Planning

Definition: an act of formulating a program for a
definite course of action.

You might have heard of the expression:
"the planning was more fun than the trip itself“.

While sometimes true when planning a vacation, companies find planning to be an arduous undertaking that expends precious resources, and is limited by the technology employed to get it accomplished (mainly excel).

Acuity delivers fully-integrated, enterprise wide,
world class planning applications.
 

Planning is one of the key aspects to any corporate performance management initiative. All corporations start by developing a plan, monitoring that plan against actual performance, and creating a “book” of reports across the business processes that give actual to plan reports to the business consumers

Planning integrates plans and budgets across departments, divisions, and locations. It translates corporate objectives into concrete financial and tactical plans.

World Class Planning applications:

• Are not simply top-down, but depend on information flowing from the bottom-up.

• Engage the entire business (sometimes thousands of constituents).

• Dramatically speed up the planning process, modeling in days rather than months

• Give you the ability to test scenarios and reduce risk.

• Turn annual budgets into rolling forecasts that give more accurate visibility into future operating performance.

• Gain better visibility into your business plans and the budgets that drive them.

• Drive accountability throughout the business