Planning & ForecastingSPF Plus enables organisations to optimise enterprise wide budgeting, planning and forecasting processes. SPF Plus adapts to the complete range of budgeting, planning and forecasting requirements, with the ability to model information and dimensions that reflect any range of business structures or methodologies, including zero-based, incremental etc. Including real-time planning, real-time consolidations, real-time reporting and real-time analysis, SPF Plus provides a single integrated solution and a robust methodology for complete financial management. Features at a glance:
" We use SPF Plus because we have 70 users of whom only a few are accountants and we can't hold their hands. They've got to do it themselves. We need something that's pretty intuitive, robust, and where it's easy to understand what's going on. "
Bottom-Up BudgetingSPF Plus includes standard trending methods such as "percent change", "evenly spread" or spreads based on another scenario or line item. Custom trending methods can easily be defined with point-and-click ease such as "Weeks in Month", "Business Days", "Quarterly in Advance", "Linear Growth", "Seasonal" or whatever trending or phasing reflects your business needs. These methods allow planners to input values for multiple time periods and quickly develop multiple "what-if" scenarios through any of the pre-defined or customised trending methods.
Top-Down RevisionsDuring the review of the completed plan, SPF Plus can apply multiple Top-Down revisions to the original Bottom-Up plan. These Top-Down revisions can be applied at any level, to all or only a select group of elements in a model. Multiple revisions can also be applied and stored, leaving the original plan intact. For example, decrease budgeted Total Expenses for the group by 10% and SPF Plus recalculates the impact on every underlying line item, entity, month, region etc. Alternatively, apply unique increases or decreases to individual divisions and line items to create a hybrid revision incorporating multiple Top-Down changes. Top-Down can also be used to create a base planning scenario which can then be adjusted using the Bottom-Up capability of SPF Plus.
WorkflowIntegrated workflow provides planners and management the means to collaborate at each stage of the planning process. Everyone involved is informed on a need-toknow basis. Planners record the status of their plan - "not started", "in progress", "submitted", "accepted" or "rejected". Management at all levels can determine at a glance the status of all plans relevant to them. When a plan is submitted, the manager is notified via email that it is ready for review. Likewise, if a plan is rejected, the planner is notified of this. " We are astonished at the level of financial and sales detail TM1 has given us on our
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