Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Plan strategies and economic goals more efficiently and reduce process errors to a minimum.

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Elevate Decision-Making Efficiency with Advanced Planning

Implement advanced planning strategies to streamline decision-making processes and ensure efficiency and accuracy within your organization. With optimized planning and forecasting processes, top-level management can make well-informed decisions efficiently and effectively. This approach prioritizes efficiency, accuracy, and growth to enable organizations to adapt to change and leverage emerging opportunities.

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With Adastra’s sales planning platform, our strategic planning is no longer a stressful annual marathon, but a sophisticated process firmly grounded in unique data and consistency checks that minimize errors and make preparation as efficient as possible.

Ondřej Horák

Project Manager, ŠKODA AUTO

I have significantly shortened my schedule and plan development using the new planning solution. I can now focus more on other issues.

Ladislav Neuhäuser

Member of the project team from the Finance Department of ČSOB

Transform Your Business Planning: Explore the Benefits

Tired of slow and error-prone planning in spreadsheets? Elevate your business planning experience with our advanced solutions. We recognize the importance of planning, budgeting, and forecasting in achieving strategic goals. Our solutions have delivered substantial improvements for clients across diverse industries, from banking to pharmaceuticals.

Transform your business planning processes today and step into a more efficient future.  Access Adastra’s services today and experience the following:

Redefined Efficiency

Experience streamlined and error-free planning, surpassing the limitations of manual work.

Data-Driven Insights

Gain valuable insights through data-driven decision-making and comprehensive ‘what if’ analyses.

Collaborative Excellence

Benefit from our close collaboration with planning software developers and a decade-long track record of success.

Seamless Growth

Our solutions are designed to evolve with your company, ensuring long-term scalability and simplified management.

Proven Results

Join our satisfied clients who have experienced a significant transformation in their planning and decision-making processes.

Seamless Integration

Easily integrate our solutions into your existing workflows for a smooth transition.

Adastra’s Approach: Planning in 4 Simple Steps

Allocate resources accurately and reduce process errors to a minimum.

1

Health Check

  • Area identification
  • Process Analysis
  • Implementation Roadmap
2

Platform Selection

  • Recommendation of the best platform
  • Selection of the licensing model
  • Infrastructure design
3

Solution Delivery

  • Expandable solution design
  • Hybrid-agile development methodology
  • Emphasis on UX and user feedback
  • Integration testing
4

Platform Operations

  • Operations and updates
  • Making the platform available to other units/departments
  • Support in cost reallocation
  • Contact with the platform vendor

Plan Systematically and Comprehensively

‘What If’ Scenarios

Gain clear insights into how individual actions and events will impact product profitability or cash flow.

Easy Allocation of Targets

Easily align your goals with products, sales, and channels across regions.

Minimum Error Rate

Automated data processing ensures the integration of company goals into key processes, reducing errors.

Faster Planning Cycles

Streamline the preparation of regular deliverables, which typically take weeks or months, through full automation.

Reporting

Access all your data clearly in one system, automatically updated for accuracy.

Enhanced Security

Prevent the uncontrolled circulation of strategic information across spreadsheets within your company.

Corporate Efficiency Redefined: Harness Precise Planning for Profitable Growth

Elevate every aspect of your enterprise with our comprehensive planning solutions. Our tools integrate seamlessly to enhance decision-making and performance across all business domains.

Financial Clarity

Navigate profit and loss (P&L), cash-flow, and budgeting with confidence.

Marketing Precision

Enhance campaign impact and product profitability.

Sales Excellence

Set and surpass targets through precise forecasting and KPIs.

Value Chain Agility

Improve logistics and stock management efficiency.

Employee Optimization

Fine-tune workforce planning and cost management.

Cost Control

Master investment strategies and operational expenses with our cost functionalities.

Elevate Your Planning and Forecasting Now

Ready to streamline your business strategy? Connect with us for a demo and start transforming your planning and forecasting today.

Finance-Driven Strategic Planning: Crafting Future-Readiness

Depicting a focused financial planning strategy, this diagram illustrates the application of budgeting and forecasting principles within finance to steer corporate planning. This approach ensures cohesive fiscal management and facilitates well-informed investment decisions.

Finance

P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash-Flow, Budgeting, Rolling Forecast, Simulations, Financial Reporting, ESG Planning and Optimization

Cost Steering

Investment Management, OPEX Plan, Cost Allocation, Project Planning, Facility Management

Employees

FTE Planning, Labor Cost Planning, Employee Training & Benefit Cost Planning

Marketing

Campaigns, Discounts, Product Profitability, Product Definitions

Sales

Segment Plans, Market Management, Sales Network KPIs, Sales Forecasts, Sales Commisions

Value Chain

Capacity Planning, Stock Management, Logistics Optimization

Optimizing Your Business Planning

Choosing the Right Planning Platform: SAP, IBM, or Jedox

Modern business planning requires tools that can connect financial, operational, and strategic data across the organization.
SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, and Jedox each provide powerful capabilities for planning, forecasting, and performance management. Adastra helps organizations evaluate these platforms and implement the solution that best fits their business needs.

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IBM Planning Analytics: Speed and Flexibility in Planning

  • An Adaptable Solution: Ideal for diverse business needs, from financial planning to CO2 emissions management.

  • Speed, Flexibility, and Automation: IBM Planning Analytics delivers rapid results with excellent ROI, expediting tasks and minimizing errors, enhancing overall business efficiency.

  • Advanced Modelling Capabilities: Designed for complex planning models and large data volumes powered by the TM1 engine.

