Financial Planning: Reconciling Goals across your Enterprise

With Manhattan Associates' Financial Planning solution, you plan the way you want—top-down or bottom-up—across multiple categories, selling channels, events and time periods. With multiple versioning and user-driven, dynamic planning processes, you can quickly refine your plans and forecasts and see the impact of demand shifts or other variable changes.

Manhattan Associates' Financial Planning helps you plan the organization's financial goals and the category mix you will need to reach them. With this powerful planning engine, you can quickly develop top-down plans that drive down to the lower levels of your organization, and reconcile with bottom-up category and class level plans.

Top-Down or Bottom-Up?

The best practice? Use the approach that best fits your business and your people. Manhattan's Planning solution provides best practice templates to support the planning process for retail, catalog and web channels that can also be configured because each business is unique. We provide unparalleled flexibility for creating, seeding, grouping and reconciling plans so you don't have to reengineer the system if your business process changes.

Working with Manhattan's Planning is intuitive and dynamic. Planners can quickly develop "what-if" planning scenarios for retail, unit and cost-based measures to try alternative strategies and make the best decisions for the business, as well as save to other versions within the same plan.

Planning is designed for multi-channel organizations. It is easy to use for all types of planners — "Power planners" have all the flexibility they need to change views and re-orient their worksheets as needed while corporate views help new hires move step-by-step through the process.

Using Manhattan's Planning solution delivers these key benefits:

• Gain enterprise-wide visibility to product information. You can plan and forecast sales and inventory requirements across multiple levels of the category hierarchy, all the way down to the item level.
• Maximize productivity. The solutions are easy to use with fast response times. Your planners will be able to concentrate on planning and analysis instead of data gathering, data entry and data validation.
• Get rapid results. The solutions can group, seed and reconcile plans dynamically for maximum, unconstrained planning flexibility.
• Increase sales and margins. Now you have the means to react quickly to changing customer needs and ensure you have the right product, at the right price, in the right channels at the right time.

Contact Information: To learn more about Manhattan Associates' supply chain solutions, simply complete the information request form, and we will contact you. For North & South America, call +1 877.596.9208 or e-mail info_americas@manh.com. For global inquiries, call +44 (0)1344 318000 or e-mail info_global@manh.com.