Profitability and cost management – Identify the causes of under performance and take action to reduce costs and optimize profitability.

• SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management helps companies:
• User-friendly, rapid and efficient model building.
• Flexible assignment paths.
• Scalable, enterprise-class solution.
• Reliable, on-demand what-if analysis and scenario modeling.
• Higher-value cost and profitability reporting.

• IT services costing
• Accurately calculate and cross-charge for shared services.
• Comprehensive invoices allow users to leverage detailed IT services usage and costs.

• Cost to serve
• Monitor and manage costs, pricing and true profitability.
• Assign overheads and indirect costs to customers, products and channels.

• Customer value analysis
• Access cost and profitability data by customer, product or business channel.
• Identify and understand issues quickly.

• Bill of material costing
• Calculate cost impact of carbon footprint and analyze for strategic decision making.
• Assign, monitor and analyze overhead costs tied to bill of materials.
• Activity based costing
• Gain visibility into cost and profitability drivers through activity-centric multidimensional modeling and analysis functionality.
• Apply multiple activity based costing methodologies including time-driven activity based costing.