Corporate Performance Management

BPO Systems provides consulting, implementation and support services for Oracle’s comprehensive suite of E-Business Corporate Performance Management (CPM) applications.  These applications enable organizations to create greater business insight and achieve world-class performance by aligning the right information and resources to strategic objectives. Oracle's CPM products deliver business intelligence, planning and budgeting, consolidation, profitability management, and analysis and reporting capabilities across your enterprise. Oracle Corporate Performance Management helps managers formulate strategies for profitable growth, align strategies with operational plans, actively monitor day-to-day operations, and collaborate across the enterprise. A unified data model provides a (dynamic vs. static) single, accurate view of enterprise- wide information by working with the Oracle Data Base, promoting transparency, actionable analysis, and rapid execution, without having to perform an ETL (Extraction Transformation and Load) process. And when Oracle Corporate Performance Management runs on Oracle technology, you speed implementation, optimize performance, streamline support — and maximize ROI.

Align Operations with Corporate Strategy

Corporate strategy begins with understanding all aspects of your business. Once you create your strategic plans, you want to ensure successful execution by defining the goals and metrics up-front, aligning the resources to meet the objectives, and clearly communicating throughout the process what is needed to achieve success.  In addition, if changes are made to the plan, those changes need to be communicated throughout the organization, so that those responsible for influencing the business on a daily basis can adjust their plans.

Oracle’s integrated solution lets you define metrics that reflect your strategy, and set target values for these shared metrics. Scorecards expose the status of key business drivers by establishing the cause-effect relationships between metrics. Tolerance levels can be set for each metric to enable automatic notification of deviations. Oracle’s planning and budgeting capabilities let you formulate top down and bottom up operating plans and budgets, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.  Oracle delivers well-defined business processes to assist in this effort, and those processes include business rules, roles and schedules, all of which allow you to make more timely decisions and increase the accountability behind them.  Ad-hoc analysis and monitoring capabilities are integrated with planning and budgeting, allowing managers to understand how well the business and its performance matches the plan.  As a result, managers can adjust plans and budgets as needed.  This continuous link between strategy, plans, and performance is critical in achieving the overall objectives.

Actively Manage Risk

In today’s regulatory environment, no organization can afford surprises. Actively managing risk means having a strong handle over day-to-day operations at all times.  Oracle Corporate Performance Management allows managers to monitor performance through personalized dashboards and alerts.  The solution delivers timely, relevant information that allows business leaders to evaluate risk and make adjustments to account for risk. Custom, graphical scorecards display performance results and let users click on any indicator to perform more detailed analysis.  Role-specific managerial reports incorporate charts, graphs, and key performance indicators (KPIs) with the flexibility to view them across various time periods.  Because Oracle’s CPM solution is integrated with your transaction systems, users can navigate directly to any related function of the system to take corrective action as necessary and prevent period-end surprises.  In addition, Oracle provides auditability of the information you report through a unified view into financial results, business performance, and underlying internal controls.

Collaborate Across the Enterprise

Information-rich collaboration speeds decision making while improving the quality of those decisions. No matter how good the process, decisions will never be as good as they can be if decision makers do not have a consistent and common base of information. Without it, there is no way to ensure forecasts, plans, and budgets all tie together. Leveraging Oracle’s single, complete data model with just one definition of customers, suppliers, products, people, etc. enables sharing of consistent, accurate information across all business functions so good decisions can be made and understood. Even in fragmented, heterogeneous environments, Oracle can aggregate data securely from multiple systems for use within the business, as well as beyond.

Oracle Corporate Performance Management

Oracle Corporate Performance Management delivers key functionality across all vertical segments, including the public sector. Your business priorities drive which products you implement. Begin anywhere and expand as you achieve success, or extend third party products that you already have in place.

KEY FEATURES

BALANCED SCORECARD

• Monitor Achievement -- Compare performance against industry peers, internal plans or budgets, historical data, and more. Analyze performance by business unit, product, geography, sales channel, and more.

• Enable Strategic Feedback -- Enable employees to collaborate on root cause analysis and corrective action plans. Capture feedback automatically in a knowledge repository to support organizational learning

• Integrate with Oracle Daily Business Intelligence – Draw on hundreds of pre-built KPIs on custom dashboards and drill-down reports. Speed implementation and reporting with KPIs that are already mapped to E-Business Suite tables

ENTERPRISE PLANNING & BUDGETING

• Control the Planning Process Define repeatable and transparent processes to collect, review and approve budgets and forecasts. Share business driver and model definitions across the enterprise

• Deliver Timely Information to the Right People – Leverage business logic built into the application to manage the flow of information. Deliver analysis via enterprise portal or email, assemble briefing books, or export to a set of spreadsheets

• Tune Plans to Improve Results -- Accelerate revised data entry by automatically preparing and distributing worksheets. Investigate alternative what-if scenarios using dynamic business calculations

PROFITABILITY MANAGER

• Multi-dimensional Model -- allows analysis and reporting of profitability along any dimension including products, channels, segments, and even individual customers

• Open to Any Methodology For Any Industry --  including sophisticated Activity-Based costing methods

• Calculate Customer Profitability -- adjusted for risk, and prioritize customers by value

FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION HUB

• Strengthen Confidence in Financial Results and Controls -- Tight integration between financial reporting and compliance certification processes helps you meet accelerated reporting deadlines and expanded disclosure requirements.

• Quickly Adapt to Changing Business Conditions – An open architecture that rationalizes data from disparate systems into a single, actionable source of truth will allow you to adapt to changing business requirements.

• Provide a Basis for Enterprise-Wide Performance Management -- A unified analytic platform provides a foundation for evaluating business strategies, and aligning strategies with operational plans

DAILY BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

• Implements in Days Or Weeks -- to provide the fastest path to information from the Oracle E-Business Suite

• Drill Directly from Summary Information to Transaction Data – without impact to the transactional systems or end user training

• Customizable and Extensible – to Oracle and non-Oracle data sources

• 50+ Dashboards, 300+ KPIs, 800+ reports delivered out of  the box, leveraging EBS security, hierarchies, and setups.

KEY BENEFITS

• Formulate strategies for profitable growth

• Align strategies with operational plans

• Actively monitor day-to-day operations

• Collaborate across the enterprise

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