LET'S EMBRACE NOT REPLACE EXCEL

Many planning professionals, whether in finance or line-of-business roles, have a love/hate relationship with their spreadsheets. They love the flexibility and the familiarity of a tool that’s been around for decades. But when they try to use spreadsheets for large-scale planning and performance management, multiple issues arise. Errors creep in when data is keyed in or numbers are cut and pasted from one cell to another. Version control is a nightmare. And when users want to include more participants in the process—a well-established best practice in planning—the process can become cumbersome and unwieldy. Join ActionKPI and IBM as we demonstrate how spreadsheets can be used for complex, large-scale planning environments by leveraging its capabilities within IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel.
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About Action KPI

ActionKPI is a Performance Management Company specialized in Modern Finance, Integrated Planning, and Data Sciences. Our team of Profitability Architects (CMA’s / CPA’s) adds more speed, agility, foresight, and collaboration to the planning process for the enterprises we serve. We have taken our passion, and mastery of finance, and flipped the model for the modern financial professional on its head. We realized that as financial professionals ourselves, nobody entered this arena to toil away on procuring data, building systems, and entrenching processes alone. Analysis of business, strategy, and ultimately Action, is what drives real change. The other things… critical means to a prized end. So, we always ask, “Is there a better way, and can it be easier?”

How We Can Help

Integrated Planning for the Modern Finance Professional

Finance

Finance teams can’t be agile with a manual, error-prone, and fragmented financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process. In order to take Action in real time, you need the ability to synthesize information from all data sources, deliver insights, and turn Insight into integrated plans faster than ever.

Corporate Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Operational Planning

Strategic Planning

Operations

Reduce cost, increase efficiency, and improve margins…easier said than done with manual tools and siloed business processes. A single source of truth is vital for accurate planning. Easy-to-use data visualization, flexible plans that adapt to market demands, and fast what-if scenario assessments are crucial.

Supply Chain Planning

S&OP Planning

Capacity & Inventory

Marketing

Marketing teams can be fragmented and disconnected from sales. This can lead to misalignment with overall marketing goals and misallocated spend on the wrong elements of the marketing mix. Unite silos with one source of truth. Build dynamic plans, with deep insight, that align to both marketing and organizational objectives.

Promotion Planning

Revenue Planning

Profitability Analysis

Human Resources

Workforce planning in spreadsheets is time-consuming and constraining. It’s often necessary to implement changes and make updates to plans across multiple worksheets, which can be complicated and have a high risk of error. Align HR, Finance, and Operations from a central repository of information. Link departmental needs with organizational objectives.

Workforce Planning

Workforce Optimization

Salary and Compensation Planning

Sales

A misalignment between finance, marketing, and sales leads to investment in the wrong initiatives and missed opportunities. Integrate your teams to create a 360° view of your data. Make better decisions about territory planning and quota assignments. Identify resource gaps quickly so that you can connect sales-capacity needs with HR recruiting.

Forecasting

Quato Planning

GTM & Strategy