Events for October 2020

Manufacturing is an industry with many moving parts: human resources, raw materials, capital investments, and logistics, not to mention ever-changing customer demands. In this time of historic change and volatility, there has never been a greater premium placed on Finance and FP&A teams to quickly provide insights to their organization and business partners. With a need to blend and link similar data to gain decisive results in seconds, using what you learn to improve process efficiency, centralize production monitoring, better serve your customers, and turn real-time data into just-in-time insights.

The IBM Planning Analytics (powered by TM1) tool is commonly used for planning, forecasting and financial reporting. Wouldn’t you like to know how to leverage your IBM Planning Analytics data to get even more insights into your business? Join our eCapital team for session 3 of our Lunch and Learn series as they show use cases and lessons learned with IBM Planning Analytics.

We are living through one of the most disruptive years ever for businesses around the globe. From a total shutdown to a very slow reopening of business most companies have struggled to keep things afloat. Not only was the 2020 budget completely useless by March, having a 2020 forecast that was meaningful was nearly impossible. Where does that leave you for budgeting 2021?

Over the years, we have visited many cities in the Midwest U.S., spent time connecting over a meal and learning from each other. While we can’t be physically together in the current environment, we want to come back collectively as a region and continue the discussions related to: budget and planning efficiency, influence of technology on process improvement, increased analytics needs across the business, and the ever changing role of FP&A.