Purchasing planning with WebCIS 4.0

Successful business is based on good planning. In companies, purchasing is integrated into the planning process at an early stage. WebCIS 4.0 offers a wide range of approaches:

Planning of

  • planned quantities, planned budgets, and planned cost development, planned quotas (top-down and bottom-up)
  • exchange rate and one-time effects
  • automatic creation of plan variants and simulations within scenarios at the product group or part level and for suppliers (mass data maintenance)
  • Quantity and price import as a supplement to the planning structure
  • Subdivision of planned prices into project and market effects
  • Forecast creation including deviation analysis of actual vs. planned

As part of planning, concrete measures are put in place to ensure traceability and control of budgets.
Only with the introduction of purchasing planning does purchasing controlling fulfill its function of controlling the purchasing function and is thus able to secure important contributions to results in the long term.