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Financial Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting

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Epicor Active Planner is a strategic planning solution with the flexibility to allow you to react quickly to change in today’s dynamic business environment. A key component of the Epicor Business Intelligence Suite, it encourages enterprise-wide collaboration, connects to and incorporates multiple information sources, and utilizes advanced modeling and data visualization tools.  It links bottom-up and top-down planning activities to organizational performance.

 

Key to continuous enterprise performance management (EPM) initiatives, Active Planner promotes ownership, goal setting, incentives, planning, and accountability.

BENEFITS

 

·     Improves collaboration on budget creation and version management.

 

·     Accelerates the iterative process of collecting and aggregating distributed budgets.

 

·     Eliminates error-prone spreadsheets and manual rollups.

 

·     Ensures consistent formulas and data sources.

 

·     Incorporates financial and non-financial data.

 

·     Simplifies the work of producing rolling forecasts.

 

·     Allows for what-if scenarios.

 

·     Provides secured access to participants from their desktop and over the Web.

 

Active Planner includes pre-packaged integration for

Epicor Enterprise, Epicor Vantage, and Epicor iScala solutions.

Integrated Budget Plan Sheets

Active Planner has the familiar look of spreadsheets for ease of use, but also offers powerful budgeting functionality.  Its web based Plan Sheets also allow remote and distributed input via a Browser.

 

Flexible Calculations and Seamless Data Integration

Active Planner provides a powerful formula engine to quickly construct virtually any budget calculation with unlimited formula lines, which can link to account and range balances, fixed amounts, external database queries or other plan sheet values, providing unparalleled power and flexibility.

 

Powerful Variance and Forecasting Capabilities

With Active Planner, real-time budget variance analysis can be done with the click of a mouse, and calculations based on anticipated unit sales can be updated anytime to display current sales and price/unit variances for more informed decision-making.

 

Distributed Budget Management

Active Planner’s Plan Sheet control allows you to roll up or consolidate budget information, or push down strategic targets and common global values. For easy administration, you can perform operations on all or sections of the plan, such as locking, changing status or adding a new revision.

 

Pro-Forma Financial Statements and Analysis

Active Planner provides analysis and report preparation and creates pro-forma financial statements that retrieve the actual results from your Epicor General Ledger for closed periods and combine with the remaining plan for a rolling forecast.

 

Insightful Analysis

Active Planner comes complete with multidimensional visualization tools that leverage Microsoft® SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to provide sophisticated information through online analytical processing (OLAP).