Profitability & Cost Management (PCM)

Transform Traditional Income Statements into Decision Operational P&Ls

A vast majority of companies today don’t have solutions in place to do deep root profitability analysis. Companies make important strategic decisions from traditional income statements that lack key operational drivers. These statements are generated by accounting systems that were designed to meet the minimum financial requirements mandated by statutory agencies. As a result, key profit and loss transactions are aggregated into financial dimensions (ie. cost elements, cost centers, departments, companies, etc.) instead of operational dimensions. (customers, products, channels, vendors, segments, etc.)

Column5 uses SAP BusinessObjects Profitability & Cost Management (PCM) to help clients generate operational P&Ls and bridge the decision gap needed by executives to make critical profit and loss decisions.

Link Operational Drivers to Profitability for Resource Management

Understanding the operational drivers of costs is critical to managing profitability. Organizations that lack the ability to identify and assess these drivers struggle to make well-founded decisions about resource allocation. Column5 assists organizations to identify the customer, product, and business-sustaining activities that comprise profitability-supporting operations and link these operational drivers to the financial resources allocated to support them.

Maximize Profitability and Control Costs with a Business User Solution

Column5 leverages SAP BusinessObjects Profitability & Cost Management (PCM) to help organizations minimize costs that contribute the least to profitability and focus more on the activity drivers that maximize success. Jointly, Column5’s experienced resources and the comprehensive capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Profitability & Cost Management will enable your organization to:

• Quickly identify and understand operational issues that impact the bottom line;
• Test allocation changes to assess their impact on profitability before rolling them out;
• Complete customer value analyses to determine how customer-related activities and investments impact profit;
• Evaluate shared services costing, such as IT services, to gain insight on how these costs can be minimized;
• Make informed decisions and take the guess-work out of resource allocation; and
• Gain rapid ROI from solution investment with an application that is utilized and owned by business users, not IT.

Get the Most From Your Investment with a Trusted SAP Partner

Column5 offers end-to-end solution and management consulting capabilities for SAP BusinessObjects Profitability & Cost Management (PCM) and other SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management solutions. An SAP Partner with deep product knowledge and longstanding relationships with key SAP resources, Column5 helps organizations quickly integrate business-supportive solutions into existing technical infrastructures and processes, thereby reducing the time your key resources spend away from the activities that drive success.

Online Demos

Profitability and Cost Management (PCM) - 3D Profitability. This demo focuses on SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management (PCM). We will explain the advantages of having processes and technology in place to help companies uncover hidden costs and profit opportunities.