Short-time Work, Cash Monitoring, Demand Push & Production Adjustment: Everything at once?

Why we start a CPM Project during a global crisis? ‘If you find yourself in a hole, you better stop digging.’ OR ‘Attack is the best form of defence.’ Both mottoes mean that we rather should act, since any crisis offers opportunities. Thus, and because of a proper backlog, we want to take our whole CPM (‘Corporate Performance Management’) Software architecture to the next level. We have invested a lot of time and effort for skilling up our team throughout the past years, now we want to support them with state-of-the-art software. That’s why we have selected smartPM.solutions as our preferred partner. We focus on the three main business requirements ‘Project Calculation’, ‘Project Management’ and ‘Integrated Business Planning’. Our main targets are process optimization, data/decision transparency increase and to unleash core competency of dedicated expert teams in our company. We want to get rid of VBA code, ‘impossible to understand Excel formulae’ and manual input overlap/inconsistency. That’s why we replace our historically grown reporting and planning framework with modern smartPM.solutions. As early adopters we expect major benefits and strong competitive advantages for LIST GC as a result of our cooperation with smartPM.’

“At Hillebrand we needed to adopt our Unit4 Prevero based CPM system quickly because we wanted to include in our reporting and forecasting system the COVID-19 impact estimates. That’s why we reached out to smartPM.solutions on Thursday. Their consultants started working on the requirements, and our system was up and running with the specified enhancements (we call it ‘COVID-19 impact overview’) in our productive environment next day afternoon. This is what I call agile and helpful.”