  • Streamlined Planning: It enables efficient management of both top-down and bottom-up planning approaches.

SAP Analytics Cloud: Integrated Analytics and Planning

  • Unified Planning and Integration: Designed for organizations utilizing SAP solutions, this approach combines advanced analytics with streamlined planning to foster enterprise-wide coordination and efficiency.

  • Strong Financial Planning Capabilities: Designed for financial planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling.

  • Enhanced Process Efficiency: Harness automation to expedite organizational processes, significantly boosting overall productivity.

  • Advanced Scenario Planning: Equipped with sophisticated tools for exploring and preparing for diverse potential future scenarios, it aids in strategic foresight.

Jedox: Adaptable Planning and Performance Management

  • Excel-Like Environment: Familiar Excel interface and Excel Add-in allow business users to adopt planning tools quickly.

  • Self-Service Data Integration: No-code integration enables users to connect data from multiple systems.

  • Best Practice Accelerators: Prebuilt accelerators support financial planning, sales planning, HR planning, ESG reporting, and financial consolidation.

  • Fast Time to Value: Prebuilt planning accelerators enable faster implementation and project success.

All platforms offer:

  • Error Reduction: Guarantee more accurate business process results.

  • Resource Optimization: Optimize corporate resource utilization for improved budget management.

Elevate Your Planning and Forecasting Now

Choose the platform that aligns with your business strategy and watch your decision-making process transform.

Empower Your Business with Adastra

Leading the Way in Comprehensive Planning Optimizations and Control

Half of the implementation cost was covered within the first year through identified errors.
10+ years of experience in implementing planning solutions.
A team of 60 experts collaborating directly with technology developers.
Success Story

ČSOB Bank Streamlines Its Planning Process

ČSOB was looking to save time, have a more in-depth plan review, simplify their budgeting process and have a transparent planning platform that all their employees can use efficiently.

Thanks to the ready solution in IBM Planning Analytics and the implementation by Adastra, they have significantly improved their planning process, achieving all their goals.

More Efficient, Faster, and More Accurate Strategic Sales Planning at ŠKODA AUTO
SUCCESS STORY

Adastra’s Planning Platform Helps Škoda Auto Plan Sales More Efficiently, Quickly and Reliably

Adastra, in collaboration with Škoda Auto, has developed a comprehensive platform for preparing strategic plans that enable detailed breakdowns of individual plan items. This platform expedites the forwarding of sales—reducing the process from several weeks to a matter of days.

“With Adastra’s sales planning platform, strategic planning is no longer a stressful annual marathon for us, but a sophisticated process that is firmly based on unique data and consistency checks that minimize errors, and whose preparation is as efficient as possible.”

Ondřej Horák, Project Manager, Skoda Auto

More Efficient, Faster, and More Accurate Strategic Sales Planning at ŠKODA AUTO
SUCCESS STORY

Prediction and Planning Application Reduces CO2 Emissions for a Large European Automotive Player

We developed a robust planning application for the client that enabled hundreds of users to predict and control organizational processes. The application covers all aspects of CO2 production management and planning production volumes, deriving the number of registrations in each country, recording technical measures to reduce emissions and their impact on total emissions produced, and optimizing the plan based on the mix offered and the measures applied.

Additionally, individual importers can access the application, plan, and simulate impacts within their sales countries and regions. The planning tool is already used as a business-critical application by three major automotive companies.

SUCCESS STORY

Developing a Ten-Year Vaccine Demand Plan

Adastra provided our client with a ten-year plan to anticipate vaccine demand using the IBM Planning Analytics platform.

The resulting product not only consolidates all data for the entire world into one central repository, but also helps to unify the business process of how to plan for vaccines.

Learn how the partnership provided the client with the following benefits:

  • Integrated reporting for quick review of scheduled numbers.
  • Support for multiple probabilistic scenarios.
  • Flexibility to configure the planning model to business needs.
SUCCESS STORY

Streamlined Budgeting Process for a Traditional Czech Bank

Over 100 users —from head office economists to branch managers — are able to budget more efficiently and present budgets quicker to provide mutually aligned results. The key deliverables provided to the client were:

  • Rolling Forecast
  • Profitability Reporting
  • Results Report
  • Balance Sheet Indicators
  • Product and client statistics
SUCCESS STORY

Accelerated Budgeting Process and Automated Routine Banking Operations for a Leading Czech Bank

A leading bank in Czechia needed to streamline their planning, budgeting and forecasting process and improve transparency into these processes. After ten months of cooperative work, we delivered 12 functional modules that covered a new financial plan for the bank. The main modules and functionalities provided to the client were:

  • Market development and macro indicators.
  • Deposit and loan models.
  • Top-down plan preparation according to objectives.
  • Planning of internal rates and risk indicators.
  • Cost planning including CC level collection.

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FAQ

Adastra’s approach prioritizes streamlined planning, surpassing Excel’s limitations. We integrate advanced strategies for efficiency, accuracy, and growth, offering seamless integration and data-driven insights for informed decision-making.

Adastra’s planning solutions deliver rapid results with excellent ROI, minimizing errors and streamlining planning cycles. Automation ensures accurate business process results and efficient resource allocation.

Adastra’s solutions evolve with businesses, ensuring scalability and simplified management. With seamless integration and a decade-long track record of success, businesses can confidently achieve strategic goals and drive sustainable growth….

Elevate Your Planning and Forecasting Now

Let´s meet and start to plan strategies and economic goals more efficiently.