Organizations engage in collaborative supply chain planning in order to have more accurate, timely and actionable information, including forecasts and stock-on-hand. The objective is to achieve lower costs and reduce risk while ensuring order fulfillment to achieve optimal supplier and customer relationships. Unfortunately, our research shows that that few companies manage collaboration well in their sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes. Today, S&OP software has become more accessible...
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Topics:
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Continuous Supply Chain & ERP
Planful, a financial planning and consolidation software vendor, held its annual Perform23 user conference in May. The event showcased the company’s ongoing investments to provide finance and accounting departments with the means to improve effectiveness by enhancing efficiency.
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Business Planning
The Office of Finance can be compared to a numbers factory where the main raw material, data, is transformed into financial statements, management accounting, analyses, forecasts, budgets, regulatory filings, tax returns and all kinds of reports. Data is the strategic raw material of the finance and accounting department. It is the key ingredient in every sale and purchase as well as every transaction of any description. Quality control is essential to achieving high standards of output in any...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
embedded analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data Management,
Business Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
data operations,
digital finance,
AI & Machine Learning,
operational data platforms,
Analytic Data Platforms,
Revenue, Lease and Tax Accounting,
Purchasing/Sourcing/Payments,
Consolidate/Close/Report