PLANNING

In today’s complex and fast moving business world, finance executives cannot restrict themselves to merely build budgets and follow the numbers. Their roles extends to been the best business advisor to the CEO and to suggest the plan that support strategic goals and drive key business divisions. To action that could improve sales as well as profits either by a change in pricing strategy or investments in new marketing initiatives. CONTROL® facilitates it by providing greater transparency into the business thus driving corporate performance.

Features
	Collaborative environment, multi user participation
	Easy to use, business driven planning models, templates via MS Excel front end or browser based environment with zero learning curve
	User driven menus
	Top-Down and Bottom-Up data entry
	Easy to use business intelligence features like Top 5 products, customer, brands, Mix Analysis, Ranking e.t.c
	Instant data collection and consolidation from different departments, SBU’s, divisions, regions, etc across the enterprise
	Collaborative forecasting and bi-directional( horizontal and vertical) communication managing interaction between plan and stake holders
	Powerful planning functions including back solve (eg the sales target is 25k units/year, which will be spread across the months equally or by defined proportion/trend )
	Out of the box, Multi currency planning templates for functional and reporting currency

Benefits
	True Multi- User tool CONTROL® can handle from few to thousands of planners who participate in the budgeting process and make changes as well. CONTROL® supports audit trails that help to keep a track of the changes and revert to the original numbers if necessary.
	“ What if “ Powerful features such as Lock, Back solve, transform wizard helps to perform various what-if scenarios. The impact of the change on one business measure would be reflected on all the dependent measures instantaneously. Also, since all the models are inter-linked, the effect will also be reflected on the financial statements such as balance sheet, cash flows, KPI’s thus providing better insight on the future performance.
	Back Solve Powerful planning functions including back solve (eg the sales target is 25k units/year, which will be spread across the months equally or by defined proportion/trend), transform wizard, consolidations, and multi-currency, multi-user
	Top Down and Bottom-Up Planning CONTROL® supports both top-down and bottom-up planning and can measure the variance between the two thus facilitating better alignment with the corporate strategy. This also enables the enterprise to achieve the targets and minimize the variance.
	Unlimited Planning models Planning can be achieved for the current fiscal year on a detail or minute level such as daily plan. CONTROL® also supports multi-year planning and there are no restrictions to the number of years in the application. Planning can be done for 3, 5, 10, ‘n’ years at the same time either at a detailed level or at a higher level such as monthly or yearly.
	Complete Integrated financial models Models in CONTROL® are interlinked which addresses the entire corporate performance management process. Some examples of models are Strategic Planning, Revenue Planning, Manpower Planning, Expense Planning, Capital Planning, Production planning, Resource planning, Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash flow consolidation, Management reports, Other financial reports, variance analysis etc. And, this model can import actual data for variance analysis
	Driver based planning CONTROL® facilitates driver based planning which enables business unit heads to improve on their efficiency, timeliness, accuracy and the authenticity of the data.
	Sub-Set Hierarchies
	Built in spread patterns wizard CONTROL® allows spreading the target across the dimensions in a specific pattern such as the trend of last year for a given combination of product, customer, region. CONTROL® can also store at the frequently used patterns as a library to expedite the budgeting, planning, forecasting and analysis process.
	Multi-currency CONTROL® supports the entry of data in any currency and the automatic conversion to another currency using month end rates, month beginning rates, average rates, blended historical rates or any other designated rate.