ERP Planning and Forecasting

Once carried out by a financial director and a few accountants, budget planning is becoming more of a company-wide effort thanks to the latest software, with a greater number of managers and employees contributing to the process. Many companies are using technology to combine the traditional bottom-up approach to budget preparation, in which department heads submit budget requests that are rolled up into a corporate budget, with a top-down approach in which budgets are prepared in line with strategic objectives outlined by top management. And while annual budgets were once as unchanging as a statue, more companies now view budgets as living documents that are revised on an ongoing basis throughout the year.

Corporate Planner

For more sophisticated requirements including risk management and full blown Corporate Performance Management.

Corporate Planner is the number one planning and forecasting tool in Germany which M4 Systems has integrated with Dynamics GP. It offers similar capability to Hyperion and Cognos but at a reasonable mid-market price. It's amazingly powerful, yet easy to use for developing budgets and forecasts. Features include actuals, other budgets, regression analysis, profiles, complex calculations, assumptions, etc. It's ideal for portfolio analysis and planning situation modelling, including 'what if' scenarios. It's also an incredible reporting tool, enabling you to quickly spot trends and critical pre-built 80/20 analysis, break-even analysis, KPI's and more.

Microsoft Forecaster

Dynamics GP Advanced Management includes Microsoft Forecaster - the comprehensive planning and forecasting tool that allows unlimited budgets, forecast and scenarios to be created based on historical and/or modelling data, such as pay rates, quantities and so on. Enables multiple people to collaborate with comprehensive versioning control.