Manage Costs and Improve Profitability

To optimize profitability, you need to identify your most valuable customers and products, while testing the impact that changes in pricing and process improvements have on costs and profitability. This will give you the insight to act decisively, with a clear understanding of impact. But to do this successfully, you need streamlined, connected processes that deliver credible, reliable results to your users.

The SAP BusinessObjects Profitability & Cost Management application can help. This scalable software is owned and managed by the business users and can allow you to accurately and effectively measure product, customer, and channel profitability and develop and dynamically test ways to improve each.

Shared Services Costing

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management provides comprehensive functionality for shared services costing, which can help business units make informed decisions about their use of shared services and provides insight into the cost of individual services enabling them to make better informed decisions themselves – all of which helps drive down the cost of shared services.

Cost to Serve

With SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management, you can monitor and manage costs and pricing – so you can gain actionable insight into the true drivers of profitability across your enterprise.

Customer Profitability

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management offers functionality for customer value analysis, enabling your company to access cost and profitability data by customer, product, or distribution channel. As a result, you can quickly identify and understand issues and test changes that can improve the bottom line result.