Profitability Calculations and Activity-based Costing
Customer Story
PostFinance needed a solution to calculate the profitability of each single customer with a contribution margin schema and the ability to allocate cost alongside their business model with an activity-based costing methodology.
Company
PostFinance
Headquarters
Berne, Switzerland
Industry
Banking
Products & Services
Retail Banking and Payment Solutions Products
Customers
1.4 Million
Website
www.postfinance.ch
What was
Accomplished
Our industry-focused teams specialize in understanding specific business needs to shape solutions that create efficiencies and power performance. We speak your language, and our deep industry experience provides the best framework for delivering action-oriented results that fit your operational needs.
Solution
SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM)
- High performance engine to calculate single customer profitability using a multi-level contribution margin scheme
- Fully integrated with internal systems and components and external systems
- Easy to integrate with future S/4 HANA landscape
- Easy to manage by finance people with minimum IT involvement
Challenges
Improve Functionality and Performance
- Support decision-making regarding closure or introduction of new products and pricing decisions, including discounts for single customers
- Capture all cost in all required granularities and trace them back to their origin
- Multidimensional and flexible activity-based costing allocations
- Ensure precise profitability measuring and pricing
- Run the processes with controlling department employees
Benefits
Efficient & Flexible Cost Allocation Solution
- Transparency in analyzing complex cost allocation and tracing results back to cost origin
- Optimized costing process and efficiency to assess and understand activities and components generating the cost
- Alignment across countries for unified processes and comparable costs
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Implementation Services
We bring expertise, a customer-centric philosophy, and a focus on innovation to everything we do.
Partnership Approach
Success through collaboration to deliver a solution aligned with your business needs, now & into the future.
Strategic Guidance
Tailored consulting services that guide your strategy across the entire SAP analytics suite to maximize your ROI.
Business Solution Experts
Match your business challenges with our functional, industry & technical experts to drive innovation.
Why
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Operating from offices across the globe, our expert teams help clients achieve operational efficiency and improve decision-making capabilities.
Dedicated
Team
Provided a state-of-the-art solution to cover all PostFinance requirements
Global
Leader
For SAP Profitability & Performance Management activity-based costing implementations
Relevant
Advice
Ability to provide best practices for all requirements
Thorough
Enablement
Sophisticated training plan for the controlling team to manage calculation model and costing processes
How can we help?
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