Business Planning and Forecasting



To manage performance effectively, business unit managers and line managers need timely data to quickly identify and analyze deviations from expected results. Making adjustments as needed, and dynamically refreshing the working plan, creates a flexible structure for managing your operations. Planning must be more than a tedious periodic exercise required by the corporate finance group, it must provide a valuable and useful model utilized by all stakeholders to measure business performance. Our consultants help you balance these needs and deliver a solution to maximize productivity across your organization.

We help you create integrated solutions to align your strategic, financial, and operational planning processes. Creating more accurate forecasts reduces the risk of adverse business impacts from missed estimates. Our best practices have been developed through years of experience across a wide range of industries, and are designed to reduce your cycle times, improve accuracy and controls, and provide more powerful and flexible analysis. Planning involves users throughout your organization, so it is critical to create an integrated and collaborative process which combines advanced modeling capabilities and data integrity with the Excel interface demanded by end users. Prognos’s approach blends people, process, and technology to ensure a complete solution that delivers value for all stakeholders.

Prognos consultants have delivered solutions using SAP BPC tools that helped clients:

  • Translate strategic goals into operational plans, evaluate competing requests for project funding, and track the effectiveness of capital investment decisions
  • Reduce budgeting and planning cycles by days and even weeks
  • Model profitability drivers to better allocate resources across customer segments, projects, and product lines
  • Implement a rolling forecast to provide a more accurate and predictable view of future operating results
  • Conduct what-if analysis and scenario comparisons to assess the real-time impact of changes in head count, salaries, and associated workforce expenses
  • Perform real-time calculations to analyze the impact of capital assets and related expenses on financial statements