"Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability"
What should you do to manage pricing and profitability effectively? Read this research paper about the essentials for success: the right costing methodology, the right information, and the right analytical tools. (Ventana, 2008)
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White Papers
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"Cost and Profitability Reporting: Complementary Strengths of SAP Solutions"
Empower your users and your organization with integrated transaction and analytic solutions from SAP, including SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management. Find out how to take advantage of their complementary strengths to gain a deep understanding of the levers affect organizational costs and profitability.
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Solution in Detail
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"Customer, Product, and Channel Profitability Analysis"
Learn how activity-based costing can enable a deep understanding of the cost of running a business and how it leads to more accurate profitability and cost analyses of dimensions such as customers, products, and channels. Leverage data to form a complete picture and generate results for more incisive decision making.
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Thought Leadership
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"Driving Profitability in Turbulent Times with Agile Planning and Forecasting"
Read the results of a survey of 231 senior finance executives, from a broad range of company segments, to better understand the impact that economic uncertainty is having on the finance function
and its role in developing accurate forecasts and actionable plans. (CFO Research Services, 2009)
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"Integrated Services Costing and Performance Management"
Read how you can gain insight into IT costs by adopting an activity-based costing methodology and deploying an application capable of managing the true dimensionality of the costs involved. With more frequent reforecasting, your IT department can align its resources and operational capacity with business-unit needs.
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Thought Leadership
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"Manage Organizational Costs and Optimize Profitability"
See how managers can gain a deeper understanding of the levers affecting organizational costs and profitability with software from SAP BusinessObjects. They can align operational resources with demand and increase revenues by focusing on the most profitable products, customers, and distribution channels.
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Solution Briefs
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"Performance Matters: Towards Transparent, Accountable, and Effective Delivery of Public Services"
Read this strategy paper from the Center for Digital Government explaining why performance matters in public services, where objectives must be delivered in a transparent, accountable and effective way. (Center for Digital Government, 2008)
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"Product Environmental Footprint and Ecolabeling"
Does your interest in environmental footprinting stem originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities? If so, this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over the environment, environmental footprinting has grown in business importance.
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SAP InSight
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"Rate Life-Cycle Management for Utilities"
Find out how applications for rate life-cycle management from SAP can help your utility organization to maximize rates of returns by aligning corporate strategies with rate strategies. The software helps you establish an integrated framework for managing costs, budgets, rates, and strategy execution.
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Solution Briefs
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"SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management: Lean Accounting for the Lean Enterprise"
Has your firm gone through a lean transformation successfully, but is struggling to develop meaningful costing and value stream performance measurements? Read how SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management can provide you with "lean accounting" tools for relevant, timely information that promotes lean behavior.
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Solution Briefs
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