Re: Annual Financial and Budget Planning -- MAPICS-L

   Try Cognos Planning. It is the best on the market. It is a complete
   end-to-end Corporate Perfomance Management solution. You can start out
   with the budgeting and grow with Cognos as needed.

   (See attached file: PLANNING_MANAGERfin.pdf)

   You can go direct to Cognos or potentially work with me. Yes I am a Sales
   Executive for SSA Global Technologies. I work with AS/400 solutions like
   BPCS, PRMS, KBM (Data 3), Infinium, Warehouse Boss, etc..

   The CPM solutions will work with MAPICs as well. Good Luck! Call if you
   need anything. I would be happy to help.

   L Scott Donnelly
   SSA GT Sales Executive
   SSA Global Technologies
   15 Macclesfield Drive
   Medford, NJ 08055
   Office - 609-953-2473
   Mobile - 856-265-1212
   Facsimile--609-953-8324
   website: www.ssaglobal.com
   email: Scott.Donnelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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   We looked pretty closely at FRx and it touches on the issues you bring up.

   I'm not an expert at it, as we did not acquire it (financially
   conservative mode)
   but I would suggest you take a look.

   It really is pretty slick, IS & Accounting liked it.

   Good luck.....james

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   Annual Financial and Budget Planning

   What additional software packages are people using to help efficiently
   navigate the budget planning cycle?

   (We do not have IFM, and do load our final budget in with FA and GL).

   Our planning cycle starts with a review of our sales forecast for the next
   year by item within customer.
   We loaded the item forecast information into MRP (in a test environment)
   with anticipated year end inventory levels and then built a material
   supply
   plan and a rough cut capacity analysis from that.

   Then we use the projected price increases (with the 50 different price
   books) to project revenue by customer, by month.

   This system becomes excessively cumbersome when we try to do what if
   'games' for example: if raw materials prices are increased by 10% for one
   group of items and 17% for another group how does that impact the
   financial
   plan.

   Are there tools that I should be using that have been effective for you?
   (Does anyone have experience with a software package called BUDGET
   MAESTRO?)

   Thanks

   Roger Blocher
   TECH International

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