Operational Planning

The Challenge: Changing business environments, complex planning
Crown Solution: Robust operational planning
Business Benefits: Decreased operational costs, improved performance

The Challenge

Effective operational planning requires an enormous degree of flexibility to immediately respond to rapidly changing business environments. Yet too often, various planning tools are isolated from each other, resulting in excessive planning cycles and poor decision-making. Instead, companies need a collaborative environment that can integrate and broaden the scope of enterprise planning. With the right operational planning solution, you can link together operational and financial planning. You can also engage in fact-based decision-making, cross-functional impact assessments, and improved, more predictable overall business performance.

Crown Solution

Crown's Operational Planning solution offers streamlined budgeting and planning, along with the necessary governance to ensure accuracy. Using a centralized, web-based toolset, the solution can assist you with your important budgeting, forecasting, and planning activities. The Operational Planning solution—which aligns operational and financial planning—enables real-time interaction with audits, controls, workflow management, and business-based rules. You can easily customize the solution to incorporate your unique business requirements, and you can configure it to handle top-down and bottom-up planning. With robust operational planning capabilities, your managers can quickly adjust to changing demand and unstable costs, for successful operational planning.

Business Benefits

Crown provides enterprise performance management solutions that improve business performance by delivering unparalleled insight into business-critical information. With Crown's Operational Planning solution, you can:

Align financial and operational plans
Achieve consensus across functions
Understand the business-wide impact of plan revisions
Reduce planning cycles and improve productivity
Leverage existing financial and supply chain planning solutions
Achieve rapid user adoption through a Microsoft Excel interface
Decrease operational costs
Mitigate compliance risk