"FirstQuarter has worked with business people in a variety of industries to build, report, query and analysis applications that resulted in improved performance."

From Finance to Purchasing, CPM solutions empower every member of your team to make better decisions more quickly, allowing your organization to be more competitive.

Finance

  • Establish a common information base to the finance team allowing all parties to work with a single version of the “truth”
  • Streamline the collection, consolidation, and reporting of actual results, budgets, and forecasts
  • Improve the accuracy and reliability of information
  • Gain more confidence in budgeting and planning processes
  • Run multiple what-if scenarios on financial statements easily

Purchasing

  • Track vendor performance on an on-going basis
  • Predict which vendor is best suited to deliver against given parameters
  • Increase net profits by reducing costs on the materials line
  • Increase cash flow by reducing inventory

Sales

  • Use sales information to increase fact-based selling opportunities
  • Improve profit contribution by drilling into customer and product profitability
  • Reduce sales forecast preparation from days/year to hour/year for every salesperson
  • Track sales vs. forecast across line of business or geography

Human Resources

  • Use HR data to derive key productivity measures
  • Highlight key costs by location or line of business
  • Tailor benefits and incentives to each employee
  • Align payroll and HR data to gain a true sense of your organization’s demographics