In today’s self-service business environment, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are invaluable for consolidating data in a single place—but that’s only half the story. Optimised for back-office transaction processing and operational process support, ERP systems lack the agility to support complex financial processes.

That’s where enterprise performance management (EPM) software comes in. By replacing spreadsheets or proprietary applications used to support complex financial management processes, EPM solutions can take your ERP system to a whole new level.

Taking the next step in decision-making

When it comes to addressing market and customer demands, you can’t afford to let your valuable data assets become trapped in your ERP system, especially if you’re running an aging or legacy system. Your business applications must be able to support changes quickly, so you can keep pace with your competitors, exceed customer expectations, and ensure your continuous operations are free of service disruptions. Infor d/EPM can help you achieve all of these goals.

Thinking before you act

Here’s how Infor d/EPM’s valued added analysis works – ERP systems support basic financial and management reporting, including top-level financial statements, such as the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows, as well as back office transaction processing and operational process support. This data is typically summarised in the general ledger (GL).

Despite the breadth of their reach, most ERP systems fall short when it comes to supporting more complex financial processes. That’s where Infor d/EPM comes in, because it is designed to collect and consolidate financial results from single or multiple GLs, and other data sources.

With the reporting and analytics tools in Infor d/EPM supporting your financial consolidation and reporting needs, as well as your budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes, you can:

■ Consolidate and report financial results from multiple ERP/GL systems.

■ Iteratively collect, compile, and manage financial and operational budgets.

■ Manage a rolling forecast process.

■ Perform “what-if” scenario modelling of different financial or operational scenarios.

Consolidate data and automate processes

Infor d/EPM is designed to collect and consolidate financial results from single or multiple general ledgers, and other data sources, meaning you get built-in support for complexities such as currency translation, intercompany eliminations, and reporting under multiple accounting guidelines.

It also provides flexible, self-service reporting tools that allow finance users to easily create and produce a wide variety of financial and management reports, with no IT support. You can automate and accelerate the period-end close and reporting process—and spend more time on value-added analysis.

If you want to learn more about d/EPM and begin the digital transformation of your finance team, simply contact us on 01698 844 600 or visit our website for some more information.