PCS News
SAP Lean Enterprise Summit
PCS Consulting presented to a group of 120 Lean Manufacturing practitioners at the July 22-23 SAP Lean Enterprise Summit held at SAP Americas Headquarters in Newtown Square, PA. The event featured thought-leaders and customer sessions on Lean Manufacturing and Lean Accounting.
New Lean Accounting Solution
PCS Consulting and SAP partner to develop a Lean Accounting solution with the Profitability and Cost Management software provided by Business Objects.
Activity Based Prototyping Software
PCS provides clients option to design and build working activity based costing prototype with FREE ABC Software prior to implementing more comprehensive and expensive commercial ABC software.
OneEighty 180 Newsletter
PCS Consulting presents the One Eighty 180 Newsletter, published by PCS Alliance Partner John Miller. Written for those in the Performance and Cost Management community.
Other News
Industry News
Forrester Wave™ BI Vendors Q3 08
SAP Business Objects and IBM Cognos maintain leadership positions in Enterprise BI, while Oracle and SAS Institute also move into leadership positions. Microsoft and others, closely follow.
Lean Accounting Presentations
David Strothmann and Brian Maskell present “Lean Management: Measuring Value-Stream Performance with Lean Accounting” at the SAP May 08 Sapphire Conference and July Industry Week webinar. Access Video, Audio, Slides.
Acorn “Safe Harbor” Program
Acorn Systems Announces a “Safe Harbor” Migration and Trade-in Program for Companies using SAS' Oros or SAP Business Objects' Metify Activity-Based Costing Software.
Acorn Announces Industry Solutions
Acorn launches new pre-packaged cost and profitability management solutions designed for customers in Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Distribution and Logistics.
Upcoming Events
Reporting & BI with SAP / BOBJ
Upcoming Reporting & Business Intelligence with SAP and Business Objects seminars in three locations:
• Chicago July 21-23
• Philadelphia Aug 18-20
• Orlando Oct 27-29
• Copenhagen, Denmark Jan 19-21
The CFO Technology Summit 2008
CFO.com sponsors annual Technology Summit, September 7-9, 2008, Grand Hyatt San Francisco. Attend to gain latest insights into how today's tools and techniques can reduce decision-making complexity and jumpstart growth.
Lean Accounting Summit 08
4th Annual Lean Accounting Summit to be held in Las Vega Sept. 17-18, 2008. David Strothmann of SAP presents case study highlighting the Lean Accounting solution developed with PCS Consulting.
Performance Conference 08
Mark Stevens of PCS Consulting is presenting "Understanding Customer Profitability for Improved Financial Performance" at The Performance Conference, in Las Vegas, October 20–22, 2008.
Future Events
$250 Million Plant of $5 Billion Bearing Manufacturer Leverages Activity Based Costing for Product Profitability.
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