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The essential connection between your planning levels
Extended Planning & Analytics (xP&A)
Planning reliability, comparability, and efficient use of resources: With Extended Planning & Analytics (xP&A), companies integrate strategic and tactical planning. The SAP software solution is designed to unite planning levels and create a cohesive strategy.
Drive Innovation and Growth with xP&A
In today’s dynamic business environment, companies face the challenge of synchronizing strategic and tactical planning levels. It is essential to integrate planning figures, such as budgets from strategic planning, into subordinate processes in real-time and without system disruptions. Considering feedback from lower planning levels and thus enabling comparisons and improving planning accuracy.
Often, departments work with different units of measurement and goals, which cannot be aligned. While the finance department plans in Euros, the production thinks in units or liters. This leads to discrepancies in planning and missed business opportunities. A consistent, transparent process links budget and production planning for an efficient use of resources. The resulting productivity gains create the foundation for innovation and growth.
Integrated Planning Solutions for Your Business
Extended Planning & Analytics (xP&A) is our answer to this challenge. The software solution is designed to unify all planning levels of your organization and create a coherent business strategy. The integration includes:
Finance
Ensure transparency and consistency in financial and volume planning.
Sales
Optimize your sales strategies through seamless planning integration.
Production
Coordinate production plans efficiently with other business areas.
Logistics
Ensure your logistics team works hand in hand with production and sales.
Human Resources
Strategically plan workforce deployment in alignment with corporate goals.
xP&A expands the traditional Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) process. It connects financial planning with other business areas, such as sales, supply chain, and HR, synchronizing them in real-time. This not only improves planning reliability but also takes it a step further by incorporating additional metrics like operational readiness, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and customer acquisition, which are not reflected in financial reports. The result is a holistic, interconnected planning strategy that integrates the entire organization.
Efficiently Linking Value Streams and Volume Planning with xP&A
Sets out the company’s long-term financial strategy, including capital allocation, investments, and financing to ensure financial stability and growth over several years.
Determines the expected financial performance of a company based on current market conditions, historical data, and company-specific assumptions.
Assigns the optimal number and distribution of employees needed to achieve business goals, considering both current and future workforce requirements.
Provides a detailed roadmap for daily business operations, including schedules, budgets, and specific responsibilities, to achieve short-term goals.
Aims to optimize the long-term efficiency and resilience of the supply chain, simulating long-term investments and network changes.
A Sales & Operations Plan connects strategic planning with operational execution, ensuring strategic goals are embedded in volume planning.
Comprehensive workforce planning ensures that production and logistics have the right number of employees to meet business requirements.
Enables effective and optimized daily management of operations, covering all resources required to achieve short-term targets.
Breaking down Silos The valantic Vision
At valantic, we see the future of financial and supply chain planning as a strategic, tactical and operational process that works together across departmental boundaries. Together, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and SAP Datasphere provide a unified solution that enables finance and planning teams to analyze actual data, create better business plans and forecasts, and respond faster to change.
xP&A provides a process-oriented system architecture that enables all levels of planning to be integrated and managed so that your organization can act as one. With xP&A, you can not only focus on today’s requirements, but also set the course for the future.
A Holistic Business Overview in Real-Time
xP&A provides an integrated overview of plan (target) and performance (actual), breaking down departmental silos. It enables managers to understand the impact of their decisions across the organization. Thanks to a cross-functional business overview, managers can react more quickly to changes and seize opportunities more effectively. By automatically updating plans when changes occur, xP&A significantly reduces manual effort. This ensures continuous synchronization and a high degree of adaptability to dynamic conditions.
Financially-Driven Scenarios & Decision-Making Processes
To achieve sustainable business growth, it is essential to carefully analyse financially driven scenarios and make informed decisions. Evaluating planning scenarios in Euros enables companies to quantify the financial value of their strategic decisions. By integrating advanced analytics tools like SAC and IBP, companies can create precise forecasts and support strategic decisions based on solid financial data.
Setting the Course for a Successful Digital Transformation
How can you prepare your organization for the digital future? The key lies in leveraging data intelligence. By utilizing modern analytics tools and business intelligence platforms like SAC, IBP, and PP/DS, companies can gain insights that drive future-proof decisions. This data-driven approach minimizes risks, identifies opportunities, and enables appropriate strategic business decisions.
Example: System Overview
Adjustments to your system landscape and changes to interfaces are always possible. For further information and support, please contact us.
When will an xP&A Project pay-off for Your Business?
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Business Growth
When a business grows and planning processes become more complex, xP&A helps to integrate and streamline them.
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Digital Transformation
When your company undergoes a digital transformation and seeks to leverage modern, scalable, and flexible IT architectures.
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Breaking down Departmental Barriers
By promoting a holistic approach to financial, operational, and workforce planning, xP&A helps overcome organizational silos and optimizes cross-departmental collaboration for a more agile and efficient workflow.
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Responsiveness in Volatile Markets
xP&A provides precise, integrated data and analytics in real-time, significantly improving decision-making and positively influencing both strategic and operational outcomes
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Consolidation and Transparency
xP&A fosters company-wide transparency by providing a single, consolidated view of all planning processes. This makes it easier to monitor and control budgets, goals, and results.
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Proactive Risk and Opportunity Analysis
With powerful analytics capabilities, xP&A helps identify potential risks and opportunities early, facilitating a proactive and forward-looking management of the business.
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Future-Proofing and Innovation
xP&A opens opportunities for your company to develop innovative solutions using modern technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, enabling you to remain competitive and continuously evolve.
Best Practices for a Successful Implementation
Gain initial insights into the seamless integration of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) in our valantic webinar-on-demand!
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