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What is SAP Analytics Cloud Planning Solutions?

Multiple source information consolidation and form a different companys areas to later analyze and be able to budget and plan, is a challenge for the finance team of any corporation that doesn´t have the correct tools.

SAC Planning Solutions is a SAP data analytics solution designed to help finance and planning areas to data collect and analyse with the propose of getting the best budget planning strategy.



CHALLENGES IN PLANNING AND BUDGETING

  • Lack of a system that allows the economic-financial planning cycle to be carried out. 

  • Significant manual human effort, generally in excel spreadsheet administration, which increases the possibility of errors. 

  • Little capacity to manage “macro variables”. 

  • Multiple information sources that serve as the base for monitoring management indicators. But of complex extraction. 

  • Non-unified database, where the information is consolidated for analysis and management reports. 


BENEFIts

Smart Planning on CLOUD! 

  • Easy to use, 100% cloud and intuitive interface. Excel layout for loading information. 

  • Reporting for deviation analysis and budgeting (real and historical information). Friendly modeling and simulations.  

  • Unified planning and analysis in a single interface. Automatic or manual collection of information, reducing maintenance and providing data integrity. 

  • Independent users in terms of loading their information, modelling, reporting and processes. 

  • Business processes guided by Business Process Flows, which allows to configure and define each milestone, facilitating communication and monitoring of each step in the process with collaborative tools. 

  • Open and adaptable application. SAP and non-SAP integration, cloud and on-premise environments. 


FINANCIAL PLANNING WITH SAC PLANNING

  • Daily cash flow monitoring. Systems integrated

  • Payment and collection simulation scenarios

  • Short-term business planning 

  • Early liquidity problems detection 

  • Investment projects viability analysis 

  • Payments and collections simulations 

  • Early detection of payment dates 

  • Payments types identification and collections types available


SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD (SAC)

  • Business Intelligence (BI)

    Remove silos, and easily explore information across the entire organization, with intuitive self-service features. Deliver insights to collaborators and partners for decisions point with dynamic and interactive stories.

  • Interactive Planning 

    Optimize core financial and operational planning, turning plans into actions. Design better and more dynamic business models with built-in workflows, based on bias-free insights and interactive simulations.

  • AI & Predictive Analytics 

    Bring hidden insights to the surface with machine learning tools, simplify access to critical information with Natural Language Processing, and easily model complex scenarios with powerful predictive capabilities.


COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISE PLANNING

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