With SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management, you can realize the following benefits:

• Visibility into the real drivers of costs and profitability – By establishing cause and effect relationships between direct and indirect expenses and products and customers, you gain actionable insight into where profits are made and losses incurred so that business managers can focus resources to maximize the bottom line. Tangible cost savings and a focus on profitable business can help you quickly realize a compelling return on investment.
• Incisive decision making – Your business managers can access accurate and credible cost and profitability reports – empowering them to slice and dice data to identify the underlying causes of poor performance, and perform on demand queries and what-if analysis to test out the financial impact of possible changes before they commit to them. As a result, your managers can make faster, more incisive decisions – giving you the agility you need to stay ahead of market changes and outperform your peers.
• Alignment of resources and capacity – SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management modeling functionality quickly surfaces non-value-adding activities and pockets of excess capacity, helping you keep resources in step with fluctuating business volumes across front-line operations and back-office support functions.
• Higher-value cost and profitability reporting – SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management can enable the accurate costing and cross-charging of IT and other shared services, making business managers accountable for their use of shared services and encouraging behavior that will drive down indirect expenses.