Board
Board
In a nutshell
Many companies today still plan in “silos” rather than across departments. Board helps bring financial planning, the supply chain, sales, and other business units together on a single platform, enabling better decision-making.
Board is an agentic planning platform for integrated enterprise planning, analysis, and performance management. The platform combines financial planning, operational planning, forecasting, simulation, reporting, and analytics on a common technological foundation. The goal is to bring together finance and business units on a unified data foundation and make decisions faster, more transparent, and more informed.
Unlike isolated, specialized solutions, Board enables the integration of FP&A, supply chain planning, S&OP, commercial planning, HR planning, and other planning processes within a single platform.
Why is Board relevant?
Many companies today use a wide variety of different systems for planning, reporting, and analysis. Financial planning may take place in one solution, supply chain planning in another, while forecasts and management reports are created in Excel. This results in data disconnects, inconsistencies, and a significant amount of effort required for reconciliation.
Board takes a different approach. The platform was developed specifically for integrated enterprise planning and combines financial and operational planning on a common technological foundation. This enables companies not only to optimize individual planning areas but also to provide transparency into the interrelationships between sales, the supply chain, production, human resources, and finance.
This is particularly relevant in the context of xP&A (Extended Planning & Analytics). Today, companies want to know how changes in sales, supply chains, or raw material prices will affect revenue, earnings, or liquidity. Board enables precisely this end-to-end view and also supports forecasting, scenario planning, and simulation.
With the latest developments in AI and continuous planning, Board is expanding this approach to include forecasting methods, external data sources, and AI-powered planning scenarios. The goal is continuous and adaptive business planning rather than static annual planning cycles.
How does celver AG provide support?
For many years, celver AG has been one of the leading board partners in the German-speaking world and has the largest team of board consultants in the DACH market. The company focuses on integrated xP&A, FP&A, and performance management solutions.
celver AG supports its customers throughout the entire lifecycle of a planning solution: from technical conceptualization through process design and software selection to implementation, integration, training, and operation of the solution.
Typical questions from our customers include:
- How can financial and operational planning be better integrated?
- How can S&OP, demand planning, and FP&A be integrated into a single platform?
- Which planning processes should be harmonized?
- How can forecasts and scenario analyses be accelerated?
- What role do AI and simulation play in business planning?
- How can you get started with xP&A without a multi-year transformation project?
A particular focus is placed on developing planning processes that make sense from a technical standpoint. Software alone does not enable integrated planning. What matters most is the combination of methodology, processes, data models, and technology. This is precisely where celver has been supporting companies across a wide range of industries for over 25 years.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. In addition to FP&A, Board also supports supply chain planning, S&OP, HR planning, commercial planning, and other planning processes on a single platform.
While BI tools focus primarily on reporting and analysis, Board combines analysis, planning, forecasting, simulation, and workflow management within a single integrated solution.
Board is used across a wide range of industries and is particularly well-suited for companies that want to integrate financial and operational planning and harmonize their management processes. The platform is used by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide.
Continuous planning refers to an approach in which plans and forecasts are continuously updated based on new internal and external information. The goal is to be able to respond more quickly to changes and make more informed decisions.
