Collaborative Enterprise Planning
What is collaborative enterprise planning?
Collaborative enterprise planning is the process of connecting and aligning plans from all departments and business units across your organisation. It breaks down silos and brings your teams together to collaborate on plans and drive better business outcomes.
What does this mean for EPM?
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) or Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a top-down driven strategy and management of performance approach, which has become less relevant as enterprises need agile planning to break down silos, connect everyone, and improve business outcomes. This is why, Collaborative Enterprise Planning (CEP) has become a strategic imperative in today’s hyper-competitive business climate.
Turn real-time insight into action, ensure strategic alignment, and decide confidently.
Improve planning accuracy and insights
Collaborative enterprise planning is a methodology that connects all planning activities of a company’s departments and business units, enabling them to share their plans and to plan collaboratively.
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Why collaborative enterprise planning?
Collaborative enterprise planning allows you to maintain the integrity of each business function and offer a holistic and singular view to drive informed decisions.
Align strategy and execution
Bring all types of plans together in real time. Align them – and present a unified view to facilitate better decision-making and eliminate lag time.
Unify types of planning to improve results
Connect users and processes at a core level to make it easy for everyone to participate – and improve budget accuracy and accountability.
Integrate data for true decision support
Instill confidence by using a single source of truth for all plans, across all lines of business
What are leading analysts saying about SAP?
SAP Analytics Cloud receives 31 top ratings
Find out why SAP Analytics Cloud has a recommendation rate of 86% in the world's largest survey on the selection and use of planning tools, conducted by BARC.
Analytics provides a unified view of organisational plans
Watch how companies drive real-time efficiency by aligning strategic, financial, and operational plans for one version of the truth.
A Gartner Magic Quadrant report identifies SAP as a visionary
See why Gartner positions SAP a visionary in its 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions.
Create strategic alignment across departments in your enterprise
SAP understands one size does not fit all and that is why we built planning and analytics solutions with our users specific needs in mind - to drive performance and results.
Finance
Consolidate budgets and plans from across the organisation and drive collaborative enterprise planning to ensure alignment between operational plans and financial goals.
Supply Chain
Profitability fulfill demand with real-time supply chain planning. Combine capabilities for sales and operations planning (S&OP), supply and demand planning, and inventory
Human Resources
Align workforce planning with business goals. Ensure you have the right talent at the right time, forecast risks and skill gaps – and continually optimise headcount plans.
Marketing
Create more effective marketing plans and align them to business objectives. Predict the impact of campaigns on sales revenue, optimise performance, and tightly track results.
Sales
Develop new sales plans and strategies – and track results on every channel. Set targets and use advanced data visualisation tools to view and measure results in real time.
IT
Create detailed plans and budgets for IT projects and business process improvements. Align technology, hardware, and software investments with strategic priorities.
Explore SAP collaborative enterprise planning solutions
Connect your planning processes in the cloud
Break down silos and collaborate on plans across the business with SAP Analytics Cloud. This solution offers planning, data discovery, visualisation, and predictive analytics in a single, integrated experience. Connect departments, align financial and operational plans, and get better results.
Respond quickly with real-time supply chain planning
Combine capabilities for sales and operations - demand, response, and supply planning, and inventory optimisation. SAP Integrated Business Planning is a cloud-based solution powered by in-memory computing technology within SAP HANA.
Get the latest news and trends from experts
The end of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) as we know it
Gartner officially retired the term, “corporate performance management,” (CPM) back in 2017. While it’s the end of CPM as we know it, the need for agile enterprise planning and a faster, more accurate close remains.
SAP
Planning for everyone
Collaborative Enterprise Planning unites planning across the enterprise. Learn how to use SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for supply chain planning.
Bringing FP&A into the 21st century
Annual – or even quarterly – plans and budgets don’t work in today’s fast-paced business environment. Here’s how collaborative enterprise planning can help.