Capital Project Planning Performance Blueprint

What if it were possible to have a single capital expenditure planning system that met the needs of your divisions all over the world and enabled each planner to submit capital expenditure requests in their local currency while consolidating real-time in the home country currency?

IBM offers IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints, which are predefined data, process and policy models that provide best-practice approaches to performance management. Provided at no additional cost to IBM customers, Performance Blueprints feature dashboards, analytical reports, pre-configured data models and more to facilitate rapid time-to-value.

The Capital Project Planning Blueprint meets a number of objectives:

Streamline the capital planning process. Provide management with justification for each capital request. Allow for individual expenditure planning in local currency, while consolidating in home-country currency. Facilitate assessments based on capital request priorities and risk. Manipulate the timing or amount of capital expenditures and compare several different adjustment scenarios. Tailor depreciation calculations to match accounting standards in various countries. Track the depreciation on existing and forecast assets to see a complete view of projected depreciation expense.

The Capital Project Planning Blueprint facilitates an effective process that blends capital planning with analysis of the impact of planning decisions on income statements, along with balance sheets and cash flows.