Struggling with budgeting delays, inaccurate data, or outdated planning models? Planning Wand empowers your team to manage and upload accurate, real-time forecasts directly from Excel into SAP.
Excel is Still the Default Planning Tool
If your team depends on Excel for planning, deadlines often slip. Without a direct SAP connection, it’s hard to stay efficient and up to date.
Manual Maintenance Is Inefficient
Manually formatting and consolidating planning models takes hours, wastes talent, and introduces errors into critical business forecasts.
Lack of Real-Time Accuracy
Without proper integration, you can’t be confident your budgets reflect the most current SAP data—leading to flawed assumptions and missed targets.
Bring Your Excel Planning Models to Life
Create, modify, and upload new plans quickly with Planning Wand, an Excel add-in that allows for the validation and uploading of planning data from Excel into SAP. Take advantage of familiar Excel to easily achieve monthly forecasting instead of only yearly planning.
Maximize Existing Investments in SAP and Excel
Real-time Excel models avoid the constraints of manual, time-consuming processes and empower companies to update plans and produce new forecasts quickly and easily. Planning Wand, used with GL Wand, transforms Excel into the front-end for SAP planning functionality.
Budgeting for Better Business Outcomes
Whether the fiscal planning process is an exciting time for you, or the idea of your next budgeting exercise leaves you cringing with the anxiety of chaos and long nights – this whitepaper will introduce you to the common budgeting approaches and challenges, while introducing ways to overcome them.
Learn:
- The structure of a functioning budget process
- The current state of the budgeting process for most small-to-medium sized businesses
- The risks in the most common approaches to budgeting and how to overcome them
And more!
