Distinguish between external drivers (e.g. raw material & energy prices), which have little chance – if any – of influencing, and internal drivers (e.g. project costs), which you can control in every detail. Plan your success drivers and simulate their effects on your operating results, your balance sheet and your liquidity. Gain a better understanding of interdependencies, opportunities and risks.
SPEED UP YOUR PLANNING PROCESSES
Systematic planning is the basis for all controlling and management activities in companies. However, instead of investing hundreds of person days in protracted detailed planning processes, you should rather, when planning, concentrate on your success drivers. Do away with lengthy planning and budgeting processes and the unnecessary attrition of resources. You can use the driver-based planning approach and the comprehensive planning functions of the Cubeware Solutions Platform to establish a flexible model of planning that responds dynamically to change when necessary, conserves your resources and always supplies up-to-date information on the plan vs. actual situation.
- No annoying obligation to complete excessively detailed sub-plans
- No tedious attempts at explanations when actual data fail to match plan data
- No inhibitions about dealing with cash flow and balance sheet views
- Greater transparency about your strategic & operational goals
- More time for achieving targets & increasing your business success
- Greater flexibility in managing your company
Technically & Professionally Perfect Driver-Based Planning Solution
Every company generally has 10 to 15 success-related parameters that have a direct or indirect effect on their earnings, liquidity and financial situation. Reduce complexity and concentrate on your key drivers when planning. Use the Cubeware Solutions Platform and the driver-based planning experts from HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE. to implement a technically and professionally perfect, driver-based planning application in your company quickly and easily.
WOULD YOU LIKE A DRIVER-BASED MODEL OF PLANNING? THIS IS HOW WE PROCEED.
Working together with the planning experts from HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE. and the Cubeware Solutions Platform, you are only six steps way from driver-based business planning.
1. Proof of concept
Before each project we will hold a proof-of-concept meeting where we will use a predefined subset of your own data and structures to show you how quickly and easily it is to achieve initial results from a planning project using our driver based planning solution. Even before you commit to any investment.
2. Cause of change
When you have decided to implement a project with us: starting with your latest forecast, we work with you to list all the measures and planning assumptions or driver developments and consider the amount of their effects on important items in your income statement and balance sheet. This gives you a concrete representation of all the effects together with a plausible explanation of the plan. This will ultimately allow you to verify, adjust and modify your planning assumptions on an ongoing basis.
3. Horizontal integration
4. Vertical integration
Working together with specialist department managers, we create the desired sub-plans and integrate them into the central model of planning in such a way that any adjustments to the details have a simultaneous effect on the higher-level indicators. In this process, we make use of a comprehensive set of modular templates that drastically reduce the length of the project.
5. Simulation
Our Certified Partner HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE. (HRCIE.) is a business consultancy with management and top management as its target group. HRCIE. has long-standing experience from numerous planning and reporting projects. Business competence and excellence in implementation guarantee the success of your project. HRCIE. will support you with concepts and solutions for improving your decision-making and optimising your business management. To this end, HRCIE. works with the very best technological products in the field of business intelligence and performance management from reputable vendors including IBM and Microsoft in addition to Cubeware. The conclusion of the project involves the qualification of the customer team to enable them to use and develop the implemented solution without additional assistance.
