How to establish long-term success and profitability

How to establish
long-term success
and profitability
PROFITABILITY AND COST MANAGEMENT
Cost and profitability analyzes
For 20 years we have been developing cost and profitability analyzes and methodology
that can be used to improve financial performance and to secure a long-term success.
Working closely with our customers we have developed activity based costing
solutions that can help you decrease your costs and improve your profitability.
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Use Prodacapo to find out the profitability per market and how to act proactively to keep the most profitable markets, develop the
less profitable and change the unprofitable markets
We help you combine
a solution based on
your challenges, no
matter whether your
needs are reducing
costs, increasing
profitability, assuring
quality, greater
utilizing of resources,
measurable targets
or a combination of
these.
Our clients use our cost- and profitability analyzes
to improve the customer and product strategies,
become more efficient and to increase the profitability. Regardless of the type of questions you are facing,
a fact-based data approach is important for achieving
the right outcome. Change becomes easier if everyone
in the organization understands the rationale behind
the decisions made.
Prodacapo offers an activity based solution to
identify costing that is rooted in the organization,
thereby creating an understanding throughout the
organization. The solution allows your organization to
view cost in a way they have never seen them before.
When everyone understands the costing model and
how the activities within the organization affect the
costs and profitability you can start using the analysis result to improve your business. This means you
need to find out not only the accurate information
on costs, but also providing the insights into why the
costs vary.
The costs are traced
according to how customers
consume products and
services, which in turn are
driven by activities and the
resources utilized to conduct
the activities.
Graphical analyzes and full traceability
Our analyzes enable full traceability and information
that can be used to act proactively and improve the
financial performance.
A graphical presentation of the cost flow makes
it easy to follow and understand the cost flow. This
transparent picture of the cost flow and resource consumption leads to a greater understanding and insight
of the cost appearance and how you can influence
the outcome. The graphical overview presents the
costs and by clicking backwards and forward in the
cost flow you can explore the cost tracings in detail.
You can clearly see what activities causing the costs
and more easily find out where the cost flow can be
streamlined for a cost reduction - without impairing
other parts.
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Click backward and forward in the graphical cost flow to explore the cost tracings in detail.
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Prodacapo
includes
a lot of standard reports,
charts
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views. In addition you can use
our predefined fact
tables to get the data you need for your analysis,
which means you can do in-depth multi-dimensional
analyzes in external analysis tools without needing
any knowledge about the Prodacapo database.
By adding a role based portal you can publish and
customize the information in the way the people in
the organization want to see it, depending on their
role in the company.
Fast and flexible
Prodacapo includes smart and easy-to-use functionality that makes it easy for you to rapidly get up and
running – even if your organization is large and complex. Prodacapo is designed for easy implementation,
maintenance and update.
It’s easy to integrate with your existing IT-systems,
databases, data warehouse, allowing for example automatic updates of your data.
Only administrators need to install the software.
Other users can easily access the analysis result via
their standard web browser. The system is based upon
modern technology, is scalable and includes rich functionality for security and user management.
To simplify the update of your
cost- and profitability analysis we
recommend using Time Driven ABC
(TDABC). Ask us for more information!
Use Prodacapo to get:
• Well proven methodology and software,
based on our long and thorough experience
in translating customer needs into concrete
solutions.
• A costing solution that is simple to update
and requires a minimal of manual handling.
• Increased insight. Our graphical presentation
of the cost flow makes it easy to follow and
understand the cost appearance and how you
can influence the costs
Cost &
Profitability
Management
Analysis
Scorecard
Simulation
Our solutions are all tools for performance management. We
help you putting together a solution based on your challenges
and needs, no matter whether your needs are reducing costs,
increasing profitability, assuring the quality of processes and
operations, a greater planning and utilization of resources,
setting up/follow up action plans and measurable targets or a
combination of these challenges.
Process
Continuous improvement
Customized analyzes
Uniquely, our costing model includes a process mapping tool enabling rapid modeling and visualization
of processes, activities, resources (staff, equipments,
etc.) and their related costs. A combination of activity
based costing, resource and process mapping is a great
support for the understanding of improvements and
streamlining of the organization as it provides you
with a comprehensive picture that bridges the gap
between finance and operations.
Our costing solutions come with a variety of analysis
views and standard reports. For customized analyzes,
such as in-depth multi-dimensional analyzes using
external analysis tools, you can use our predefined
fact tables that contain the data you need, e.g. all
product related data for a product analysis.
Our services
Add our planning and simulation tool to simulate
and plan future resource capacity, costs and profitability. Our planning solution is activity based to
establish the actual cause-and-effect relationships
between resource usage and the services you deliver,
a relationship often absent in traditional planning,
which is based on different people’s estimation of the
previous year’s values.
Our offering includes more than delivering a software
or reports. Prodacapo and our network of certified
partners provide a full range of consulting, training
and support services for your long-term success.
Our experienced consultants and partners help you
to meet your business needs and to implement our
software rapidly and cost-effectively. We transfer
knowledge on best practices and make sure you and
your organization know how to use the Prodacapo
software solutions to achieve maximum value.
From strategy to action
Contact us
Complete your activity based costing solution with
our scorecard to communicate strategy and concrete
action plans to all levels of the organization. Using
a scorecard makes it easier to establish commitment
and responsibility for business performance and to
focus on the critical success factors.
Ready for a change? Contact us via e-mail, [email protected], or call us at +46 8 622 25 00. Visit our
website www.prodacapo.com to read about how and
why our customers use Prodacapo.
Simulations with cause-effect links
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Prodacapo AB was founded in 1994. We have specialized in software solutions for profitability
and cost management. Our headquarters are located in Stockholm, Sweden. Our solutions are
available from an expanding international network of partners and distributors, as well as
directly from Prodacapo. Some of our users are Scania, Pipelife, Telenor, SPP and Skandia.