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% of your net income.

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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.