SAS^® Cost and Profitability Management

Driving better business decisions with more accurate cost modeling.

SAS Cost and Profitability Management is an analytic application that models business processes to accurately determine process, product and customer cost and profitability. With this solution, you can make informed decisions to streamline processes, deliver revenue growth and reduce costs across the organization.

Benefits

Evolve the way you do business.

Gain insights into cost accumulation in a way that management, marketing and operations personnel – not just finance experts – can understand and act on. Tie financial results and KPIs to strategy by measuring profitability at the division, department, channel and individual product and customer levels.

Manage shared service cost allocations.

Get a more accurate reflection of true costs and profitability by managing how shared service costs and IT chargebacks get allocated to products, customers, channels and services. Create more accurate budgets and workforce plans.

Improve processes by identifying activities that don’t add value.

Identify cost bottlenecks, rework and non-value-added activity. Use what-if analysis to model and simulate how changes in driver volumes affect costs, profit and resource requirements.

Understand the effects of cost and process variations on performance.

High-performance in-memory modeling quickly identifies issues and provides insight into weak links in the supply chain, underutilized capacity and opportunities for cross sell and up sell. Complex models that used to take hours or overnight to update can now be run in a fraction of the time.