Oracle Strategic Operational Planning

Oracle Business Intelligence BI Software: Enterprise Performance Management EPM Application : Oracle Strategic Operational Planning

Align Operational Feasibility With Financial Goals
Oracle Strategic Operational Planning enables the alignment of key operational planning processes with financial planning to provide a common perspective across financial and operational plans. It addresses a range of high-value planning processes, such as demand-supply alignment, product allocation and integrated revenue planning, which are supported poorly with spreadsheet tools today. The solution is based on an innovative change-based data modeling engine that allows rich cross-functional modeling and interactive business impact analysis at an enterprise scale. It complements existing financial and supply chain planning systems by linking these functional plans into an integrated business planning framework. This allows planners across business functions to change operational assumptions, re-evaluate planning scenarios, assess business impact, and rapidly update the plan of record.

BENEFITS

• Align financial and operational plans—Identify and resolve critical gaps between financial and operational plans by linking functional plans, planning models and assumptions in an integrated framework.
• Achieve consensus across functions—Manage cross-functional collaboration and approval workflows to share planning assumptions and decisions throughout the organization.
• Understand business-wide impact of plan revisions—Assess the impact of plan alternatives on key financial and operational metrics. Establish financial desirability as well as operational feasibility of plans and drive fact-based decisions.
• Reduce planning cycles and improve productivity—Leverage technology for rapid cross-functional modeling, interactive scenario analysis and dynamic planning to compress decision cycles.
• Leverage existing financial and supply chain planning solutions—Complement functional planning and execution systems and integrate relevant data and master data from these systems to provide an environment for integrated business planning. Submit plan changes back to planning and execution systems for immediate action.

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