BPM Office utilizes the IBM Cognos TM1 in-memory engine in conjunction with the TM1 toolset to create an enterprise-wide performance management solution. The BPM Office framework models finance, sales, inventory, production, material requirements, product cost, and distribution planning and reporting in a closed loop solution.
The Trade Spending module within the BPM Office allows companies to analyze, manage, and report customer and product funding dollars against budgets and forecasts to drive performance.
- Control discretionary trade spending dollars by assigning specific customer and product funding rates to ensure promotional funds are utilized as planned.
- Customer and Product P&Ls from Gross Sales to EBITDA.
- Create multi-level allocations for actual, budget, and forecasted trade spending based on flexible allocation methodologies.
- Track and manage approved trade funding against actual spending.
- Create account plans by customer, distributor, territory, and retail store level.
- Budget and forecast by customer, territory, product, category and brand.
- Track detailed and consolidated sales data across all dimension hierarchies in real time.
- Perform complex accrual calculations.
- Self service web-based analytics.
- Guided budgeting and forecasting.
- What-if capabilities in real time.
- Capability to drill through customer data into order entry and billing transactions.
- Driver-based planning to predict future business performance.
BPM Office leverages IBM Cognos TM1 products, including TM1 Server, TM1 Perspectives, TM1 Web, Workflow, and Executive Viewer. The framework utilizes the TM1 Turbo Integrator ETL tool to integrate disparate data sources into the system models. Web-based reporting and analysis is provided via Executive Viewer and TM1 Web.