SimpleFi Solutions offers the below pre-packaged solution to get you started with CapEx Planning. We offer both quick start programs and small-to-medium pre-packaged managed implementations. Reach out to [email protected] for more information.
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Business Problem and Proposed Solution
- Manual (Excel based) reporting for CapEx Planning including:
- Capital Project origination and approval
- Cash projections
- Depreciation calcs for forecasts and plans
- Variance commentary
- Project version control confusion
- Hard to collect and explain variance commentary
- Inflexible and prone to error (broken links, broken formulas)
- Solve With: SimpleFi’s prepackaged solution for CapEx Planning
- Eliminate overhead, Drive accountability and improve transparency
WORKING CAPITAL PLAN
- Set project drivers and assumptions
- Schedule cash outflows
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PROJECT PLANNING
- Create new projects within the application
- Review and approve projects
- Forecast projected capital expenditures
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CAPEX PLANNING; AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS INCLUDING DEPRECIATION
- Depreciation & Amortization
- Net Present Value
- Internal Rate of Return
- Cash Flow
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ANALYTICS AND REPORTING
- Track investment spend across departments
- Generate P&L forecast based on project drivers
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Solution Goals – CapEx Planning
- Streamline capture and analysis of proposed CapEx projects
- Perform analysis on cash needs and P&L impact of new projects
- Push the results of approved CapEx spending and related expenses to your current consolidated forecast and planning processes
- Provide print ready, drillable comparison reports for both executive reporting, cash availability insights, and business unit analytics
- Ability to drill to detail – i.e., asset class, asset, project
- Collect project commentary automatically
- Project Metrics (typical):
- Reduce efforts by 60% to track, analyze, and forecast CapEx (Excel)
- Instant insight into drivers of Capital Spend to ensure alignment with company strategy
- Industries: Mfg, Distribution, Wholesale, Retail, etc.
CapEx Planning accelerator includes the following assets
- Standard templates for your planning process including: project planning, asset / depreciation planning, working capital planning, and work flow management
- Packaged script calculations
- Depreciation projections
- Residual Book Value
- Variance calculation
- Data Action to trigger calculation
- Reporting
- CapEx by Asset Class
- CapEx by Project
- Variance Analysis
- Planning process flow
- Discounted Cash Flow