Business Modelling Associates Resource Centre
Discover more about the advantages of doing business with Business Modeling Associates. Additionally, learn about the specific features and benefits of our integrated business planning (IBP) solutions.
White Papers
- Breakthrough Performance Improvement (241.07kB)
"River Logic's Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) technology delivers unique and breakthrough market cap improvement insights for consultants and their clients. EO creates a unified model of a business, detailing rationale for the best strategic, tactical and operational decisions that optimize financial performance. EO provides a platform to codify proprietary insights. Consultants seeking better ways to serve their clients and leverage their IP should embrace EO." - Capital Asset Strategy (306.55kB)
Succeeding in today's volatile marketplace requires a new approach to strategic planning - An approach built on a closed-loop process that can be refined and reevaluated at the speed of change. - Center for Value Chain Research Newsletter (105.11kB)
We begin this fall newsletter by thanking so many of you for taking the time to send us emails, for contacting us by phone, for visiting our website, and for meeting with us in person. - Customer and Channel Profitability (3.67MB)
Using past performance as the basis for planning is no longer relevant. Managers using yesterday's data to chart the course ahead will know what was - maybe even what is - while those embracing "forward-looking" analytics and profitability optimization will know what is best. - Delivering Unprecedented Shareholder Value with Holistic Enterprise Modeling Technology (3.27MB)
Optimizing business decisions and plans requires the ability to dynamically integrate with financial and opera tional plans that have a foundation with an enterprise model and metrics that can be used consistently across the management in an enterprise. RiverLogic has helped organizations move beyond silos of systems and spreadsheets to a consistent and more accurate way of mana ging performance of business - Elevating S&OP to Integrated Business Planning (335.85kB)
Improve performance by elevating and optimizing the S&OP process to financial outcomes. - Enterprise Planning & Optimization (239.95kB)
Most companies today operate with standard costing systems, using spreadsheets to evaluate strategic alternatives and make financial planning decisions. Increased complexity of operations, faster market changes and stronger competition are forcing companies across a variety of industries to re-evaluate these systems. The objectives are to improve their planning and decision-making, and to align execution with strategy. - Fundamentals of Profit Improvement (157.08kB)
Every organization is obligated to seek answers to the question, "How can the organization maximize the value we generate for our stakeholders?" The most compelling answer, the one that is driving business today, comes from antiquity: "by leveraging knowledge." - Integrated Business Planning (206.45kB)
Strategy has become one of the most widely used, and misused, terms in business. Some leaders believe that strategy is the only way to compete in today's complex and fluid business environment; while others recognize the value of strategy but think strategic planning is dead. - Integrated Business Planning for Mitigating Risk (309.73kB)
Business leaders are embracing a new, intelligent modeling technology that increases the effectiveness of their risk management activities through integration, simulation, optimization, and scenario management. - Integrating Enterprise Optimizer with PerformancePoint Server 2007 (182.92kB)
River Logic's Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) combined with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server® (PPS) 2007 provides true Integrated Business Planning. Managers using EO have greater insights and make better decisions by understanding which activities and interactions drive financial performance. Additionally, PPS and EO enable users to maximize their existing Business Intelligence by providing strategy formulation, financial planning, and budgeting and forecasting, in a holistic planning and modeling system. - Inventory Strategy Optimization (273.83kB)
The optimal Inventory Strategy supports the company's strategic and financial objectives while maximizing service levels. The optimal solution improves corporate performance by simultaneously considering working capital, inventory policy, and the cash-conversion cycle. - Looking Ahead to Profitable Growth (381.12kB)
Profitable growth is undoubtedly the CPG industry's greatest, most elusive challenge. - Maximizing the Value of Capital Expenditures (454.45kB)
Maximizing ROI from Capital Expenditures requires an approach that considers the marginal impact each investment has on key variables such as input prices, processing costs, diminishing returns, end-product prices; even tax liabilities. - Palladium Executing Strategy (1.66MB)
The Balanced Scorecard system (BSC), developed by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton over the last 20 years, is the first comprehensive system developed to help senior management improve their companys execution of strategy. - Performance - Based Planning (981.14kB)
Corporate performance improves exponentially when the best-of-the-best team-up. And Microsoft® and River Logic have done just that - Teamed-up to deliver the world's most powerful and advanced performance management solution. - Performance Monitoring (277.14kB)
The rate in which corporate decisions are made continues to escalate. Making the best decision, and doing it promptly, requires a system that quickly transforms information into insight. Scorecards, combined with predictive modeling, increase corporate agility by delivering faster and deeper insights, in near real-time. - Plans are Nothing. Planning is Everything (128.19kB)
Decades of development in managerial accounting, operations research, raw computing power, software development, process modeling, data management, and graphics are combining in ways that are rapidly altering the world of integrated decision making. We are on the cusp of a revolution. - Product Profitability (387.93kB)
Product related decisions are typically made with a limited understanding of the products' true impact on corporate performance. - Production Scheduling Optimization (226.65kB)
Production Scheduling Optimization simultaneously considers all possible product-routings; then determines the most profitable path. - Redefining the Tools of Engagement (670.05kB)
In the consultant's world the name of the game is engagement. Or to be more specific, client engagement. It's a simple formula, one that is typical of any service related organization. - Six Levels of Financial Knowledge (193.78kB)
Here's a framework that management accountants can use to help their organizations reach new heights of financial understanding and become more profitable. - Strategic Enterprise Optimization in the Forest Products Industry (1.31MB)
During my early years in Artificial Intelligence and Management Science research, we discovered that even the most advanced decision support technologies failed to consider both process and financial constraints simultaneously. - Supply & Demand Chain (243.51kB)
100 ways to innovate your supply chain with the providers of next-wave supply chain services and solutions. - Supply Chain Management (816.7kB)
Referencing acquisitions synergies and the effects of divestitures to pricing optimization to boost market share, and sloped demand and supply curves driven by the volume, cost, or price-and actual resulting revenue margins, this VP of Business Development and Optimization of a worldwide leader in CPG says, "(Enterprise Optimizer (EO))...the most advanced version of optimization in a business context that I've ever seen. We have changed multiple million-dollar decisions based on EO. I'd be surprised if we haven't already saved $100 million dollars." - The Advanced M&A Approach (242.46kB)
But I can tell you as a former CEO, this is the first position that should latch onto this software because it's miraculous in its ability to view all dimensions pre and post-merger and provide a roadmap for realizing the synergies expected in the acquisition. - The Power of Integrated Decision Making (111.36kB)
More so than ever, today's enterprises are complex organizations with many interacting, interdependent parts. Without technological assistance, it's virtually impossible to anticipate the consequences any individual decision will have throughout an entire enterprise. - Turning Decisions into Dollars (787.47kB)
SCM, SCP, SCE, MES, ERP, BI, and BPM* certainly have a common link, but more importantly they share a critical disconnect - A missing link that causes these systems to under deliver.
