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Given the speed at which today’s markets and business conditions change, it is critical that business planning and forecasting methodologies be flexible and adaptable. A rigid planning approach, burdened by dozens of independent spreadsheets, poses too much risk for version inconsistency and is often far too static to adequately react to shifts in the business.
OPI works with third-party, SaaS-based, integrated business planning tools that bring predictability, consistency, availability, and accuracy to even the most complex budgeting and forecasting processes.
Consolidated Platform
We work with our clients to select tools that simplify the planning process and offer a single platform for consolidation of disparate budgets. Consolidated business planning offers consistency in presentation and data, as well as on-demand access with assurance that users are always viewing the latest and most up-to-date versions. By leveraging complementary budgeting models across the organization, roll-up and consolidation take place with greater accuracy and reliability. Management gains improved visibility and transparency into company-wide forecasts and performance, while maintaining control, data security, and performance through user-rights based access.
Intelligent Planning
Most importantly the consolidation of consistent data allows for easy, on-demand forecasting, analysis, and scenario modeling. Automated reporting and dashboard-based scorecards offer insight into performance by business unit, product or service, or other cross-section, while rolling forecasts enable more accurate supply chain planning. With such data at management’s fingertips, companies are able to not only adjust their business for their current environment, but they are also able to adjust their future plans. The template based structure allows for management to easily implement enhancements to the model and apply changes company-wide across all budgets.
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