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Line managers and finance staff are frustrated by the inability of spreadsheet-based planning systems to deliver useful budgets
and rolling forecasts. A major problem is the disconnect between the operational elements of business and financial plans.
What's missing is driver-based planning, a best-practi (...)
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Line managers and finance staff are frustrated by the inability of spreadsheet-based planning
systems to deliver useful budgets and rolling foreca... ...
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2010-03-11
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While planning is often seen as a time-consuming task, leading organizations have moved from the traditional spreadsheet-based
planning to implementing world-class planning, budgeting, and forecasting software, saving time, reducing errors, and improving
internal communication. This IBM white paper discu (...)
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While planning is often seen as a time-consuming task, leading organizations have moved from the traditional
spreadsheet-based planning to impleme... ...
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2011-02-25
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For dried fruit producer Sunsweet, a spreadsheet-based planning system just wasn’t working. After reviewing several solutions,
Sunsweet selected the Zemeter supply chain planning suite to eliminate the repetitive work involved in spreadsheet management.
Zemeter’s accurate forecasting and planning pro (...)
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For dried fruit producer Sunsweet, a spreadsheet-based planning system
just wasn’t working. After reviewing several solutions, Sunsweet selected t... ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can be an endless and arid process for business professionals. Spreadsheet-based
planning can prove to be confusing and unorganized, which only costs the company more time and money. IBM's Cognos software
can help not only reduce the time spent on planning p (...)
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Spreadsheet-based planning can prove... ... Spreadsheet-based
planning can prove to be confusing and unorganized, which only costs the company more time and money. ...
Published:
2011-02-25
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Over 80 percent of consultants in service organizations consider spreadsheet-based business plan modeling inadequate. Weak
client–partner relationships reflect this inadequacy. An integrated business planning and modeling platform can provide deeper
insight into a range of strategic and operational iss (...)
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... consider spreadsheet-based business plan modeling inadequate. Weak
client–partner relationships reflect this inadequacy. An integrated business planning and ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System
in relation to Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application. Spreadsheets can provide rudimentary business performance
management (BPM) capabilities. But there are many reas (...)
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From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System
in relation to Sprea...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Everything you always wanted to know about Customer Services.Get this whitepaper for Absolutely free! Fetco Home Decor, designer
and wholesaler of fashion frames and other décor products, was relying on Excel spreadsheets to perform its forecasting process.
The lack of accuracy and accessibility resulted (...)
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Everything you always wanted to know about Customer Services.Get this whitepaper for Absolutely free! Fetco Home Decor, designer
and wholesaler of ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Increasingly, every user company's success is contingent upon its ability to make an almost immediate finished product or
service delivery to customers. As supply chains become more dynamic and operate in near real-time, the lines between planning
and execution continue to blur, which bodes well for thei (...)
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Increasingly, every user company's success is contingent upon its ability to make an almost immediate finished product
or service delivery to cust...
Published:
2004-07-01
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Established in 2002, Fibrelogic is now Australia’s leading fiberglass pipe company. Recognizing that its spreadsheet-based
systems—for everything from inventory management to financials—were delaying month-end reporting, the company
implemented the PRONTO-Xi enterprise resource planning (ER (...)
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... Recognizing that its spreadsheet-based systems—for everything from
inventory management to ... implemented the PRONTO-Xi enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Enterprise Performance Management for Small and Medium Businesses. Search for Information and Other Software Related to Enterprise
Performance Management. Small to medium businesses (SMBs) often face the same challenges as large businesses—just on a smaller
scale. One such challenge is finding a busines (...)
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Enterprise Performance Management for Small and Medium Businesses. Search for Information and Other Software Related to Enterprise
Performance Mana...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Companies relying on manual implementation and support for lean and world class methodologies risk losing corporate consciousness.
Avoid the pitfalls of lost information and flexibility; place value on performance gaps and create matrixes of tools and applications
to prioritize issues. (...)
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Companies relying on manual implementation and support for lean and world class methodologies risk losing corporate consciousness.
Avoid the pitfa...
Published:
2005-09-23
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of sales and operations planning (S&OP) game plans. (...)
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions...
Published:
2004-03-26
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Monitoring your Business Vital Signs: a Guide for Engineer-to-Order and Project-Based Manufacturers. Templates and Other Dynamic
System to Use In Your Organization with a Guide for Engineer-to-Order and Project-Based Manufacturers. Keeping track of your
key business indicators is the difference between a (...)
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Monitoring your Business Vital Signs: a Guide for Engineer-to-Order and Project-Based Manufacturers. Templates and Other Dynamic
System to Use In Y...
Published:
2010-03-11
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By being able to address the needs of all stakeholders across the tiers of the supply chain network, and with the marketplace/private
trading exchange (PTX) tool as well, PipeChain can connect trading partners at various levels of the supply chain and deliver
a value proposition of information connectivi (...)
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By being able to address the needs of all stakeholders across the tiers of the supply chain network, and with the marketplace/private
trading exch...
Published:
2002-01-01
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Companies with large sales forces, huge product portfolios, and complex incentive plans with many variables need to offer
variable pay. This has created opportunities for a new enterprise software category called enterprise incentive management
(EIM), or incentive compensation management (ICM). (...)
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Companies with large sales forces, huge product portfolios, and complex incentive plans with many variables need to offer
variable pay. This has c...
Published:
2006-11-30
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are improving their analytic capabilities and accessibility. (...)
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Current pure play business intelligence (BI) leaders offer the advantage of superior analytics and planning capabilities;
however, enterprise reso...
Published:
2005-07-14
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... incentive compensation calculation and management, quota planning, territory management
... nutshell, today’s manual and spreadsheet-based incentive compensation
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Published:
2008-08-11
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Unified planning and consolidation streamline planning and deliver a faster close.Boost your business with epm software solutions.
Executive teams are under great pressure to maximize profitability, reduce costs, minimize risk, and improve stakeholder confidence.
To be effective, they need reliable, up-to (...)
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Unified Planning and Consolidation. Source: SAP. Document Type: White Paper Description: Executive teams
are under great pressure ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Having a system that can support mix-mode manufacturing without the need for artificial constraints would mean that the technology
is available to offer on demand manufacturing enterprise resource management to the marketplace. (...)
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Having a system that can support mix-mode manufacturing without the need for artificial constraints would mean that the technology
is available to...
Published:
2007-01-17
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Companies can get the latest on supply chain management trends—from inventory management, forecasting, and sales and operations
planning—at the annual APICS Conference and Expo’s seminars and presentations. A summary of the 2009 expo explains what you
might have missed. (...)
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Companies can get the latest on supply chain management trends—from inventory management, forecasting, and sales and operations
planning—at the an...
Published:
2009-10-28