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. […]
Way north – where is he now again? 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.
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The ATX-listed Austrian company S-IMMO takes it’s existing, spreadsheet based approach to the next CPM-level: true integrated business planning.
“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
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According to Darwin’s (1809-1882) theory of evolution “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Digital transformation in FP&A departments turns disruptive. Irrespective of company size or industry, Finance departments are looking for technology to help them
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Great news! Alexander Springer, co-founder of the Business Intelligence (BI)- and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) vendor prevero, who has been prevero’s CEO for more than 20 years until the company was sold to Unit4 in 2016, agreed to take a stake in and act as Non-Executive Partner for smartPM.solutions. It’s a pleasure and extraordinary honor
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Apparently many companies are confronted with the same challenges – finding an alternative to the excessive use of Excel, more precise forecasts and the way to truly integrated business planning. Last week we contributed to the “4th Global S&OP to Integrated Planning Summit” and the “Finance 4.0 – Finance Digitalisation and Transformation Summit” in Amsterdam
Vast Demand for Digital Transformation Support in S&OP and Finance Read More »
Another month passed and another Sales Forecast Meeting ahead of us. The picture is often the same: Frantic Sales Directors and Sales Controllers trying to pull all the information together from the different sources like CRM, ERP, countless Excel-files only to realize that deals have slipped once again. We and most of our customers faced
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Soon, supply chain planning will be one of the areas most influenced by artificial intelligence. More than ever before will data determine the landscape of the supply chain and be responsible for organizational changes and the rise of business models. We were able to identify the three elements, which will build the basis for this
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Do you think your forecasts have a good fit? The founders of the association ‘AI Austria’ want to support Austria to become a leading player in the field of Artificial Intelligence. This includes research in technical, social and ethical questions as well as the practical application of AI in companies. Artificial intelligence is no longer
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