• Insights on Profitability and Performance Management – Controlling & Metrics
    (10/22/2020) by André Almeida - This is the seventh of a series of LinkedIn posts where Stampa & Partners answers the question: "How efficiently can you track the profitability and cost management of your services and operations?". Previous posts are available in our Blog and LinkedIn pages. SAP PAPM is a powerful and flexible solution that can empower users to build up models that support business decisions. You can use this tool for several uses which can increase significantly the ROI of this implementation.  Controlling PAPM can be used for project-based planning and controlling for different types of activities and businesses. For example, for constructing companies, it… Read More
  • Insights on Profitability and Cost Management – Use Cases
    (10/15/2020) by André Almeida - This is the sixth of a series of LinkedIn posts where Stampa & Partners answers the question: "How efficiently can you track the profitability and cost management of your services and operations?". Previous posts are available in our Blog and LinkedIn pages.   SAP PAPM is a powerful and flexible solution that can empower users to build up models that support business decisions. You can use this tool for several uses which can increase significantly the ROI of this implementation. Examples: Cross Industry Profitability PAPM enables users to optimize profitability by providing deep insights into granular revenue and cost information at… Read More
  • Case study – The results of cost allocation and monitoring
    (10/8/2020) by André Almeida - This is the fifth of a series of LinkedIn posts where Stampa & Partners answers the question:"How efficiently can you track the profitability and cost management of your services and operations?". Previous posts are available in our Blog and LinkedIn pages.   In previous post we present the second phase of the process to setup MS’s HQ cost allocation, i.e. processing units. In this post we will present the results. Results The first allocation round presented the distribution of HQ’s Infrastructure costs which amount to circa CHF 20m. The allocation of Infrastructure cost will use the proportion of the chosen… Read More
  • Processing inputs in SAP Profitability and Performance Management
    (10/1/2020) by André Almeida - This is the fourth of a series of LinkedIn posts where Stampa & Partners answers the question: "How efficiently can you track the profitability and cost management of your services and operations?". Previous posts are available in our Blog and LinkedIn pages. In previous post we present the first phase of the process to setup MS’s HQ cost allocation, i.e. adding and aggregating units. In this post we will cover the second phase, processing inputs. Process ⇒ Phase 2 - Processing inputs With the aggregation concluded, MS will now process this information: MS creates a processing functions structure for each… Read More