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
EMPLOYEES
1.4 Million
WEBSITE
www.postfinance.ch
INDUSTRY
Banking
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Retail Banking and Payment Solutions Products
SAP Profitability and Performance Management allowed us to automate our closing process and significantly shorten the execution time, producing a high-quality result. Besides, we can run it with our internal employees and don't require external consultants.
Martin Stalder
PostFinance, Head of Controlling Department
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 costs 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 the controlling department employees
BENEFITS
Efficient & flexible cost allocation solution
- Increased efficiency and faster performance
- Improved user experience and simple to operate for the business users
- Flexibility with simulations, data mapping, and logic factors
- Reduced IT dependence and self-service environment for ad-hoc analysis and urgent amendments
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