My journey from being an ‘Excel-Crack’ Controller to Integrated Business Planning Consulting If you are working as a controller, you have probably seen Excel-filenames like these quite often: ‘Copy of Copy of Salesplan_Final_V2.xlsx’. So maybe you already know the troubles controller are going through during budget season. I used to work as an FP&A expert …
Why Austrian LIST GC starts a CPM project during a global crisis. Whereas it’s obvious that we will understand the full impact of the current COVID-19 crisis only ex-post, we have experienced throughout other exogenous shocks within the past 20 years, that standard procedures will not help us survive from a business perspective. Early adopters …
‘If you find yourself in a hole, you better stop digging.’ Read More »
Does that sound familiar?: We tend to delay our appointment with the dentist until it really hurts. It’s similar with us FP&A experts and CPM-Software: Deep in our hearts we know what we do with Excel is crazy, but still we hesitate to go for a fully-integrated CPM-System – until forecasting errors or some crisis …
What do Planning-Software and dentists have in common? Read More »
This is the time for acting, for captains who know how to deal with storms. In case your company manages to economically survive times like these, then it’s probably because of you. FP&A experts and their CPM systems make the difference in tough times – they prepare everything it needs to take the appropriate decisions. …
Short-time-work: Precise Forecasts help you out of the dark Read More »
An initially small, transparent project portfolio turns into a jungle-‘madness’ of projects over time. If this sounds familiar to you, we encourage you to start a change process – but what’s in for you? Julian Jirsak, Director Project Portfolio Management, Hamburg Airport, gets straight to the point: “If you have the courage to break up …
Last week we received a great picture from Mika – who we met on a business summit last autumn. He took along our adventurer mascot smartofant to the City Oulu. ‘The blue elephant has travelled far north, 200km south from Arctic Circle. He is looking south where the mid-winter sun is rising’ Mika told us. …
10 activities to manage this challenge effectively: First you must fight your lack of will power – decide actively that you want to improve financial planning processes! Consult a trainer – talk to our experienced consultants (>400 projects successfully closed) and find the pain points. At first it may hurt a little – break old …
Do you master the balancing act between precise planning and faster decision making? Read More »
Do you lose sales because your demand plan is not up to date? How do you set inventory targets? Do you track forecast accuracy? And … do you do any of this in Excel? Most companies need a quick response to the market and with Excel, as you can imagine, this is hard to do. …
S&OP Pain Points – How to balance supply and demand Read More »
We are happy to announce that S-IMMO AG, an ATX listed Austrian company, has decided to use smartPM.solutions for reporting and planning. S-IMMO AG is a real estate investment company and invests in Austria, Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. The property assets amounted to almost 2.1 billion Euros at the end of 2018. The …
“We demand a lot from a CPM tool …” S-IMMO AG decides for smartPM.solutions Read More »
Our blue mascot travels the world and wins the hearts of our customers and prospects from Singapore, on through Mexico, to Switzerland, and of course, Germany. The blue smartofant stands for our clever & powerful software solutions and for excellent consulting services. We are grateful for a whole bunch of smartofant photos we received from …
