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Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Management

NMP Data Systems offers EPM consulting and advisory services using a selection of Information Technology (IT) platforms to develop the system for our customers. Our approach to service delivery starts with understanding the customer’s enterprise, industry, and its planning strategy. We bring in a thorough engineering approach to the implementation phase guided by best practices. We have extensive experience in agile implementations, often incorporating our own process innovations. Our methodology delivers quick proof of concepts, business-centric design in collaboration with business stakeholders and users, rapid implementations and closely assisted roll outs.

Consulting and Advisory

Our team members have in-depth domain expertise and EPM implementation experience in multiple industries and various technology platforms delivering true and enduring value to our customers.

The core areas where we have subject matter expertise are:

Sales and Operations Planning

Supply Chain Planning

Financial Planning and Analysis

Financial Consolidation and Reporting

Technology Recommendation

Model Performance Tuning

The core areas where we have subject matter expertise are:

Chemicals

Retail

Hospitality

Food and Beverages

Agriculture

Insurance

Banking

Pharmaceuticals

Manufacturing

Conglomerates

Solution Implementation

NMP Data Systems is a trusted technology partner for EPM solution implementations. We have experience in full life cycle implementations of EPM modules for global clients across various industries and functions. We have best-in-class Finance, Sales & Operations resources with collective experience of more than 300 years distributed geographically to handle global implementations.

NMP Data Systems brings in value to EPM implementations through:

Subject Matter Experts in Sales & Operations Planning and Financial Planning

Certified model developers trained in best practices

Data Integration Team for upgrades and migrations

User Training and Support

Agile project management practices, both standard and proprietary, to provide quick time-to-value and visibility of progress.

Expertise in Data Integration:

Data availability forms the foundation of successful Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) implementations. EPM requires data to flow in from multiple source systems, like ERP, CRM, HRMS, Salesforce, etc so that plans can be consolidated, reviewed and decisions can be made.

NMP Data Systems’ Data Integration team can deliver enterprise-grade data integration for EPM solutions with various data sources and devices using multiple integration patterns.

The key aspects where NMP Data Systems can add value to this area are:

Data Hub Design

Data Load Automation

Data Migration support

Source Data Quality Testing

Data Connector and Data Flow set up

Maintenance and Support

NMP Data Systems provides flexible packages for post implementation support of integrated planning solutions.

The maintenance involves:

Post Go-live care

Feature enhancements, making changes to the present model as per the changing business requirements

Addition of new templates and reports

Addition of data integration scripts

Annual business cycle support

Maintenance

Training

Change brings exciting but challenging opportunities, and the success of large-scale transformation programs depends on how well the organization embraces the change. NMP Data Systems supports organizations in change management during EPM initiation by directly involving the customer in the design phase, EPM implementation using the train-the-trainer concept and EPM roll-out by providing user training and post go-live support. The objective of this process is to transfer the knowledge to the client’s application owners giving them full control of their solution.

The training involves:

Training Content Development

Readiness Assessments

Super User Training

Business User Training

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support

Clear and Concise Documentation

Coverage Review

Care Training after UAT

Domain Expertise

Our Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions offer descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive insights to organizations in their strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making processes. This is an integrated financial and operational planning solution. It is based on collaboration between Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Operations, Supply Chain, and other functions in an organization. It provides controlled and role-based access to a single source of truth and enables organizations to drive data-driven and agile business decisions.

Sales and Marketing

Driving top line growth is a key performance metric for Sales. However, driving volume sales is not sufficient, especially in a globally competitive market. Solutions are necessary for driving inter-enterprise collaboration, improving forecasts, developing solid customer group strategies, and timing product introductions correctly.

Common Challenges in Sales & Marketing:

Are our Sales Targets realistic?

Which families are doing well, and which are not?

Which territories need greater attention?

What is the right time for the product launch?

Where do I need to run promotions to improve sales and when to plan for them?

Is demand shifting between product families because of consumer behavior?

Do we have visibility of trend and bias in our forecasts and plans?

