Capital Portfolio Planning (CPP)

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ESTABLISH A REPEATABLE CAPITAL PROGRAMMING PROCESS

Leverage Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Planning to deploy a full lifecycle process from capital request to in-service asset, streamlining the management of large capital project portfolios, and eliminate the pain of administering paper, Excel, and Word-based capital request, prioritization, & approval processes. Alithya’s Capital Portfolio Planning solution is proven across multiple implementations.

Prescriptive & Proven Process

Born from multiple implementations across Healthcare, Higher-Ed, Transportation, and Manufacturing, our solution provides a prescriptive capital request through in-service asset process.

One Leading EPM Platform

Leverages the leading SaaS Cloud Planning platform, Oracle EPM Planning, to provide a modern, interactive, and scalable solution.

Minimize Operational Risk

Integrates with most Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) procure-to-pay processes to ensure capital budgets are not overspent while allowing ongoing management of capital project budgets throughout the year.

Continual Strategic Evaluation

Provide department owners with an analytic sandbox to evaluate capital request backlog throughout the year, facilitating simplified approval submission during the planning season.

One of the cool things about Alithya Capital Portfolio Planning (CPP) is that business area owners can enter capital requests throughout the year—not just once a year—and by the time we get to the budgeting season, it’s a seamless process.

Automate the capital lifecycle process

Shorten the time it takes to address the challenges of capital portfolio planning.

Request Prioritize Fund Approve Execute

Request

Submit routine, strategic, and emergency capital requests
Submit requests for on-going capital projects: funding change, project closure, and project cancellation
Define one, organization-wide request mechanism
Attach and link supporting documentation

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Prioritize

Streamline the annual submission process to allow individual departments & functions to define capital needs throughout the year
Create request portfolios by department, function, or funding source
Allow interested functions to assess requests early in the process (e.g. IT, Facilities, or Purchasing)

Fund

Understand short- and long-term capital funding needs
Fund initiatives with organization-specific sources such as bonds, grants, fees, or endowments
Ensure funding applied to individual initiatives meets source-of-capital restrictions & covenants

Approve

Configure workflow with approval paths for emergency, routine, and strategic requests
Capture approval commentary
Assign an approved budget
Inform Project Management, Accounts Payable, and other systems of a newly approved capital initiative

Execute

Create change requests for additional funding as needed
Monitor capital portfolio health for ongoing and future initiatives
Close initiatives and release the remaining capital
For multi-year projects, create budget carry-forward requests

Explore Capital Portfolio Planning

Increase the value of capital expenditures, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.

Business Solution Features:

Prescriptive Business Process
Born from multiple implementations across industries

Embedded leading practices from capital request, prioritization, approval

Capture capital requests from functional areas including justification, pro-forma operating impacts, return on investment, and attachments

Create capital project budgets from approved capital requests

Set and manage overall capital budgets by functional area including allowances, master-facilities plans, and strategic goals

Send approved capital budgets to ERP Procure-to-pay for commitment control

Monitor project health by loading PO commitments & invoices paid from AP system

Identify capital projects nearing completion and streamline the asset creation in fixed assets ledger
Strategic Capital Management
Provide functional areas a sandbox to continually manage their capital investment roadmap

Identify funding sources related to various capital investments – debt, operations, endowments, and grants

Perform sensitivity analysis by grouping different sets of capital investment requests into portfolios to understand how they would impact the organization’s capital structure

Integrates with Oracle EPM Strategic Modeling to take capital portfolio investment requirements and model the long-term impact to the organization’s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow

Understand whether the organization is funding capital projects at the right investment level and capital project mix
Integrates with Oracle EPM Planning, Financials, Capital, & Projects
Alithya’s Capital Portfolio Planning handles the capital request to capital budget setting process, including managing the budget of in-flight capital projects

Understand the financial statement impacts of placing capital assets into service from integration with Oracle EPM capital

Allow project managers to manage the financials of in-flight capital projects via integration with Oracle EPM projects

Align staffing to Capital Projects through integration with Oracle EPM Workforce
Built Upon Oracle EPM Planning
Leading SaaS based Planning platform according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

Prescriptive, yet tailorable, dimensional model

Input forms for requests and approvals

Review forms & dashboards to monitor request and project portfolios

Print-quality (PDF) reporting for approved capital program

Workflow to capture request approvals

Data integrations

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