CFOEd®: A BLENDED HANDS-ON PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SHOWING THE REAL VALUE OF YOUR SOLUTIONS
Offered by FinListics® Solutions

The current business climate is changing at an astounding pace. And with rapid change comes enormous challenge - including growing pressures on profitability and sales growth. To meet today's and tomorrow's challenges, companies need to explore new solutions in as a key to providing competitive returns to investors. Yet these solutions require both the identification of performance trends and gaps, and proof of their financial merit.

The key takeaway is understanding how the decisions that I make can affect the financial situation of the company. I can think at least of three different initiatives that I can influence to better improve our decision making."

All in all, professionals haven't had an easy-to-use system to help them comprehend much less show the impact of their solutions on the bottom line. And without the ability to articulate in financial terms, they couldn't readily communicate the true value of their solutions. Until now.

Answering this critical need, FinListics® Solutions is proud to offer the innovative CFOEd®. A blended hands-on performance management system, it helps professionals show the real value of solutions -- improving profitability, increasing capital utilization and growing sales. How? By delivering interactive just-in-time web-based learning modules, financial benchmarks for hundreds of companies and industries, facilitator-led webinars, case studies, hands-on applications templates, and much more. You see, by learning from practical applications based on real companies and utilizing proven financial analysis templates, you can quickly apply CFOED to your day-to-day activities - and solutions.

Who Benefits Most - From Beginner to Advanced

CFOEd is a must for all professionals within a company who want to better understand the value of their activities - and show the financial benefits of their solutions. Because being able to make the financial connection is priceless when competing for internal financial resources. It is also a must for technology, consulting and third-party providers. Bottom line: it helps show a solution's real financial value.

An Enterprise-Wide Approach to Showing Value

Many solutions affect financial performance throughout the enterprise. Unfortunately, much financial analysis is incomplete since it is not conducted from an enterprise-wide perspective. Decisions like modes of transportation, sourcing and replenishment are often based solely on operating expenses -- and many times not even total operating expenses -- and omit the impact on inventory, warehousing requirements and possible stock-out losses. Such analysis fails to show the real value of a solution and typically leads to non-optimal (and at times wrong) decisions. How often has your overall resources been strained as a result of a decision that only improved a single department's performance.

CFOEd shows you how and provides you with the tools to conducting analysis from an enterprise-wide perspective for dozens of real-world decisions like transportation, procurement, manufacturing warehousing, replenishment, service levels, outsourcing, IT investment, network optimization, automation and many more.

Find out which CFOEd series is right for you-

• Financial Supply Chain Management Connection On-Demand
• Selling Value
• Managing Value