NMP Data Systems offers you these solutions:

AI Powered Sales Forecast at Multiple Hierarchy Intersections within Product, Geography and Customer at Multiple Vertical Levels

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Sales Forecast Collaboration

Units & Revenue Plans

New Product Introduction and End of Life Planning

Channel and Promotions Planning

Product and Customer Segmentation Analysis

Trade Promotions

Incentive Compensation

Pricing Strategy

Quota Management

Profitability Analytics

Sales Performance Dashboard

Supply Chain

Supply Chain performance management is critical to delivering business goals in organizing and managing procurement functions optimally. In many instances, businesses make little effort to organize their suppliers or implement coherent supply chain strategies. This increases the total supply chain cost significantly through increased overhead, high inventory levels, extra logistic costs, quality management costs and lost sales. Digitalization has a major role to play in keeping the supply chains agile and resilient.

Common Challenges in Siloed Supply Chain Planning Environments:

Why are my inventory levels consistently high/low for certain products?

Are my safety stock levels correct?

Where can unexpected shortages occur because of supply disruption?

Where can inventory levels be adjusted in our network?

Do we have visibility of alternate sources of finished goods?

What is the most cost-effective way for sourcing?

Can we predict long-term and short-term capacity requirements accurately?

Can we remodel existing capacity to meet shifting demands?

Can we model alternative production scenarios easily, compare them and make informed decisions?

Which vendors are still in business, which are not performing? Where is supplier diversification needed because of material shortages?

NMP Data Systems offers you these solutions:

Network Optimization

Demand Planning

Distribution Planning

Production Planning

Inventory Management

Supplier Performance

Procurement Planning

Demand Supply Balancing

Finance

Strategy and Execution alignment is a goal for Corporate Performance Management. A good strategic plan is built on reliable financial & operational business data and neatly presented business intelligence for decision-making. Unfortunately, for many, the importance of financial planning and budgeting in business is not clear. It is seen as something the company has to do each year but not as an integral part of business operations. The most tangible benefit of financial planning and budgeting is to set clear and realistic goals that will make it easier for everyone to make better decisions. Business owners and key executives face hard choices every day, and even a single poor decision can have disastrous consequences for the success of the entire company.

Common Challenges in Financial Planning:

Why do I have poor visibility across the planning cycle?

Why does everyone work in isolation?

Why do I receive inconsistent, error-prone results with no audit trail?

Why is my financial planning process so complex and maintenance-intensive?

How can I improve cross-functional collaboration, agility, and decision-making?

How can I have end-to-end financial performance visibility?

How can I improve the profit of my organization?

How can I reduce working capital investment?

Why is it so laborious and time consuming to consolidate my financial data manually?

How can I help my organization to manage the digital transformation?

NMP Data Systems offers you these solutions:

Integrated Budgeting & Forecasting and Bidirectional Alignment with Operations Plan

Revenue Planning

Support to Promotions and Marketing Expense Budgets

Simulate Impact of Demand and Supply Variations on Financial Plan

Budget Versus Actual Variance Reporting

Support to Long-Term Capacity Requirements Planning

Expense Allocation

Capital Expenditure

Consolidation

Workforce Planning

Sustainability

Sales and Operations Planning

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is an integrated process involving many business functions using a single source of truth for decision-making to achieve a single consensus plan. S&OP aligns sales planning with operations and finance to achieve greater agility and accuracy in planning. This formal planning process is complex and varies from industry to industry, company to company.

Common Challenges in S&OP:

How can the planners across the business work effortlessly with multiple sources of data, received from individual spreadsheets?

Why do we have multiple plans that different departments are marching to?

Why are we constantly missing our sales numbers?

Why are we incurring such high expedite costs?

Why do we have too much of the wrong inventory?

Why are we constantly changing our production plan at the last minute?

How can we forecast accurately in our annual or quarterly planning cycle in volatile market conditions?

Why is it impossible for us to quickly identify the continuous changes and growing risks in supply chain?

Why is it so laborious to review cross functional impact of change in business decisions?

NMP Data Systems offers you these solutions:

Supply-Demand Plan Collaboration

Inventory & Distribution Planning

Sourcing Scenarios Based on Cost and Lead Times

Rough-Cut Capacity Plan Review

Production Scenarios

Dependent Demand Planning

Finished Good Plan Review

Supplier Coverage Review

Consensus Scenario Planning

Plan of Record, Audit Trails

Plan Versus Performance Review

Exceptions Review