Kinaxis recently held its annual user conference, Kinexions, which focuses on helping the company’s customers improve their execution of supply chain and sales and operations planning (S&OP). This year’s event took place against a backdrop of what is beginning to look like a new and more challenging era of world trade. This will have a significant impact on most product companies with international operations. (I also reviewed last year’s event, which can be found here.)
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Topics: Financial Performance Management, Operations & Supply Chain, Continuous Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, Inventory Optimization, Sales and Operations Planning
This year’s Workday Rising, the company’s annual user group meeting, offered details of the company’s latest release, Workday 31, and provided a roadmap for the next several semiannual releases. To put these plans into a broader context, I’ve commented before that information technology is on the verge of delivering capabilities that will enable finance and accounting organizations to transform how they work. Technology will have a more profound impact on accounting and finance over the coming decade than it has over the past 50 years. Workday Financial Management, along with the company’s Prism Analytics and recently acquired Adaptive Insights, is evolving to provide to finance and accounting departments the technology underpinnings that can help them redefine how they do their work.
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Topics: Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Recurring Revenue, Price and Revenue Management, revenue recognition
A recent analysis of our sales and operations planning (S&OP) dynamic insight research provides perspective on the current state of this core business process. Using concise web-based surveys, Ventana Research’s Dynamic Insights provide research participants with an immediate assessment of their company’s efforts as well as research- and experience-based advice on potential next steps to improve. For those who wish to do a quick assessment of their own company’s sales and operations planning, the Dynamic Insight can be found here.
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Topics: Operations & Supply Chain, Continuous Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, Inventory Optimization, Product Information Management, Sales and Operations Planning, Work and Resource Management, Sales Planning and Analytics
Financial analysts typically classify real estate as a fixed cost. Strictly speaking, that’s correct, but looking at it this way leads many organizations to overlook opportunities to more carefully manage their real estate and other occupancy expenses. The changes in lease accounting that are going into effect have caused some organizations to reexamine their leasing policies and how they organize their lease accounting processes. They should take an even broader approach and consider ways to improve how they manage those leases.
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Topics: Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Operations & Supply Chain, Lease Accounting, Accounting, IFRS16, ASC842
PROS Holdings is a software vendor with two distinct but related sets of products. The company began in 1985 offering revenue management software to airlines, hospitality and rental car companies. More recently it added price and revenue management software focusing on B2B services, chemicals and energy, consumer goods manufacturers, food and beverage, healthcare, insurance and technology. This note focuses on the B2B portion of the business.
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Topics: Analytics, Big Data, Data Preparation, Customer Experience, Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Pricing and Promotion Management, Office of Finance, Financial Performance Management, Price and Revenue Management, Sales, Sales Enablement and Execution, Sales Performance Management
