Enabling Business Performance

Rich functionality for wherever your business takes you

Infor FPM helps your organization plan, monitor, and improve financial performance. It gives you quick answers about business performance from a single solution, so you can manage your organization's budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, and strategic planning processes, and report and analyze results at all levels of your organization. You get a single source of the truth so you can make the best business decisions possible.

Infor FPM drives improvements in the following financial areas:

Strategy management

Achieve your organization's strategic goals from within a single environment that can build a strategic plan, establish targets for successful completion, and monitor the plan against actual performance. You get an intuitive framework for linking your strategic plans to operational plans, performance measures, and people.

The core features of Strategy management are as follows:

• Compare actual results against planned results.
• Identify trends.
• Build color-coded reports to track your strategic plan progress to help minimize implementation time.
• Track costs and revenue by initiative.
• View performance of individuals assigned to tactics.
• Assess the impact one plan element is having on other elements.

Budgeting and planning

Integrate and streamline planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to save time, improve accuracy and incorporate specialized plans like sales planning or workforce budgeting.

The core features of Budgeting and Planning are as follows:

• Create strategic plans quickly and easily, and cascade strategies throughout your organization.
• Create tactical plans and link them to your strategic plans.
• Collaborate on planning.
• Predict trends, create accurate models, and monitor performance against plans.
• Build financial and workforce budgets at the level of detail you require.
• Achieve buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Monitor budget submissions and approvals anytime, anywhere.
• Apply leading edge statistical forecasting techniques to predict where your business is going and support more accurate planning efforts.
• Take advantage of a fast in-memory database for multi-dimensional analysis, planning, and modeling-making your plans more accurate.
• Obtain near-real time actuals and be able to drill back to transaction level detail.

Financial Consolidation

Increase accountability, meet reporting deadlines, and get a clear view of the information you need to improve your business' performance. You can accommodate mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and other structure changes with a simple "drag and drop" of data.With CPM Financial Consolidation, you can simplify the tasks associated with consolidation, so you can spend more time analyzing results and guiding the business.

The core features of Financial Consolidation are as follows:

• Store data in a central, secure database, and ensure everyone sees only the information they're entitled to see.
• Quickly and easily collect data from operating units around the globe and across disparate financial or operational systems, departmental structures, and supply chains.
• Consolidate statutory and management data to meet local and international reporting standards.
• Easily establish group inventory levels and procurement requirements, allowing for bulk ordering and improved discount negotiations.
• Support multiple currencies and local compliance reporting needs.