Financial Throughput & Operations Planning
Connecting financial and operational planning
Most manufacturers plan their operations and their finances in separate cycles, which means operational decisions are made without a clear line of sight to their financial impact. The Financial Throughput & Operations Planning solution, developed by sedApta Suite in partnership with Real Throughput, bridges that gap: giving management teams a single framework that connects Throughput, Investment, and Operating Expense metrics to operational planning scenarios.
With this in mind, the Financial Throughput & Operations Planning solution has emerged providing the tool that was missing to effectively integrate financial and operational planning and support management in making operational, tactical and strategic decisions.
Aligning operational decisions with financial targets
The ability to evaluate operational plans through a financial lens, seeing the Throughput, Investment, and Operating Expense implications of each scenario before committing. That is what separates reactive planning from strategic decision-making. sedApta's Financial Throughput & Operations Planning solution provides that capability, connecting operational constraints with financial outcomes in real time. In order to do so, sedApta and the Real Throughput development team set out to improve the quality, effectiveness and timeliness of the information produced, providing a new approach to measuring impact on business objectives.
sedApta and Real Throughput bring the focus back to the strategic role of the management
The sedApta technology and the Real Throughput know-how converge in a solution that, removes the significant limitations posed by traditional cost accounting systems when employed in decision-making and what-if scenario analysis processes.
Specifically, thanks to sedApta’s Control Tower and Real Throughput Economics metrics, the management is focused on specific targets: namely, adherence to critical-to-business metrics measured by Throughput, Investment and Operating Expenses metrics and critical-to-market metrics measured through Supply Chain operational KPIs. All made fast and effective, making complex cost allocation mechanisms typical of cost accounting unnecessary.
What-if scenario analysis
Thanks to the support of a powerful constraint-focused finite capacity engine and with the sedApta Control Tower, the user will be able to create different simulative scenarios in a simple way: starting from an initial scenario, one can modify the main variables of the system (volumes, mix, prices, capacity, etc.) and analyze their effects in real time through financial metrics of Throughput, Investment and Operating Expenses. These are accompanied by other metrics that allow a complete analysis in all aspects related to the specific interests, comparing the different scenarios to make the most advantageous decisions.
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