Sales planning with a flexible business modeller
Work with a flexible, easy-to-update, multi-dimensional business modeller serving different models at the same time for the same forecast area using KPIs and other Drivers, or Premises.
Create your Business Model with Abylon Rapid Planner
With Abylon Rapid Planner your FP&A team gets a flexible, easy-to-use tool plus a suitable method to create and modify the forecast quickly and effectively. The platform lets you manage and monitor data and displays multi-dimensional insights for management for a more data-driven decision making.
Our forecast template gives flexibility in the planning, where the controllers can work with their own business model,
- using company Standard Premises, KPI and FX Rates,
- creating Non-Standard Premises for calculation and saving them in the database for further analysis,
- working with different Document Currencies,
- consolidating results in Group or Constant Currency,
- using all well known MS Excel function in the model,
- generating the forecasted Revenue and related cost in the desired detail (using accounting or reporting dimensions),
If business complicated enough, it is possible to create and work with several different models at the same time for the same forecast area (profit center, segment, country, etc.).
Independent module or complete P&L solution
Business Modeler is part of the Rapid General P&L Planner, the forecasted sales revenue and costs in this module are integrated into the entire P&L Forecast of the company, but it can also be used as an independent module.
Part of a complete P&L solution
The Business Modeller is part of our P&L Planner solution. The forecasted sales revenue and costs in this module are integrated into the entire P&L Forecast of the company. However it can also be used as an independent module.
Main Benefits of our Business Modeller
SALES AND REVENUE PROJECTIONS
COGS & OTHER DIRECT COSTS PROJECTIONS
EXCEL UI AND TEMPLATES FOR EASE-OF-USE
KPIS AND PREMISES
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATION INTO P&L FORECAST MODEL
VARIANCE ANALYSIS AND MODELLING
ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL
Forecasting Revenue and related expenses with KPIs and other Drivers, Assumptions (Premises)
We use a premise or driver based predictive approach that relies on established assumptions, company historical data, expert knowledge, and logical context. This method allows you to model the revenue and related expenses based on key factors most impactful to the business such as business KPIs, FX Rates, other drivers and assumptions.
- Define any factors that effect sales volume or pricing or add other multiplicators to your forecast.
- Determine the appropriate forecasting depth of segmentation or dimensionality.
- Assign value to all assumptions.
- Define the logical context between these drivers and calculate forecasted revenue and cost.
- Create Summary Reports in excel to review and track forecast result evolution with real time data,
- Provide multi-dimensional insights for decision making.
- Compare the assumptions to the actuals and quantify the A2F or F2F variances on professional way.
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Variance Analysis
Based on the size and complexity of the business all required premises can be built up easily. System stores the forecasted values of used premises and make them also available for version (A2F, A2B, F2F) or period (YoY, QoQ, MoM) comparision. This way volume, price or FX effect calculation can be standardized and automatized very easily.
FP&A with Abylon Rapid Planner
Abylon Rapid Planner is an Excel-based FP&A solution, that utilizes database integrations, built-in automations, centralized master data management and ready-to-use templates to modernize and simplify corporate business planning, forecasting and what-if scenario creation.
Communicate with your data warehouses, write-back data, simplify business planning, forecasting and what-if-scenario creation!
Interested? Let's start a conversation and see how we can help you!
