quality of your planning be sustainably improved?

Future-proof planning requires precise analyses and reliable simulations. A lack of modelling and simulation options often leads to a limited informative value of planning. This severely restricts managers in their decision-making. Without well-founded scenario analyses, it remains unclear which strategic options are actually expedient. Monte Carlo analyses, value driver-based models and AI-supported forecasts improve forward-looking management and enable a realistic assessment of different scenarios.

Value driver trees can be used to identify and simulate key influencing factors so that not only risks can be recognised at an early stage, but also well-founded recommendations for action can be derived. The use of modern technologies increases transparency and makes companies more resilient to dynamic market changes. SAP Analytics Cloud can close these gaps with Joule and Compass.

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