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SAP eases CapEx planning for capital-intensive corporations |
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SAP has announced the launch of a starter kit for capital planning under the wing of its SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application. The kit is designed to help companies in capital-intensive industries move to a more organized planning approach from the widely prevalent spread sheet aggregations or custom applications.  SAP says the starter kit is an effort to further help organizations streamline the entire capital-expenditure planning process, as most often capital planning is done manually by aggregating content from individual spreadsheets or building custom applications. Its new starter kit is meant to provide an automated way to request, plan, model and evaluate large, complex projects as well as smaller, simpler ones. Developed in collaboration with SAP partner Aster Group, the starter kit is targeted at organizations in capital-intensive industries like automotive, chemicals and oil and gas. It features built-in templates and content that walk users through the planning process, and offers some customization options. The starter kit features embedded analyses of investment returns using industry-standard methodologies such as internal rate of return and payback period and can be used either as a stand-alone solution or with existing deployments of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform. |
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