CAPITAL EXPENDITURE PLANNING

MADE EASY

Presenters: Graham Finney, VP ServicesPeter Digby, PresidentJustin McNeely, Account Executive

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� Canadian consulting firm focused exclusively on SAP Enterprise Performance

Management solutions

� Implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) since

2003

� Currently support the majority of Canadian customers using BPC

� Consultants located across Canada

� Consultants have Finance background, CA, CGA, CMA, CPA

� Services include: Evaluation, Design, Implementation, Project Management,

Training, and Support

Sample of Canadian SAP BPC

Customers

Common Issues with Budgeting and

Planning

CAPEX Specific Issues

■ Aggregation of capital requests

■ CAPEX alignment with strategic plan

■ Measuring projects against benchmarks

■ Ranking, prioritizing, selecting projects

■ Project data separate/different from operational and financial data

■ Inability to analyze details

■ Excel Hell

■ Silos of information

■ Broken Links

■ Manual Security

■ Data integrity issues

■ Multiple Currencies

■ Structural changes (account, org) are painful

■ Lack of controls, approvals

■ What if analysis difficult

■ Version comparison, variance analysis difficult to do

■ Manual process – time consuming – 80/20

Introducing SAP BusinessObjects

Planning & Consolidation (BPC)

MS SQL Server

SAPNetWeaver

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

PAC Can Help You Gain Efficiency

and Transparency Now

Financial reporting and analysis

� Ad hoc query and reporting

� Automated variance analysis

� Driver analysis (industry, growth, capacity, etc.)

� Operations Analysis

Forecasting and modeling

� Demand forecasts

� Capacity/constraint models

� Cash flow models

� Rolling forecasts

� Profitability models

Business planning

� Budgeting

� Sales/revenue planning

� Capital expenditure planning

� Headcount/staffing

� Expense planning

Consolidation

� Inter-company matching/reconciliation

� Inter-company eliminations

� Currency conversion

� Management roll-ups

� Legal consolidation

CAPEX Starter Kit

Starter Kit Overview

� Designed based on best practices for

capital planning

� Prebuilt application (logic, rules,

dashboards)

� Out-of-the-box reports and schedules

Customer benefit

� Accelerated implementation

� Predefined Business Process Flows

� Easily customized

What the Industry Analysts are

saying…

� Gartner SAP is a Market Leader and has the strongest vision

� IDC SAP #1 in Performance Management Tools

� Forrester SAP has the strongest offering in the Business

Performance Solutions market

� Microsoft – SAP press release November 2009

Microsoft Corporation supports the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Planning and

Consolidation application, version for the Microsoft platform, as a preferred

solution for customers running their business applications on the Microsoft

platform.

A Better way to Budget with SAP

Demonstration

Demonstration Agenda

Capital and Project Approval

Review CAPEX details

Entering Strategic Initiatives

Establish Depreciation/Amortization

Information

Enter Project Updates

Capital and Project Requests

Flexibility of entering data

Real time calculations and results

CAPEX PROCESS

APPROVALS AND REPORTING

100% Excel

Analytical abilities with

dimensionality

Drill down and through functionality

Product Overview

CAPEX – In summary

• Alignment with strategic objectives

• Accelerated learning curve

• Financial Intelligence

• Reporting and Analytics

• Streamlined approach

• Unified:

•Interface

•Business Rules

•Processes

•Administration

•Security

•Data (Actual, Budget, Forecasts)

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