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SAS® Profitability Management

Understand and manage profitability at the most detailed level

SAS Profitability Management provides accurate cost and profit calculations based on the rule-driven allocation of expenses and revenue down to the individual transaction. By providing insight into profitability factors, the solution helps decision makers focus on opportunities for profitability improvement – such as preventing unprofitable customers from destroying up to 400 percent of your net income.

Benefits

  • Allocate costs quickly and easily.
  • Speed up budgeting and reporting.
  • Import models from SAS Activity-Based Management.

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Features

  • Drillable, customizable reporting
  • Individual or multiple behavior assignments
  • Flexible driver rules
  • UI-based rules creation
  • Model build via import
  • Multiple application support
  • Dimension table management

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Fully customizable P&L reports.


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How SAS® Is Different

SAS Profitability Management builds on our experience of implementing SAS Activity-Based Management at more than 750 customer sites. We strive to listen, learn and then develop innovative solutions that create value for our customers. 

The analytic support of SAS Profitability Manager allows you to maximize the insights, utilization and value of your profitability information.

  • Calculate profitability at a detailed level for substantial volumes of cost drivers and transactions.
  • Calculate costs at the level of individual transactions.
  • Define rules for viewing cost calculations using a rules-based engine.
  • Support multiple costing and management methods for flexibility in modeling the way your business is designed.
  • Maximize the insights, utilization and value of your profitability information with analytic support.
  • Enhance the process of accessing, calculating and deploying profitability information by accessing the shared technology platform.

Benefits

  • Allocate costs quickly and easily. SAS Profitability Management allows you to create a robust assignment model in a point-and-click environment quickly and far more accurately than traditional allocation engines. Once the rules are set up, allocation results can be used to more accurately identify clusters of customer behavior as priority segments for improvement.
  • Speed up budgeting and reporting. Results can be bulk loaded into departmental budgeting and reporting systems, reducing the budget cycle and enabling a greater level of detail for planning and reporting.
  • Import models from SAS Activity-Based Management. By importing models, you can get the sophistication of the SAS Activity-Based Management model with the speed and capabilities of SAS Profitability Management. You’ll have the flexibility to run profit reports daily or weekly. rather than monthly or quarterly, to see exactly how changes in your operating environment affect cost and profit by transaction. 

Features

Drillable, customizable reporting
  • Web reporting interface generates fully customizable reports showing revenue, cost contributions, total profit and other value categories in the standard vertical format used by financial systems.
Individual or multiple behavior assignments
  • Assignment rules can match a single transaction to both single and multiple behaviors and track the values uniquely associated with each one.
Flexible driver rules
  • Assigned values can be calculated using either unit values or total values
UI-based rules creation
  • Numeric, dimensional lineage and string comparisons can be used in selection clauses to create advanced rules based on virtually any costing methodology.
Model build via import
  • Entire models can be built based on tables that can be registered into the SAS Metadata Server.
  • Individual or multiple tables can be registered into SAS Metadata Server.
  • Multiple formats from multiple data sources can be used to build tables.
Multiple application support
  • Reporting and analysis by all SAS solutions and analytic products, as well as many third-party products, is available through tables output and registered in the SAS Metadata Server.
Dimension table management
  • Unlimited dimensions from virtually any data source can be stored for use in reporting and assignment rules.

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Fully customizable P&L reports.

Fully customizable P&L reports are surfaced through a user-friendly Web reporting interface.

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Explore net contribution by customer in a highly visual way.

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Compare costs by business unit for any line item in the P&L.

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System Requirements

Client Environment

Operating systems with Internet Explorer 7 or 8
  • Windows XP Professional SP3 (32/64-bit)
  • Windows Vista SP2 (Enterprise, Business or Ultimate, 32/64-bit)
  • Windows 7 (Enterprise, Ultimate or Professional, 32/64-bit)
Minimum processor speed
  • 2GHz
Memory requirements
  • 1GB RAM

Server Environment

Operating system/application server
  • IBM AIX 6.1, with IBM WebSphere 6.1 or 7, ND or OEM
  • Red Hat Linux 5.4, with Red Hat JBoss EAP
  • Red Hat Linux 5.4, with IBM WebSphere 6.1 or 7, ND or OEM
  • Sun Solaris/SPARC v10, with Oracle WebLogic 10.3
  • Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition (32/64-bit), with Oracle WebLogic 10.3
  • Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2 (64-bit), with Oracle WebLogic 10.3 or Red Hat JBoss EAP
  • Windows 2008 Server R1 Service Pack 2 (32/64-bit), with Oracle WebLogic 10.3, or IBM WebSphere 6.1 or 7, ND or OEM, or Red Hat JBoss EAP
  • Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 Service Pack 2 (64-bit), with Oracle WebLogic 10.3, or IBM WebSphere 6.1 or 7, ND or OEM, or Red Hat JBoss EAP
Database
  • MySQL Server 5.0.80 (32-bit)
  • MySQL Server 5.0.86 (64-bit)
  • Oracle 11g
  • SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Service Pack 1 (32/64-bit)
  • SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services Service Pack 1 (32/64-bit)
Minimum processor speed
  • Four cores, 32-bit at 2GHz (four cores, 64-bit at 3GHz or better recommended)
Memory requirements
  • 16GB RAM

Hardware Requirements

The minimum hardware requirements for memory and processor speed can vary greatly depending on the use of each solution. The Enterprise Excellence Center at SAS has a sizing and configuration program; please contact the EEC for accurate hardware sizing, including migration from prior releases, and contact your SAS representative with any additional questions about technical requirements.

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