Turning Strategy

               Into Action

Strategic Planning and Simulation provides business unit portfolio management, scenario-based simulation, strategic profitability planning, financials statement planning, corporate investment planning, integration with operational planning, planning workbench, and planning monitor.

BUDGETING & PLANNING

The strategic planning and simulation capability manages your business by looking forward and creating an effective strategy. Features include:

• Flexible online analytical processing (OLAP) -- Lets you create plans that meet your individual business needs.
• Analytical Planning Workbench -- Contains ready-to-use business modeling processes that use a comprehensive planning language and a flexible user interface for collaborative budgeting, rolling forecasts, and simulation.
• Preconfigured applications -- Support financial statement, sales and profit, resource, liquidity, investment, cost center, and portfolio planning.
• Long-term planning and simulation -- Improves your business forecasting methods by considering business time-delays, feedback of decisions, and dynamic effects in complex situations.

ACTIVITY BASED MANAGEMENT

ABM is a decision support system for operational and strategic resource optimization problems, more accurate cost estimates and strategic cost management. It helps the user to interpret information and, on the basis of models, to establish hypotheses and interrelationships. You can build ABM models in SAP SEM and import the data which you get by running these models into SAP BW. This will enable you to handle your business through ABM methodology. You can implement it quickly due to its simplicity and flexibility.

• Resource modeling.
• Activity modeling.
• Cost object modeling.
• Budgeting and planning.
• Simulation.
• Decision support.