Business and Finance Administration

Timely insight into cost-of-goods, human capital, energy consumption and asset utilization allows retailers to run efficient and dynamic businesses.

The IBM Business and Finance Administration solution for retail offers a complete business intelligence platform to support smarter decisions. Dynamic capabilities in budgeting, forecasting, and analysis give you the ability to meet your financial and performance goals.

The Business and Finance Administration solution contains integrated applications and projects in these essential retail areas. Select your highest priority projects and add others as you need them.

Financial Performance Management and Analytics
Integrate with other operational systems such as order management and inventory tracking. Get insights from multiple perspectives from a common integrated platform. Customizable templates help you develop financial models, and the analytics dashboard allows you to create and monitor key performance indicators.

Human Capital Management
Gain better visibility and insight into workforce productivity with templates and reports you can customize. Understand the costs of attracting and retaining talent and track retention.

Enterprise Asset Management
Manage your physical assets and understand how to best control your costs. Reduce the need to replace assets and avoid outages through better preventive maintenance. Track key metrics such as maintenance and replacement schedules. Consolidate all your asset information.

Real Estate Management
Better manage your physical assets including leased stores with real estate portfolio management tools. Gain better visibility into operational facilities management and improve energy consumption while reducing environmental emissions.

• Consolidate financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting systems.
• Integrate systems with performance data from operations.
• Analyze alternative scenarios based on market developments or forecasts.
• Create custom tailored views of individual operating units.
• Utilize sales performance data in your performance objectives.
• Create new business models using financial data.
• Improve productivity of real estate operations.

IBM has proven enterprise software products for Business and Finance Administration, which are used by leading retailers worldwide.

To learn more about how IBM Retail Industry solutions can help your business grow, contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner.