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CCH® Tagetik inTouch is calling: AKC is one of the Platinum Sponsors
After two years of virtual events imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the CCH® Tagetik inTouch global user conference is back in attendance. The event will take place from 21 to 23 September 2022 in Lucca at the Real Collegio. Also in this edition AKC Advanced Knowledge Consulting will be present, but this time as Platinum […]
Fast Closing: how to trace the correct business routes around it
“Nothing is built on stone; everything is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.” (Jorge Luis Borges) The highly dynamic market environment and the rapid evolution of technology now have a constant impact on the transformation needs of business processes in companies. Although this context is extremely variable and […]
Fast Closing and ERP: is it time to rethink boundaries?
quickly understand current phenomena and make timely and correct decisions. The ability, therefore, to have reliable information in a tight timeframe becomes a crucial aspect of business life, and shortening the timeframe for reporting results (so-called fast closing) can be the answer to this need, provided that the reliability of the data on the basis […]
Are integration and TCO really two sides of the same coin?
One of the most classic views of the systems supporting the finance area of a company is like the one you see below, developed on three levels. Often, analyzing the individual layers we find a heterogeneity of vendors linked to decision-making policies that are not always consistent with the minimization of the Total Cost of […]
S&OP Planning: (inside) there is also Operations Planning
I often feel that the definition of a S&OP (sales and operations planning) process appears to be a bit too skewed toward the initial phase: sales planning. As you go down the organizational chain (outbound logistics, demand plan, warehouse plan, production plan, purchasing plan, inbound logistics, …) it seems that the process loses pieces, the […]
CIO and CFO: the secret to a successful collaboration
Collaboration between CIO and CFO has become an indispensable factor in achieving business goals. In recent years, due in part to the Covid-19 pandemic, business processes, especially in the Finance department, have been accelerating technologically at a much faster pace than in the past, and this has inevitably forced a revisiting of them. In this […]