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Data-driven forecasting technologies that are based on AI and machine learning, offer huge benefits for your company.

Modern tools – such as our Forecast Engine, developed in-house – provide an objective, fact-based foundation for decision-making and corporate steering. Analysing large quantities of data enables changes in markets to be identified early. Precise, tool-based projections minimise unexpected variations, increase efficiency, free up resources, and allow corporate decisions to be better planned and made with greater certainty. This high level of automation allows forecasts to be produced and the push of a button, while employees can focus on generating valuable insights in their role as business partners. Specific simulations within the forecasting horizon can provide information about drivers and their respective relevance.

High-quality forecasts also capital market communication. Their integration into your financial planning process can prevent ad hoc profit warnings and thus increase trust in your company.

Business case: The introduction of a data-based forecasting tool can generate a net benefit of 70 to 85 million euros over five years for an average listed company in Germany. The benefit results from two effects: an efficiency effect through less effort in forecasting and a real top-line effect – through more time to derive effective measures.

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Future-oriented corporate steering requires efficient planning. Planning involves making strategic decisions, setting sales targets, and working out how to optimise incentives and allocation of resources (e.g. human resources, investments).

Successful, sustainable support of the control processes requires two main prerequisites: Planning must take into account the complex interactions of the value chain while minimising the effort required to map planning processes.

To meet both of these demands, we’ve developed a new approach to integrated planning and simulation. In integrating these processes, we’ve considered a number of dimensions:

• Process integration of strategic planning, partial operational sub-planning and financial planning processes (consisting of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement)
• Functional integration across business units (e.g. sales, logistics, production, human resources) 
• Integration of planning horizons (long-term, medium-term, budget planning, short-term forecasting)
• Cross-process technical integration
• Data integration, both for master and transaction data
• Methodological integration for parallel use of manual planning (e.g. top-down or bottom-up), statistical approaches (predictive planning) and simulations

Click here to find out how we combine this approach with modern SAP application tools such as BPCembedded and SAC, where we facilitate simulations, scenario analyses and interaction among planners.

In rapidly changing market environments, up-to-date and accurate information is more important for decision-making than ever before. If CFOs are to successfully play their part in managing and monitoring their businesses, they need modern, highly automated management reporting systems to provide custom, reader-oriented reports.

Intelligent reporting solutions of the future are characterised by their ability to quickly, efficiently and automatically provide results tailored to the user’s needs, while at the same time ensuring standardised, directly comparable reports.  Â鶹ÊÓƵ Reporting 5.0 is one of these solutions: an app-based reporting with a self-learning, user-specific front end, integrated digital assistant, and an intelligent back-end for report optimisation for highly customised, reader-oriented reporting.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Finance and Data & Analytics experts are here to support you in developing your reporting of the future. Based on many years of experience in finance and implementation projects, we support you in the definition of key performance indicators, design dashboard processes and implement cutting-edge management dashboards. We can directly access live data from various  sources to report on data in almost real time. Check out our business analytics site for an overview of all our solutions.