Zap Planning
Overview
Centralise your budgeting and planning
Zap Planning is a software application for budgeting, forecasting and planning. It is a unified, single application for the whole performance process – tightly linking forecasting with data and processes for planning, budgeting and scorecarding. Integrated with Zap Business Intelligence, it provides the benefits of one management system, one architecture, real-time capabilities and a lower total cost of ownership.
Benefits to your business
- Shorten the planning cycle: Zap Planning reduces the time and complexity needed to complete organisational planning and budgeting.
- Increase budgeting accuracy: A centralised system reduces the occurrence of errors and multiple versions of data that are common with standalone spreadsheets.
- Enable collaboration: Your employees can collaborate on the budgeting and planning process by using a centralised system.
- Enhance decision-making: Adapt to changing market conditions by using business modelling to assess “what-if” scenarios.
- Improve flexibility: Forecasting enables you to model and adjust to changes such as increased sales volume.
Key functionality
- Multidimensional planning, slice-and-dice and drill-down.
- Complete process management including workflow, versioning and status control.
- Collaborative top-down and bottom-up process to ensure corporate alignment and stakeholder agreement.
- “What-if?” analysis and scenario planning for any situation including realistic, optimistic, and pessimistic projections.
- Unlimited versioning with zero-impact to actual source data.
- Rolling forecasts based on any time period you choose. Inclusion of current actuals for optimal reforecasting.
- Break-back to easily spread targets from the top down across multiple factors such as territories or products.
- Real-time views of your data for complete visibility.
- Run a consolidated P&L report at any time.
- Customisable budget layouts, formats and Excel®-based input forms.
Why choose Zap Planning?
- Easy to customise. Zap Planning allows you to easily reflect the business rules, workflows and structures particular to your business.
- User friendly. Zap Planning is designed to enable the business user to create planning and budgeting input sheets and reports easily, without requiring specialist IT skills or programming knowledge.
- An affordable investment. Zap Planning leverages Microsoft® technology, which reduces the complexity, cost of ownership and training requirements for the solution.
- Scalable. Whether you’re a small business with a simple deployment or you have a complex, multi-entity business model, Zap is scalable to meet your business planning needs.
- Secure. Administrative tools ensure that users only see appropriate data – at all levels of the system.
- Integrated with Zap Business Intelligence. Zap Planning is fully integrated with Zap Business Intelligence, for customers wanting an end-to-end performance management solution. This allows you to drive your business using a unified system, reducing the total cost of ownership.