ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
SAS for Profitability & Cost Management
Driving better business decisions with more accurate cost modeling

SAS Profitability & Cost Management is an analytic application that models business processes to accurately determine process, product and customer cost and profitability. With this solution, you can make informed decisions to streamline processes, deliver revenue growth and reduce costs across the organisation.
SAS provides the Profitability & Cost Managemen (PCM) solution within the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution suite. It provides activity-based costing and profitability modeling capabilities through a multi-dimensional calculation and reporting engine, providing cost and profitability information of customers, products, and channels, etc. by activity and resource. It supports both traditional cost allocation and consumption-based resource capacity modeling, including time-based transaction costing.
SAS Profitability & Cost Management (the new name for SAS Activity-Based Management) is an analytic application that determines cost and profitability by modeling business processes as cost flows among accounts.
BENEFITS:
FEATURES:
SAS provides the Profitability & Cost Managemen (PCM) solution within the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution suite. It provides activity-based costing and profitability modeling capabilities through a multi-dimensional calculation and reporting engine, providing cost and profitability information of customers, products, and channels, etc. by activity and resource. It supports both traditional cost allocation and consumption-based resource capacity modeling, including time-based transaction costing.
SAS Profitability & Cost Management (the new name for SAS Activity-Based Management) is an analytic application that determines cost and profitability by modeling business processes as cost flows among accounts.
BENEFITS:
- Evolve the way you do business
- Manage shared service cost allocations
- Improve processes by identifying activities that don’t add value
- Understand the effects of cost and process variations on performance
FEATURES:
- Dimensional profitability analysis allows you to calculate and report profitability contributions to business segments such as product, customer and organisation.
- Capacity costing and modeling includes available vs. used or idle capacity, what-if analysis for resource planning and activity-based budgeting.
- Account search helps you find dimension members within a deep hierarchy, or search accounts with no cost/assignment or attributes.
- Intra-modular assignments assign costs in the same module and allow flexible cost pooling and flowing.
- Reciprocal cost assignments provide simultaneous two-way cost assignments between accounts and trace detailed cost flows.
- External and internal bills of cost can be linked directly to an account.