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SAP,
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Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
budget,
Budgeting,
XBRL,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
agile,
budgeting software,
CEO,
Corporate Finance,
Financial Performance Management,
Integrated Business Planning
Alight Planning sells planning and budgeting software mainly to midsize companies and stresses its software’s ability to support a more effective approach to corporate planning and budgeting. It calls this “agile planning,” a term used to contrast a traditional, highly deterministic method of drawing up and executing plans with an “agile” mindset that is better able to deal with the high level of economic volatility that most businesses confront today. In many respects Alight’s approach is...
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Topics:
Planning,
Forecast,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
budget,
Budgeting,
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
agile,
budgeting software,
CEO,
Integrated Business Planning
It turns out that some consumer goods manufacturers and retailers are having a hard time finding space on container ships and even finding containers to ship in. This has driven up the cost of shipping these items and at times resulted in deliveries arriving too late for scheduled promotions or seasonal demand peaks. This, during a time of constrained consumer spending in North America and Europe and an extended period where the Baltic Dry Index (a measure of shipping rates for bulk commodities...
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Topics:
Planning,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Budgeting,
IBP,
Financial Performance Management (FPM)
Anyone who has had to regularly produce a written business forecast that goes out more than a couple of months understand all too well Yogi Berra’s famous observation: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Certainly the economic events of the past two years have regularly made forecasts obsolete in a very short period of time. Using the wisdom of crowds can help the accuracy of forecasts in some cases because the impacts of individual biases are largely cancelled out....
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Topics:
Big Data,
Planning,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
IBP,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM)