What does an Activity-based Integrated Planning and Budgeting System Do?
An integrated planning and budgeting solution supports five themes major. The solution: • Enables one to easily capture the goals of and the consequent demand on an organization. The goals may be meeting sales and customer forecasts, managing an installed base or evolving customer relationships. These goals and the demands they make on the organization are the world outside. • Lets one easily capture the work processes, activities and costs of the business processes that are used to meet the demand on the organization. These may be sales calls, closing new customers, turning on new services, providing products, and supporting customer queries. • Identifies the human, IT, facilities and other resources and costs incurred to meet an organizations goals. This resource/cost mapping is then linked to the work being accomplished for a thorough work analysis and activity-based costing of work activities. • The above information then automatically projects budgets and resource forecasts, and a
