Business Planning

Business planning can encompass strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting and target setting. Effective business planning enables organisations to operate in a joined-up manner through top-down and bottom-up planning processes that improve business operations and reduce cost of failure. Business Planning represents significant challenges for many large organisations including the move towards rolling forecasting from highly inefficient and lengthy annual budgeting processes and the need to align business plans to the strategy.

However, the business planning challenge is not the same for all organisations. Some organisations want a straightforward high level financial planning solution; others are looking to fully integrate their internal (financial, sales & operations, marketing and HR) and external customer/supplier plans through a joined-up collaborative planning process: Whatever your position AgilityWorks can help.

AgilityWorks are experienced in designing and delivering planning solutions, from basic models through to fully integrated global business planning models. By its nature business planning can be relevant to all business functions and often it is inappropriately seen to be a purely financial deliverable. AgilityWorks offer roadmap services that help organisations define their vision for planning and deliver projects through incremental benefits realisation.

AgilityWorks leverage the SAP Group solution platform as the technology foundation including:

  • SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC)
  • SAP Integrated Planning (SAP IP)
  • SAP Business Planning and Simulation (SAP BPS)
  • SAP CRM In-place planning

AgilityWorks are experienced in the integration of planning solutions with other SAP planning applications (such as SAP APO for Supply Chain Planning and/or ERP for Financials/Project Planning) and non-SAP applications.