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Smart Financial Planning: Reducing silos between Supply Chain and Finance

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Smart Financial Planning is a Deloitte accelerator, powered by SAP IBP and SAP Analytics Cloud, allowing immediate visibility into the financial impacts of supply chain planning decisions.

Most of our clients who need to measure financial impacts encounter the following difficulties:
 

  • Due to the disconnected nature of planning processes at enterprise level, planners usually do not get overall impact of their plan.
  • The immediate impacts of supply chain and financial planning on one another cannot be seen.
  • Easy simulation of the financial plan is not possible.

 

What are the advantages of Smart Financial Planning?
 

  • Cloud-based supply and financial plans with seamless integration.
  • Sales and Operations planning (S&OP) is complemented by finance integration in SAC analytics to permit confident, data-driven decisions.
  • Leveraging the embedded synergy of integrated business planning (IBP) and SAC to ensure transparent supply chain planning.
  • Flexible and standard method for importing data from IBP to SAC, and vice versa.
  • User-friendly central interface to manage the process with clear accountability set up for demand and financial planning.

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If you are currently facing one or more of the above difficulties, please feel free to contact us and we will be glad to provide you with more details about Smart Financial Planning.

Thank you to the key contributors to this article: Vladimir Dorodnitsyn, Michal Kompas and Cosmin Pop.