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Improving Demand Planning at Global Seed Agro
Streamlining IT/ITeS Business Planning: Enabling Better Decisions in Finance and Pricing
Empowering Asia’s Largest Services Marketplace through Adaptive Planning and Analysis
Precision Planning: Enabling Product Group Level Profitability For One Of India’s Largest Life Sciences Company
Streamlining SaaS Operations with Adaptive Planning and Reporting
SaaS – Case
FACTS
- Software in hundreds
- Detailed planning for Revenue by Channel and Product across various geographics
- Complex Capex models
- Complex models for computing Sales value
- Complex Workforce Cost calculations for various Locations and Grade
CHALLENGES
- Manual Excel spreadsheet process
- Subscription modelling for disparate software categories
- Complex Salary Calculations
- Complex models for computing various expenses such as Travel, Professional Fees, Rent Costs, etc
- Extremely complex reporting requirements, with graphical analysis of data in dashboards
SOLUTIONS
- Adaptive Planning
- Adaptive Reporting
RESULTS
- Elimination of complex spreadsheets
- Integration with NetSuite for creation of Various Dimensions, COA and Uploading Actuals
- Budget Cycle time cut by over 20%
- Automated payroll forecasts (Attrition, Backfill and New Hire)
- Complex models automated for Revenue, Software Subscription, Workforce, Sales Planning, Various Costs across Departments
- Flexible reporting framework for P&L Analysis across Actuals, Budgets, Forecasts
Empowering Asia’s Largest Services Marketplace through Adaptive Planning and Analysis-1
Services Marketplace – Case
FACTS
- Asia’s largest marketplace for home services with a network of 42k+ professionals
- 18 service categories across 6 geographics
- Detailed revenue planning for Regular Services as well as the Subscription model
- Complex models for computing Direct & Indirect Costs, and Workforce planning
CHALLENGES
- Manual Excel spreadsheet driven process
- Subscription modelling for disparate categories
- Unable to reflect complex models for computing/ allocating various costs e.g. Professional Onboarding costs
- Detailed planning, at the minutest of slices to drive multiple PL statements for Product and Services business
- Long delays in monitoring and analysis
SOLUTIONS
- Adaptive Planning
- Adaptive Reporting
- Adaptive Office Connect
- Adaptive Excel for Planning
RESULTS
- Elimination of complex spreadsheets
- Times Savings: Reporting Cycle time cut by 60-70%
- Subcategory-level profitability
- Automated Complex models for Revenue, Subscription, Workforce, various Costs, Product, and International businesses across service subcategories
- Income statement & P&L Analysis across Actuals, Budgets, Forecasts
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Streamlining IT/ITeS Business Planning: Enabling Better Decisions in Finance and Pricing
IT/ITeS – Case 2
FACTS
- 8500+ employees
- 4 BUs, 7 industry verticals
- 5 Geo Locations servicing customers across 30 countries
- Complex Workforce Cost Calculations for various Geos
- Complex Support Cost Allocations
- Multiple groupings of GL codes and dimensions for PL analysis
CHALLENGES
- Manual Excel spreadsheet process
- Multiple Versions
- Various P&L Structures
- Complex Allocations process across Geos, Business Segments, Projects and GL’s
- Complex Labor Cost Calculations
- Complex reporting requirements
SOLUTIONS
- Adaptive Planning
- Adaptive Reporting
- Adaptive Office Connect
- Adaptive Excel for Planning
RESULTS
- Elimination of complex spreadsheets
- Budget Cycle time cut by over 20%
- Deeper Analysis of Costs loaded on to Projects
- P&L Analysis across Actuals, Budgets, Forecasts at a Project level
- 100s of manhours saved every month in data collation and aggregations
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Precision Planning: Enabling Product Group Level Profitability For One Of India’s Largest Life Sciences Company
Case-1: Leading Life Sciences Company
FACTS
- ₹6000+ Cr Specialty Chemicals, Nutrition & Health Solutions, Chemical Intermediaries
- Global leader in supplying Acetic Anhydride
- More than 10000+ employees
- Multi-SBU, Multi-Plant
- Inter SBU Transactions
CHALLENGES
- Multiple iterations and constant Changes in Budgeting cycle
- Poor visibility on Plan Vs Actual Costs
- Long closing cycles
- No integration between their other ERP systems and the FP&A model
- Actuals Vs Plan Variance Analysis
USE CASES
- FP&A
- BOM Costing
- Cost-center planning
- OH Allocations
- Stock Valuation
- Subsidiary recon
- BS Planning
RESULTS
- Faster Month-End Close and Reconciliation
- Close and consolidate their Budgeting exercise flexibly and rapidly
- Limited to no time spent on manual consolidation of data and related calculations
- Variance Analysis [MTD, QTD and YTD basis between various versions and any month]
- A huge shift from ‘ask to Get’ to ‘View and Analyse’ for all the stakeholders
- MIS & Reporting standardized and available instantly
- Reconciliation automation with exception management
- Subsidiary P&L, Product Group P&L, BS and CF
African Leadership Unleashed (ALU) Case Study
Leading Software Services Provider on NetSuite platform in the APAC region