Connect • Synchronize • Outperform
Do more than just build a budget. Orchestrate execution across the business and increase the visibility of performance across your organization to make better decisions. Embed advanced modelling and predictive analytics to surface data-driven insights that will help you to take action faster.
The sales forecast is the most critical input to the financial forecast, especially in B2B organizations, and can be the primary driver of strategy. When pushing down revenue targets from the corporate plan, it is vital to align operationally. Maximize performance by quickly balancing demand and supply alternatives using best practices.
Workforce costs are frequently the most significant operating expense, but the ability to model a change in costs based on a new strategic imperative is frequently time-consuming and disconnected. Can you quickly model answers to critical questions like “what is the cost implication if we moved these roles from location a to location b?”.
To maximize the ROI of projects and de-risk their delivery requires a complete view of a project’s expenses, resource needs, and financial performance - a connected approach. Combining your projects, workforce plan, capital expense plan, and financial plan ensures each plan reflects the latest changes across all of them, which improves decision making.
Integrated planning and execution (IBPX) is a specific approach to planning for the unique needs of manufacturing businesses. The IBPX architecture extends the principles of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) throughout the supply chain into product and customer portfolios, customer demand and strategic planning to deliver one seamless execution and analytics system.
Connect • Synchronize • Outperform
Connected Planning better aligns operational planning with your financial performance. It is a platform-centric strategy that extends FP&A use cases beyond finance by incorporating functional applications to unify data, processes, collaboration and core planning activities. The result is greater visibility and decision-making, driving improved business performance.
Integrated Business Planning and Execution (IBPX) is a specific architecture designed for manufacturing businesses designed around three core capabilities:
Plan — connect all planning activities across financial, projects, capital, workforce, sales & operations and supply chain planning into a single integrated platform: overlay top-down and bottom-up strategic targets.
Execute — a cock-pit view of execution gives leaders the critical tools they need to maximize profit winners. Provide multiple simulations and what-if analysis of future scenarios to evaluate alternative strategies to maximize the probability of meeting targets.
Monitor & Adjust — connect every aspect of the value chain to provide near real-time monitoring of critical systems and sensors (IoT). Apply machine learning and advanced analytics to unexpected events to receive recommendations on addressing issues to get back on track to hit targets faster.
It’s not science fiction. You can achieve touchless forecasting using intelligent automation; replacing spreadsheets with a connected planning platform is just the tip of the iceberg.
Don’t waste time loading actuals. Automatically see actual data from operational or financial systems surface into your planning platform and review the most likely plan calculated by the data science capabilities. This approach increases forecast accuracy and significantly decreases time spent on forecasting.
Intelligently monitor your plan and receive notifications of any anomalies, trends, or issues that need immediate action. Instead of spending valuable time recreating your plans or forecasts, you can spend time making critical decisions and taking action.
There is no need for a big bang approach. Set the pace and timing of your transformation journey by starting in one area, for example, longer-term corporate planning, before adding on or enabling new modules when it is right for your business.
Avoid the mistake of trying to build customized solutions or adding bolt-ons to other apps. This approach results in siloed applications, increased risk, longer implementation times, and often failed transformations.
Qubix has helped hundreds of businesses to transform their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
We can provide an end-to-end solution. Perhaps you want to start with a Maturity Assessment of your current processes to define and budget a roadmap for change? Or you are ready to begin connecting your siloed planning applications today? We can help.
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We’ve helped hundreds of companies large and small achieve their connected planning vision.
After acquiring U.S.-based Wornick Foods and plans to reach £500m in annual revenue, Baxters needed to streamline its finance systems to integrate multiple data sources and systems into a new cloud planning platform.
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Achieves a global view of its business to drive better decisions. ETI implemented an enterprise-wide solution, building a full suite of internal and external-facing reports combining data from many key business units.
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Unior is one of the largest manufacturers in Slovenia. Qubix designed and implemented an enterprise-wide platform to increase executive insight into core drivers of profitability and underlying performance.
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Moves to Planning in the cloud to deliver improved financial visibility. Allied Irish Bank eliminates its reliance on large, complex and error-prone spreadsheets with planning in the cloud to reduce risks, improve data accuracy and deliver monthly forecasts.
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adopting an integrated planning, budgeting and forecasting solution covering finance, supply chain, and HR to support new business growth.
Drives finance effectiveness with planning in the cloud. West Midlands Trains speeds up the period-end reporting process and enhances control for forecast and budget preparation.
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